engineeing filing system
engineeing filing system
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20-30 years ago, maybe more, there was an article in Machine Design Magazine with the subject title. I am almost sure that I still have it somewhere but have not found it yet.
I would dearly like to begin implementing it. I should google it but too many distractions with this new job so I am coming to the quick answer store for help if someone knows of it.
It is beautiful thing!
Thanks in advance
for any help
I would dearly like to begin implementing it. I should google it but too many distractions with this new job so I am coming to the quick answer store for help if someone knows of it.
It is beautiful thing!
Thanks in advance
for any help
Design for RELIABILITY, manufacturability and maintainability





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Computer-aided drawing control. (filing system) - Machine Design ...
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MANUFACTURING companies typically have 25000 to 1 million active design drawings stored in some... | Article from Machine Design February 23, 1984.
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But we have not control over engineering calc's and decisions. So we have redundant work, file are left were ever the engineer decides to put them never to be found again.
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Many of our clients, >75%, have very poor drawing archives, for the usual reasons. Those that have good archives save $$ in consulting fees. We encourage everyone to keep their drawings in order.
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Things have changed quite a bit over the course of a few decades. For this quantity of drawings, I'd consider doing some careful research into te various options available for document management, digital asset management, records management systems.
Issues around tracing customer and regulatory requirements, through engineering analysis to product definition start to become significant. Revision control and backtracking to find documentation in support of changes often require more than the single directional link between top level drawings and subassemblies (or whatever) that simple numbering schemes and hierarchical filing systems can support.
The requirements of a useful document management system will vary between industries. The best place to start is to look at various uses cases in order to determine what sort of document searches are done and what sort and how many different search keys are useful in your particular business.
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At the bottom of pages 126 through 130 in the article it reads, "126/POWER TRANSMISSION-82," etc. I guess that was 1982 and only one issue printed per year?
I subscribed to PTE online and asked them permission to e-scan and post on eng-tips.com forum from my original copy of the article cut from the mag.
PHovnanian, I appreciate your comments and hope to key into some more modern techniques but for now I just really liked the simplicity of this filing system which can be set up to each individual or company needs.
PHovnanian,BTW -- I have signed up for an intemediate/advanced Ms Excel class for March 2012(took a basic course ten years ago)and I am thinking to use Excel to start a filing system. I have generated two Excel workbooks so far for the project. One is for competitor specs with a composite section for min/max/median/avg numbers and the other is Customer vs. Horsepower requirements based on specific industry formulae.
I re-read your comments which are very germane to my situation because I am in the last stage of gathering competitor spec's and researching of a difficult engineering application procedure. Friday we had our first meeting with top mgmt. to plan for the initial equipment of a new product line I will be designing. It is an opportune time to implement something of the order you are suggesting but I am clueless where to start because for me your suggestions are a little too generic. However you have hit my nail on the head with this statement:
Because each point you covered applies to this project including Fed rqmts.
This is the part that is too generic for me so that I am not sure where to start:
This thread really belongs in the following Forum -- sorry to misspost it here.
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