Bradford Goldense

The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s, and it did not really blossom until the 1980s. The road to high volume: Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford, co-creators of the assembly-line process of manufacturing, began tearing apart the centuries-old Master-Apprentice Model as the Model A was being designed in 1903.

There are two fundamental categories of post-launch reviews. The first we shall call “Team Self-Assessment Project Reviews.” These reviews are primarily for product developers to explore their lessons learned from working together on a project that has just completed.

The farewell "Goldense On R&D-Product Development" column. Bradford Goldense | May 15, 2019 This is the final monthly column I'll be writing for Machine Design. For 72 consecutive months, I've done my best to pen something of value for MD readers. Machine Design's readership spans many demographics and engineering cultures, from those starting-out their careers to those closing-them out, from big corporations to makers in their garages. What do we all have in common?