HKSTP TecONE seminar on Common Mistakes that Derail your Design for Manufacturing

The TecONE seminar named “Common Mistakes that Derail your Design for Manufacturing” was held on 28^th March 2018 in Science Park.  The seminar aimed to share the limitations and challenges for a design & manufacturing firm and tips to improve the efficiency of production process; as well as, providing opportunities to share ideas, exchange business leads and to meet your potential business partners.  Before the talk, I took a photo with speaker and participants.

(Left: Mr. Jimmy Chung (GM, Skytech Creations Ltd.), Mr. Jack Wong (Director, Business Development, Zetakey Solutions), Mr. Samuel Chui (Manager, Incubation Programmes, HKSTP) and I)

Mr. Jimmy Chung (GM, Skytech Creations Ltd.) was our guest speaker and his topic was “Design for Manufacturability (DFM)”.  Firstly Jimmy introduced his company which was a Design House and established in 2003.  And he setup R&D center in HKSTP in 2017. 

Then he explained DFM which aimed to facilitate the manufacturing process, designing products and allow potential problems to be fixed during design phase so as to reduce manufacturing cost and easy to manufacture.

He shared that the most important thing was to understand the user and their expectation.  He would asked three questions and they were “Who are you looking for?” “Easy to produces?” and “Easy to machine?”.  Understanding the user would affect the design direction.  Moreover, he added to understand the user through deep research involving gender, age group, disability, when to use the product and how to use it, etc.  

Then he discussed factors affected the manufacturability such as “Simple is the Best” that design projects in a friendly and simple sharp, using common parts and reducing the assemble parts, easily machined material, as well as, simplify the tooling. 

After that we discussed the material choose and he reminded us that some famous brand name material was not easy to buy and they were restricted to specific customer only.  Lastly, he demonstrated two cases to explain common mistakes.

During the discussion session, each participated incubatees shared their business and networking at the end.

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Reference:

HKSTP - http://www.hkstp.org

TecONE - http://tecone.hkstp.org/t1_web/