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====== The consulting technical designer and manufacturing ====== | ====== The consulting technical designer and manufacturing ====== | ||
- | Once the consulting design engineer ((A.k.a, the " | + | <WRAP center round info 90%> |
+ | **TL;DR**: It's not the consulting design engineer' | ||
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+ | Once the consulting design engineer((A.k.a, | ||
===== 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. |
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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' | ||
- | The designer takes responsibility for their design, and the manufacturer needs to take responsibility for manufacturing. This means the manufacturer needs to take responsibility for managing the documents needed for manufacturing. | + | ===== Fixed versus live data ===== |
- | Don't expect | + | Owning manufacturing also means being able to distinguish between a design version's //fixed// data and its //live// data. Fixed data are things that will never change throughout |
- | Owning your manufacturing also means you need to be 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' | + | ===== Two succinct |
- | ===== 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 consulting design engineer | + | Don' |
- | Under no circumstances should you ask the design engineer to just regenerate | + | Don' |
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