Multi-use Parts — DM3 Consulting

We hear a lot about creating parts for multi-use these days, but I don’t see it practiced nearly often enough. Rather, custom approaches are used all-too-often in the design of parts that could be classified as “common” and built in such a way to be employable in related or companion products.

A great and easy to understand example of this is illustrated below. Building three bottles? Well…make the cap modular/standardized…and fire only one mold (for that cap). Seems a no-brainer…but as you get into the weeds of a project with multiple components (and with one DFM/DFA rule being to “work to reduce the number of parts”), things can get less clear. yet keeping this rule of thumb in mind can save a tremendous amount of time and money…on both the primary and future project(s).

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