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consulting:the_consulting_technical_designer_and_manufacturing [2020/01/02 22:50] – [Two succinct don'ts] mithat | consulting:the_consulting_technical_designer_and_manufacturing [2020/11/25 19:26] (current) – [Fixed versus live data] mithat | ||
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Don't expect the design engineer to hang onto production files that are no longer relevant from a design perspective 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' | Don't expect the design engineer to hang onto production files that are no longer relevant from a design perspective 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' | ||
- | ===== Fixed versus live data ===== | + | ===== Final versus live data ===== |
- | Owning manufacturing also means being able to distinguish between a design version' | + | Owning manufacturing also means being able to distinguish between a design version' |
- | 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' | + | 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' |
===== Two succinct don'ts ===== | ===== Two succinct don'ts ===== | ||
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Don't 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. | Don't 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. | ||
- | Don't ask the design engineer to just regenerate the production documents they sent you before because you either lost them or don't want to dig them up. Regenerating files that have been previously vetted requires vetting them all over again. In most cases this means a full round of testing and prototype building. A good designer will //not// release to manufacturing anything that has not been properly vetted. It's their ass on the line if something somehow | + | Don't ask the design engineer to just regenerate the production documents they sent you before because you either lost them or don't want to dig them up. Regenerating files that have been previously vetted requires vetting them all over again. In most cases this means a full round of testing and prototype building. A good designer will //not// release to manufacturing anything that has not been properly vetted. It's their ass on the line if something somehow |
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