Design for Manufacture
Getting your product designed right from the start saves time, reduces cost, and prevents headaches down the road. Complexus Medical's Design for Manufacture (DFM) program puts our manufacturing expertise to work early in your development cycle.
What is Design for Manufacture?
Design for Manufacture is the practice of designing products with production in mind. When we partner with you early in the development process, we bring a manufacturer's perspective to your engineering decisions — catching potential production issues before they become expensive tooling changes or production delays.
Our team reviews your designs and specifications with an eye toward material selection, tolerance stack-ups, assembly sequence, packaging compatibility, and regulatory documentation requirements. The result is a product that's not only well-engineered but genuinely manufacturable at scale.
Our DFM Services
Design Reviews
We conduct formal design reviews with your engineering team to evaluate your product drawings and specifications from a manufacturing perspective.
Material Selection
We help select materials that meet your performance requirements while being available, cost-effective, and compatible with your manufacturing processes.
Tolerance Analysis
We analyze tolerance stack-ups to ensure your design can be built to spec consistently, without excessive scrap or rework.
Prototype Development
We build and test prototypes that reveal real-world manufacturing challenges early — before you're committed to production tooling.
Process Development
We develop and document the specific manufacturing processes, fixtures, and tooling needed to produce your product efficiently and repeatably.
Packaging Design
We design packaging that protects your product through sterilization and the supply chain, while meeting labeling and regulatory requirements.
Our Facility
Our Mishawaka, Indiana facility is equipped with the tools and technology to take your product from concept through production.
Start the Conversation Early
The earlier you bring us in, the more value we can add. Contact us to schedule a DFM review for your current project.
Request a DFM Review