First Steps Toward Production

The first part of the book presents foundation concepts and design methodologies to structure the product development cycle. The remainder of the text looks at critical details needed to implement the design methodology outlined in Chapter 5 and move the product into production. This chapter focuses on ideas intended to create more producible designs. Of particular interest is the contention that a component’s mating part provides the design of the component’s fixture and gage. In fact, in many cases the mating part is an exact image of an ideal tool or gage.