The price of the final product can be significantly influenced by including manufacturing aspects from the very beginning of the product design. Design for Manufacturing (DFM) aims to manufacture a product quickly, cheaply and to a high quality standard, so that the manufacturability of the product has taken into account all the different factors that affect it. This has a major impact on competitiveness.
Research areas
- Improving manufacturability by combining product and production planning
- Increasing the autonomy of manufacturing processes
- Unmanned manufacturing
Infrastructure
The Manufacturing Engineering research group has access to machinery and equipment comparable to a modern machine shop. The research equipment is primarily intended for research into the manufacture of sheet metal products and the basic processes of metal cutting.
Staff
Mikael Ollikainen
Harri Eskelinen
Amir Togiani
Sami Matthews
Sara Bazaz, PhD Student
LUT School of Energy Systems
sara.bazaz@student.lut.fi