BOOK REVIEW

Book: Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly
Second Edition
Revised and Expanded

by: Geoffrey Boothroyd
Peter Dewhurst
Winston Knight

Picture of Book Cover

Chapters:

NOTE: As a whole, the book is very good. In particular, it is very helpful to an electronics component engineer that is taking on project responsibility to showcase their new component in a microsystem. However, it seems to me that the quantities of formulas and
finite steps "required" to cost estimate manufacture and assembly is overkill. This should
more readily be accomplished with a handful of "all-encompassing" formulas + padding factors.

1. Introduction

2. Selection of Materials and Processes

3. Product Design for Manual Assembly
EXCELLENT: provides great insight into manual assembly difficulties and efficiencies.

4. Electrical Connections and Wire Harness Assembly
VERY GOOD: provides great insight into assembly methods, sequence, and efficiencies.

5. Automatic and Robot Assembly

6. Printed Circuit Board Design for Manufacture and Assembly

7. Design for Machining
Excessive detail describing machining processes; more appropriate for a text used by students studying to be machinists;

8. Design for Injection Molding

9. Design for Sheet Metalworking

10. Design for Die Casting

11. Design for Powder Metal Processing

12. Design for Sand Casting

13. Design for Investment Casting

14. Design for Hot Forging

15. Design for Manufacture and Computer-Aided Design

-----reviewed by Johnny Baca, Sandia National Laboratories

(editor's comment: Most CPMT members have a chemistry, electrical engineering, or materials background. However, most products we get involved in depend on being designed for assembly/manufacture. We try to find books that help extend your expertise in this area as they become available.)