From 21^st – 23^rd January 2014 the 12^th Technical Meeting took place in Bucharest, Romania. It was hosted by Opto Electronica.

The meeting included the demonstration of the latest version of the DfA-tool including continuous improvements.

Another topic of the meeting was the discussion of the AMISA Methodology Guideline which gives a detailed overview about the AMISA project and the AMISA Design-for-Adaptability methodology including the DfA-Tool.

 

 

 

 

TUM also presented the AMISA objective evaluation results. The following summarizes this presentation:

 

Meeting Objective-1

Objective-1	DFA Methodology and Tool
	Designs	Products
Better cost-efficiency	Yes	Yes
Longer lifetime	Yes	Yes
Reduced cycle time	Yes	Yes
Provide more value to stakeholders	Yes	Yes

Meeting Objective-2

Objective 2	DFA Methodology & Tool
Genericity	Yes
Tailorability	Yes
Scalability	Yes
Usability	Yes
Cost-effectiveness	Yes

Meeting Objective-3

Objective-3	DFA Methodology & Tool
	Designs	Products
20% cost savings	Yes, by 19.07% (Mean)	Yes, by 15.72% (Mean)
20% cycle-time savings	Yes, by 20.08% (Mean)	Yes, by 17.44% (Mean)

Meeting Objective-4

Objective-4	DFA Methodology & Tool
	Designs	Products
25% lifespan increase	Yes, by 19.62% (Mean)	Yes, by 17.09% (Mean)

Meeting Objective-5

Objective-5	DFA Methodology & Tool
Decrease in usage of natural resources and energy consumption	Yes
Decrease in pollution and by-product waste	(Weak) Yes

In Summary

1. Designs and products developed using DFA methodology and tool satisfies most of the objectives as formulated in the AMISA proposal.

 

2. Designs and products developed using the DFA methodology and tool are:

• Adaptable
• Higher cost-efficiency
• Longer lifespan
• Shorter cycle-time
• Lower cost
• Consume lesser energy and natural resources in their manufacturing
• Cause lesser pollution and emit lesser by-product wastes

 

3. DFA methodology and tool are:

• Generic
• Scalable
• Tailorable
• Usable
• Cost-effective

 

 

 

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