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Customer Requirements,

Data Standards

e-CAD data input

CAM / DFMs/w package

Run Design for Manufacturability

Analysis and review results

Do manufacturability

issues exist?

Document Issues in the DFM report

Use principles to Identify

viable solutions

Yes

No

Prototype New

Component solutions for ES

Build ES Prototypes(w/ Mfg. Eng.

at build)

Identify Contradictions

Check DFM violations

against customer Product cost and

Performancerequirements

Low

Risk

Med & High Risk

ReviewManufacturingPerformance

(w/ mfg floor feedback)

Legend: ES = Engineering SystemCAM = Computer Automated ManufacturingDFM = Design for Manufacturability

Release Product for

High Volume Mfg

DFM Tool as a Virtual Prototyping Tool

Continue NPIBuilds forStatistical

significance

Root cause for low yield

High

Yield

Trends of ES EvolutionAnalysis

S-CurveAnalysis

Low Yield

Problem solved with standard

Engineering approach

No

Yes

DfIM Flow

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