Design for Inspection: The Key to Lower Cost and Higher Profit Margins

More OEMs than ever before are adopting the concept of design for manufacturability (DFM). However, most don’t realize that inspection can represent 20–40 percent or more of their final product cost. If they are not looking at Design for Inspection (DFI) in early product design stages and are not involving their contract manufacturer in the process, this can represent a huge buried cost.