Regardless if you are producing your own products or sub-contracting your build you need to consider design for manufacture (DFM) and the value of effective new product introduction (NPI) guidelines. Design review at the layout stage can save money and produce a better more easily producible product. Regardless if you are building 10 or a million, the rules and guidelines are the same. Now with the environment on everyone's agenda what should an environmentally friendly product look like and what does a design engineer need to consider? DFM and Design for the Environment (DFE) are not mutually exclusive.

This is an ideal opportunity to review your ideas and concepts with speakers and consider

• New prototype designs or current products
• Latest component packaging requirements
• PCB substrate requirements
• Typical manufacturing and assembly costs

Other content to be covered at the seminar includes

• Standard and advanced PCB Layout and Design Rules
• Automatic design checking
• Creating a checklist for your design reviews
• New Product Introduction (NPI) Report Package
• Cost and standard times for assembly
• Material and equipment costs for assembly
• Common PCB design faults impact on fabrication
• Common PCB design faults impact on assembly yields

The seminar and tabletop exhibition are to be held Tuesday 30th January 2007 at The Oxfordshire, Thame, Oxfordshire. Reserve your place: www.smartgroup.org/pdf/design2007.pdf