Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
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I did a search ten pages deep, but did not find a question/answer to what I'm looking for.
My company has been awarded an order for our industrial equipment where the customer wants all 2D drawings with their title block and border.
This has caused some consternation in our Engineering department as it comes across with the customer's logo, name and all. I failed to realize the concern and would appreciate comments/replies to my question: Which is the appropriate way to handle this:
(1) Refuse to use the customer title block altogether and use our standard
(2) Insert their title block outside our title block (?!)
(3) Use their title block.
Thanks,
TZ
My company has been awarded an order for our industrial equipment where the customer wants all 2D drawings with their title block and border.
This has caused some consternation in our Engineering department as it comes across with the customer's logo, name and all. I failed to realize the concern and would appreciate comments/replies to my question: Which is the appropriate way to handle this:
(1) Refuse to use the customer title block altogether and use our standard
(2) Insert their title block outside our title block (?!)
(3) Use their title block.
Thanks,
TZ





RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
Use their title block. If it's in the contract to use their block and the contract has been accepted then it's a bit late to worry about it now, someone should have addressed this before accepting the job.
If there are Intellectual Property rights issues that you're worried about handing over then get legal involved. Maybe adding a note to all the drawings above and beyond their title block addressing this will suffice. I've seen vaguely similar done after companies merged, simplistically all the older drawings were stamped with a note covering the fact the fact the new company owned the IP or something like that.
At a previous employer we occasionally did contract design jobs where we had to use the customers title block. As I recall since they were paying for the development then they effectively owned the IP anyway so that wasn't an issue.
Only take option 1 if you're willing to lose the work, and future work. Don't take option 2, that sounds like a mess.
What is Engineering anyway: FAQ1088-1484: In layman terms, what is "engineering"?
RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
Chris
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RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
The title block will most likely contain their CAGE Code. But, you can create a note just above the title block, although I think the spec also states in the Revision History block, that the DESIGN AUTHORITY is your CAGE Code.
Or you could just make a note stating that the original design authority was your company and then you transferred the authority to your customer upon project completion.
--Scott
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RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
The biggest problem with this policy is having some really, relly bad drawings on our format. I DO NOT want to have to train every vendor in proper drafting, so we live with it, unless it is severe enough to cause manufacturing issues in the future should we decide to have another vendor fabricate the design.
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RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
I failed to appreciate the intellectual property considerations initially and therefore would like to understand what is generally acceptable for the next time...
Thanks,
TZ
RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
What is Engineering anyway: FAQ1088-1484: In layman terms, what is "engineering"?
RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
Yet they want drawings with their titleblock?
Sounds like the IP is your company's.
They may be reselling your company's products and their customer wants to see the drawings.
I would do option 2.
Hopefully your design is not on E-size paper.
I would take my company drawings and create their titleblock on the next larger sheet and put our sheet right on top of theirs. I have done this when I did airbag designs for the auto industry. I just created a 2-D dumb drawing sheet and imported it into the larger titelblock file. This preserves your CAD design and drawing and only gives them the 2-d data, even if you send them 'their' file.
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"Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor." - Robert Hunter
RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
What is Engineering anyway: FAQ1088-1484: In layman terms, what is "engineering"?
RE: Apparently, not your typical TITLE BLOCK question...
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