Design for Manufacturing Forum | Design-driven Manufacturing Transformation | Connecting product developers, industrial designers, engineers and manufacturers for a more decentralized, leaner manufacturing ecosystem

Toronto | June 2016

'The speed of information flows is key to speeding up the product development process'

more in Industrial Design Design + Mfg Software Digital Transformation

'Everything in design and manufacturing is a graph' | London, March 2018

'You're done when there aren't any more problems' | Toronto, October 2019

Shadow Robot builds hands for robots | London, December 2017

'Manufacturers want to work more closely with their customers' | London, July 2018

Dystil Racing intended to make 3D printed race parts for motorcycles | Toronto, September 2019

'We involve potential manufacturers in optimizing the design' | London, June 2018

Design for Manufacturing Summit #23
Birmingham | TBD
October 22, 2020

Design for Manufacturing Summit #27
Toronto | Jam Factory
September 17, 2020

Design for Manufacturing Summit #26
London | TBD
April 23, 2020

industry news

Ford Electrifies Its Mustang | Electronic Design - Engineering Essentials Curated By Experts | November 20, 2019

Are You Cyber Ready for the NYS Shield Act? | FuzeHub | November 20, 2019

Caltech and JPL Firing Quadrotors Out of Cannons | IEEE Spectrum Robotics | November 20, 2019

Doug Ford’s cancellation of green energy deals costs Ontario taxpayers $231M | Canadian Manufacturing | November 20, 2019

Autodesk Forge DevCon 2019 – Microservices, API, DevOps and Data | Beyond PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Blog | November 19, 2019

Material Exchange Ventures AB raises $2M in funding from Inventure to continue its growth in digitalizing the transparency and sustainability of global fashion supply chains | WhichPLM | November 19, 2019

boom! Promoting the power of diversity | | November 19, 2019

Design for Manufacturing Forum is relaunching as a membership organization. Bear with us as we put the required systems and processes in place. Join us at our upcoming DFM Summits in Toronto, Birmingham and London.

80 percent of manufacturing costs are determined in the first 20 percent of the product design process. Design has the key to take cost and waste out of manufacturing

Digital design, fabrication and collaboration tools are catalysts for transformation of the manufacturing industry, creating new opportunities for the next generation of manufacturers

Design for Manufacturing Forum brings together product developers, industrial designers, engineers, makers and manufacturers for a more decentralized, leaner manufacturing industry