DFX Services
Reduce overall product cost and improve quality with Design for Excellence (DFX) Services. NEOTech provides DFX reviews to identify issues that will impact product cost, quality, and delivery during the design process and makes recommendations for design improvement. Connecting NEOTech into your design process enables us to help integrate our manufacturing and supply chain expertise early at the design stage.
Engineering Design for Manufacturing (DFM) analysis uses proven techniques to review your PCBA designs and identify areas of improvement that remove potential failures, reduce fall-out, increase reliability, and ultimately improve manufacturability. Our engineers will review PCBA layer and layer density for opportunities for cost savings through layer count reduction and component consolidation opportunities, as well as general process ability. Post build reviews will be conducted following each production cycle – reviewing process parameters, yield, yield improvements, and production plans creating manufacturing process changes or recommended design changes to enhance yield and decrease product cost.
Through a Design for Test (DFT) review, product improvements are made to optimize test access and enhance the test strategy for the best fit of test solutions. In-Circuit Test (ICT) is generally used for the detection of manufacturing process defects at the board level. Typical defects found are wrong component populated, wrong orientation of the component, or missing component. Functional Test is offered to simulate the end functional application and environment of the product. Utilizing the powerful analysis tool Test Wise, our engineers can ascertain if the design has the proper test coverage to fulfill test strategy requirements.
NEOTech works with customers to unlock value through our Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VA/VE) process. VAVE is a continuous improvement strategy in the areas of Design for Manufacturing, Design for Test, Quality Analysis, and Design for Procurement (Supply Chain). NEOTech’s analysis provides the customer a value-add service by optimizing design specifications for component life cycles, supplier risks, and processes among other items. This provides our customers a way to simplify their PCBA design, allowing for lower overall costs and keeping your product competitive in the marketplace.
Our Value Engineering Team — comprised of component, manufacturing, process, and test engineers — address VAVE in:
- Life cycle analysis
- Supplier selection
- Pipeline risk
- Test enhancements
- Manufacturing
- Scrap causes
- Quality improvement
VAVE Capabilities:
- PCBA and Subsystem design/ layout
- Robust engineering toolsets for design for procurement (DFP), design for manufacturability (DFM), and design for test (DFT)
- Value Engineering workshops
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) toolsets
- Concurrent Engineering support
- Process technology roadmaps – leading edge processing technologies
- Design proof-of-concept analysis