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===== Separation of concerns ===== | ===== Separation of concerns ===== | ||
- | The manufacturer owns manufacturing. | + | The designer takes responsibility for their design, and the manufacturer owns manufacturing. This means the manufacturer takes responsibility for managing the documents they need for manufacturing. |
- | The designer takes responsibility for their design, | + | Don't expect the design |
- | Don't expect the design engineer to hang onto files that are no longer relevant from a design perspective (i.e., the production files you are using) once they have conveyed them to you. Don't expect them to be able to regenerate the production files either. Assuming they have held on to the original source files, the software they used may have gone through several updates by the time you make the request, so there' | + | ===== Final versus live data ===== |
- | ===== Fixed versus | + | Owning manufacturing also means being able to distinguish between a design version' |
- | Owning manufacturing also means being able to distinguish between | + | If you think the only thing that needs to change in a design |
- | If you think the only thing that needs to change in a design is live data (e.g., the BOM) and it requires a design engineer's input, then you will need to decide whether it makes more sense to have them operate only on the live data //that you provide them// or have them regenerate everything, then re-test and re-prototype, | + | ===== Two succinct don'ts ===== |
- | ===== More succinctly: | + | The above can be distilled down to two succinct |
- | Do not assume that the consulting design engineer will maintain a history of manufacturing files for you. If maintaining a history of manufacturing files is something you expect your consultant to do, expect to have to pay for the service. Reliable, traceable archiving isn't free, easy, or fun. It's work, and not the sort the design engineer wants to do. Especially when, as is so often the case, they are being paid a fraction of what they would be getting if they were a staff engineer someplace. | + | Don' |
- | Under no circumstances should you ask the design engineer to just regenerate | + | Don' |
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