Getting the design to purchasing / production
Getting the design to purchasing / production
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So, Everywhere I've worked, there has been a lot of effort in getting the design to purchasing/manufacturing. One place, we hand a guy a stack of drawings, and he figures out which parts are made, and which are purchased. (distinguished by the first two digits of the part number) Here, we engineers copy the BOMs from the drawings, and separate it up into fabbed parts, and purchased parts in an Excel spreadsheet, and it multliplies it times however many items we're building. Then he colaborates it with the drawings. Sometimes a typo will throw things off, and we end up with too many parts, or not enough. It's also not very efficient.
Looking for ideas and tips on how to do this as efficiently as possible, and without the chance of mistakes.
I'm not seeing PDMWorks, or any add-ons helping with this particular aspect of things.
Looking for ideas and tips on how to do this as efficiently as possible, and without the chance of mistakes.
I'm not seeing PDMWorks, or any add-ons helping with this particular aspect of things.
David






RE: Getting the design to purchasing / production
Put some research into ERP/MRP. There are systems out there even for small firms.
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RE: Getting the design to purchasing / production
"Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating."
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RE: Getting the design to purchasing / production
DFM is especially important to optimize qualit and cost of parts amde in-house. The sooner this decision is made, the better.
RE: Getting the design to purchasing / production
RE: Getting the design to purchasing / production
Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots said it best: "Making a list and checking it twice."
RE: Getting the design to purchasing / production
Leaving purchasing to only purchasing, and not involved with engineering details, will help.
Chris
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Michael McMillan
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