customized design solutions based on FlexSys' compliant system design paradigm. Several studies have indicated that assembly accounts for about 40% of the labor cost and about 50...% of the total cost to manufacture a product. One of the tenets of Design for Assembly (DFA) is to consolidate parts into an integrated design unless there is a functional reason... for relative motion and/or material differences. An approach called Design for No Assembly (DNA) takes an even more radical view and advocates that compliant systems can be used...