He was the speaker for the HP Executive Seminars on Concurrent Product/Process Design, Mechanical CAD Design and Test and the Motorola Six Sigma Institute. He worked for 22 years in high technology companies developing new products and state of the art manufacturing technologies. Shina is an international consultant, trainer and seminar provider on Project Management, Quality methods in Design and Manufacturing, Six Sigma and DoE as well as Technology Supply Chains, Product Design and Development l and Electronics Manufacturing, Test and Automation. He contributed two chapters and over 100 technical publications in his fields of research.ĭr. He is the author of several best-selling books on Concurrent Engineering, Six Sigma, Green Design and Engineering Project Management. The consortium has published over 40 papers some translated into Asian languages and won a regional EPA environmental Merit Award for business category in May 2006. It is funded by TURI, EPA, NSF and the member companies. The consortium is actively researching, testing and evaluating materials and processes for lead-free and RoHS compliance, and converting to Nano technology. He is the founder of the New England Lead Free Consortium, with of over 30 contributing companies which are engaged in electronics products and supply chain since its inception in 1999. He is a past chairman of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Robotics/FMS and a founding member of the Massachusetts Quality Award. He is the coordinator of the Design and Manufacturing Certificate, the Quality Engineering Certificate, the ME senior Capstone Projects and COOP education for the College of Engineering at UML. Shina, P.h.D., P.E., is the professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and has previously lectured at University of Pennsylvania's EXMSE Program and at the University of California Irvine. This book should be of interest to design, production, process and manufacturing engineers in the electronics industry electronic engineering and industrial technology graduate students, engineering graduate students. The book goes beyond basic DFM, bringing in methods from just-in-time, statistical process control, and computer integrated manufacturing, and illustrating the concepts with extensive industrial examples and case studies. This book, derived from Shina's popular NEPCON seminars, introduces and familiarize design, production, quality, and processing engineers, and their managers, to DFM concepts, and how they can be most effectively applied to electronics manufacturing.

As the US electronics industry struggles to regain market share from Japan and Europe, these issues will become particularly critical.

Design for manufacture (DFM) has become a crucial component of global competitiveness in terms of achieving high quality control and low cost products, as well as shortening new product introduction cycles.

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