Renaud, Paul, and Adrian are talking about assembly and checking fixtures. You'll learn what they are, how they work, and when to work on designing them.
If improving the speed, consistency, and quality of your products during mass production is important to you, as well as reducing costs, then you need to consider implementing fixtures in production to spur these improvements.
The same can be said for checking quality, too, as you'll see how in-line checking fixtures help you to avoid problems during production that can result in defective products creeping through.
Show Sections
00:00 - Greetings and introducing the topic: What happens if you have repeated quality issues from your manufacturing supplier?
01:17 - What are assembly fixtures? (+ examples).
11:00 - Benefits of assembly fixtures.
11:37 - Fixtures' role in mistake-proofing.
16:04 - Why good product design must include manufacturing process design.
20:24 - The timeline of when to work on process engineering and fixtures.
22:50 - Are fixtures hard to build and what materials can be used?
23:37 - Who pays for and owns the fixtures?
26:50 - What are checking fixtures (used for QC)?
27:59 - Examples of checking fixtures.
30:52 - How to decide where and how you need to be checking quality during production.
36:20 - The ROI of using fixtures.
38:15 - Why pilot runs are helpful for identifying where fixtures are needed.
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