This practical guide helps mechanical and electrical engineers design and manufacture quality products using DFX (design for excellence). Readers will learn step by step how to apply the same knowledge-based techniques that improve manufacturability to optimize a product's quality and reliability, safety, serviceability, user friendliness, environmental friendliness, and short time-to-market design. Presenting actual case studies of successful DFX implementation, the book shows how a well-managed program can maximize desirable characteristics in a product's design while reducing manufacturing costs, resulting in a superior, globally competitive product.