Dr. Yong Hoon Lee and his collaborators published an article titled “Generation and enforcement of process-driven manufacturability constraints: A survey of methods and perspectives for product design” in the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

Albert Patterson, Yong Hoon Lee and James T. Allison, “Generation and enforcement of process-driven manufacturability constraints: A survey of methods and perspectives for product design”, Journal of Mechanical Design, 143(11), April 2021, pp. 110801. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]  [google]

Abstract

Design-for-manufacturing (DFM) concepts have traditionally focused on design simplification; this is highly effective for relatively simple, mass-produced products, but tends to be too restrictive for more complex designs. Effort in recent decades has focused on creating methods for generating and imposing specific, process-derived technical manufacturability constraints for some common problems. This paper presents an overview of the problem and its design implications, a discussion of the nature of the manufacturability constraints, and a survey of the existing approaches and methods for generating/enforcing the minimally-restrictive manufacturability constraints within several design domains. Five major design perspectives or viewpoints were included in the study, including the system design (top-down), product/component design (bottom-up), the manufacturing process-dominant case (product/component design under a specific process), the part-redesign perspective, and sustainability perspective. Manufacturability constraints within four design levels or scales were explored as well, ranging from macro-scale to sub-micro-scale design. Very little previous work was found in many areas, but it is clear from the existing literature that the problem and a general solution to it are very important to explore further in future DFM efforts.