Westinghouse Recognized for DFMA Support

By DE Editors

Westinghouse Electric Company received the "Distinguished DFMA Supporter of the Year Award" at the 2012 International Forum on Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) held in Providence, R.I. Global director of supplier manufacturing and value engineering (SM&VE) Steven King accepted the award on behalf of the global Westinghouse SM&VE team.
 
"The vision, discipline and results shown by Westinghouse in closely coupling Value Engineering with DFMA are exceptional," said John Gilligan, president of Boothroyd Dewhurst. "The efforts of the SM&VE team made a significant impact for their company and its customers in a short amount of time. They have provided others with a textbook example for managing change and continuous improvement."
 
Launched in 2010, with a mandate to expand the role of VE into analytical costing, the SM&VE group used DFMA software and methods to more effectively gauge product cost and complexity beginning as early as the conceptual stage of design.
 
DFMA software guides engineers to assess the structural efficiency of their products and then reduce assembly cost by consolidating individual parts into multifunctional designs. Product development teams can examine competing materials and processes and quantitatively judge the cost trade-offs of producing new designs or improving existing products, according to the company.

For more information, visit Boothroyd Dewhurst.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.