**6. Acknowledgments**

The authors would like to thank FAPEMIG (process EDT-538/07 and TEC-PPM-00043-08) and CNPq (project DT 312419/09) for research funding provided by in the form of research projects and scientific initiation scholarship, without which this research would not be possible. Our thanks also to employees and directors of the two researched companies, which allowed us to accomplish the current research.

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**PROCESS REDUCTION (%)** **ASSEMBLING AND MANUFACTURING TIME REDUCTION (%)** 

**CONJUNTO COMPONENTS** 

Embedding -

**5. Conclusions** 

for its deployment.

reduction, among others.

**6. Acknowledgments** 

possible generalization of the same future.

will be rewarding with the time.

**REDUCTION (%)** 

Adaptor 29 23 81 Complete plate 29 36 44 Embedding - several 17 0 30 Embedding - box 17 24 62 Embedding - socket 100 100 100

accessories 0 8 13 Total 11 15 47

It is considered that the goals of this work have been achieved, once from the studied concepts in the theoretical consideration it was possible to analyze a model for the product redesign, which provided reduction in the components number in the assembling processes

Preliminary analyzing at Company A the difference between locks costs, manufacturing time, assembling time and facilities by the new model, one sees it will be a very positive change and, although some high cost with the machined model acquisition, such an amount

The recommendations for the Company B product were made with the care not to significantly alter the current company´s infrastructure in terms of the machines and tools, facilitating the development of the presented solutions and not needing any big investment

The research showed too that the integration of design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA) with the rapid prototyping, in a reverse engineering approach, as proposed by Souza (2007), is an adequate strategy for the improvement (redesign) of products in small sized companies. The reverse engineering allows the study of other technologies or manufacturing and assembly solutions, components standardization, secondary operations

The model proposed by Souza (2007) showed consistent for making product redesigns. It is expected that the current work can contribute to the incremental validation of this model. It is advised that other researchers use this same model in another similar research, aiming a

The authors would like to thank FAPEMIG (process EDT-538/07 and TEC-PPM-00043-08) and CNPq (project DT 312419/09) for research funding provided by in the form of research projects and scientific initiation scholarship, without which this research would not be

number, the assembling/manufacturing time and the product redesigning cost-goal.

Table 9. Summary of the final results provided in the hour meter redesign


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