% 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... 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... 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...

FlexSys Inc. - Technology Home About Us Technology Applications News Contact Us Technology Compliant Systems Background and Design Conventionally engineered mechanisms connected... by various joints are designed to be strong and stiff. Nature prefers strength combined with compliance. By exploiting compliant design principles significantly reduces part count... at off-design points. Designs in nature, through their capacity to vary geometry, customize their performance for different conditions and environmental fluctuations. Compliant...