Product Manufacturing:Trade-offs, Challenges, and

Strategies

Rachel DzombakLaboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability

University of California, Berkeley

Road Map

1. Motivation: Why manufacturing?

2. Issues Encountered3. Strategies 4. Manufacturing in

Education 5. Questions

Design for the 90%.

Design praxis often does not include manufacturing.

IDEO 2010

Design praxis often does not include manufacturing.

Design praxis often does not include manufacturing.

Design for manufacturing.

Manufacturing is critical for venture scaling.

TIME

REVE

NUE

(Pilot)

Idea

Prototype

DesignImplementationMaturity

TIME

REV

EN

UE

(Pilot)

Prototype

Launch

Reinvention

Obsolescence

Manufacturing Strategies

Local + Local Model

Hybrid Model

Berkeley Darfur Stove

Import Model

Manufacturing Issues Encountered

Economic Considerations

1. Overhead costs

2. Standardization vs Customization

3. Quality Control

Environmental Considerations

1. Embedded Waste

2. Environmental Impacts

3. End-of-Life

Technical Considerations

1. Materials

2. Available Resources

3. Replacement Parts

4. Maintenance

WE CARE Solar

Social Considerations

1. Local vs Global Supply Chain,

2. Employee Skillsets,

3. Worker Safety

Manufacturing + Education