Product design engineers today face so many pressures associated with cost and turn-around time, that manufacturing considerations sometimes end up on the back burner. MD+DI recently interviewed three ...

A by-product of continually shrinking process geometries is a loss of control in the predictability of a manufactured circuit. This manifests itself in various ways, ranging from variabilities in ...

The automotive industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation. Activity is driven by IT operations, data strategy, customer experience management, distributed ecosystems, and advances in computing ...

MEMS devices require a clear design-for-manufacturability strategy that establishes concurrent-design principles through a common CAD framework. Detailed process and material-property characterization ...

Aggressive ground rule changes continue to increase the complexity of semiconductor technology. The requirements for designs, processes, equipment, and facilities all grow in sophistication from ...

One of the major challenges with how designers and engineers consider DFM is a lack of transparency into the machine shops and manufacturing processes themselves. By building a holistic approach to ...

Yield and cost have always been critical factors for both manufacturers and designers of semiconductor products. Meeting yield and product cost targets is a continuous challenge, due to new device ...

Yield and cost have always been critical factors for both manufacturers and designers of semiconductor products. It is a continuous challenge to meet targets of both yield and cost, due to new device ...

A sustainability engineer explains how she applies design for manufacturability methodology to low-resource ventures. As Machine Design’s content lead, Rehana Begg is tasked with elevating the voice ...