2024 International Forum on
Design for Manufacture and Assembly

As a valued DFMA practitioner, you are cordially invited to submit a paper and present at this event on June 18-19, 2024 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Providence/Warwick RI.

The goal of this conference is to review DFMA implementation and integration, focusing on the challenges, procedural and technological innovations, and financial rewards brought forth as a result. This conference is ideal for open discussion among peers regarding the issues facing design, manufacture, purchasing and business operations professionals today. With the shared goals of seeking to optimize productivity and minimize costs through the utilization of DFMA, we seek highly qualified professionals to document and present their experiences. 

From attendees' responses to our previous conferences, we know that our audience is particularly interested in learning about successes in applying DFMA to the design of new products, benchmarking, and purchasing applications. Furthermore, areas for discussion may include descriptions of your experience in changing the product design practices and/or corporate culture to more fully implement DFMA into daily operations, cross-functional teamwork and overall strategic planning.

DFMA topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Studies of product design, from concept to production
• Case studies on the use of DFMA during early product definition and concept development
• Successes in supplier negotiation, or cost reductions at the piece part level through changes in manufacturing process and material combinations
• Implementation of concurrent engineering tools
• Ways in which the use of DFMA measurably reduced or avoided overhead costs for your company
• Integrating DFMA into PLM and other corporate systems

Attendees wish to learn from your experiences and are especially appreciative when these deal with overcoming real-world challenges in the current manufacturing and business environment. If you would be interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract by March 14, 2024. Notification of speaker selection will be sent in April 2024.