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consulting:the_consulting_technical_designer_and_manufacturing [2018/01/22 06:35] – [More succinctly: two don'ts] mithat | consulting:the_consulting_technical_designer_and_manufacturing [2020/01/02 22:55] – [Fixed versus live data] mithat | ||
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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. |
- | 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 | + | Don't expect |
- | Don't expect the design engineer to hang onto files that are no longer relevant from a design perspective (i.e., the production files) once they have conveyed them to you. Don't expect them to be able to regenerate the production files either, because the software they use to do this will have gone through several updates by the time you make the request, so there' | + | ===== Fixed 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' |
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+ | ===== 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 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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