Going for DFM requires certainly a lot of attention to the whole process of PCB design ( not even talking about casing and everything ). It might require:
- Talking to the PCB House;
- Talking to your colleagues( here for instance );
- knowing what is new on fabrication ( I normally like to have the PDF of the manufacture capabilities and be careful not to fall in the high-end manufacture procedure as the boards I work on don't need them);
- following standards ( like using IPC based components);
Based on them, it might be a good idea also to have checklists for your department, this help to know when finished is finished. Well, this is what I've got from my experience and I don't come from a background that DFM was commonplace. The first time (some time ago ) I heard of DFM was not from the workplace but from when I wanted to learn how to the PCBs in a better way, more economical way, better to test, to maintain.
Well, today I stepped again on a video about DFM from the EEVBLOG youtube channel and I wanted to share specifically the panelization part because it is made with real Panels and different ones.
Here starts the talking of panelization ( But you can jump to the nice black panel at 21:37):
Complementing the black panel part I took a piece from the Altium Academy channel on youtube in which one of the technics described can be seen here:
