Design For Manufacturing - Principles and techniques that are used to ensure that a product is more easily manufactured, has higher yield during manufacture and/or exhibits lower cost of manufacturing. May be accomplished through choice of components, extra circuits for testing through to mundane issues like space for fixturing and labeling amongst many other techniques.
further reading
Design for assembly (DfA) for throughole components and surface mount components. The section on surface mount is somewhat outdated, though.
