Analysis on laserjet printer using design for manufacture and assembly

This paper shows a detailed study to investigate the Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) method to improve the product design process. Through the applied DFMA, the production cost of manufacturing and assembly can be reduced as well as improving the efficiency of laser jet printer. Laser jet printer is a commonly used in our daily lives. Using DFMA method in making laser jet printer is becoming and attractive prospect in satisfying the basic need for human that search for a good product and price. Laser jet printer was selected as to reduce prices in markets where the part count is reduced by DFMA method. Lack of analysis about DFMA on laser jet printer which limits the sources to the student design to understand for the complex product or product with large number of components. The current design of laser jet printer had analyzed the design for manufacture and assembly to get the design efficiency and to reduce parts as well as the cost of production and manufacturing time. Then, come out with some improvement (redesign) of the design in an efficient way. The main objective of this project is to analysis design efficiency of the current design of laser jet printer. This project will compare the product design by using DFMA method namely Boothroyd-Dewhurst. CAD software which is CATIA V5R20 has been used for the proposed new design.