| |APRIL 20229the Industry 4.0 movement which optimizes workflow and analytics.Schemes by Govt. of India: The Indian Govt's initiatives like Make in India, Promotion of Manufacturing of Electronic Components & Semiconductors (SPECS), Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI), and Electronic Manufacturing Clus-ters (EMC) have boosted Indian-Electronics Manufacturing.2. THE DESIGN PHASE IN ENCLOSURE MANUFACTURING IS A CRUCIAL PART OF THE ENTIRE PROCESS. IT GIVES A BLUEPRINT TO THE FINAL PRODUCT. HOWEVER, PROBLEMS LIKE ASSUMPTION, MISMANAGE-MENT OF DEPENDENCIES, AND A LOT MORE OFTEN HAMPER THE TOTAL OUTPUT. WHAT SHOULD BE THE APPROACH OF THE MANUFACTURERS IN THE DESIGNING STAGE? HOW THE PROBLEMS CAN BE OVERCOME?For a product to be commercially successful, there are two core points ­ design and functional characteristics. Design is what attracts the customers to buy a product, and to de-sign a product is not that easy, as the manufacturing feasi-bility has a key role in it. Most players in the market suffer because of this, as the most aesthetic design may lead to the incalculable issues. As a design and manufacturing compa-ny, we work in two ways. Customers prefer us for the design and manufacturing, or they'll have the design developed at their end or done by someone else. Most designs that we re-ceive from the client had potential DFM issues or that they are expensive to manufacture. The reason is that most of them know how to design and don't know how to design for manufacturing.When getting started with a project, we get to know the complete details of the device like application, usage, target customers, environment and other aspects. We send-out an input sheet which will request for all the details, includ-ing the finish of the product, which is a potential thing for the manufacturing. Our phases start with ideation, where we share different product aesthetics in the form of hand sketches. This will give an idea to the customer of how the product will look like. This will save time and can capture the customer's expectation. Once the shape is finalized, then
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