Who implements ECO changes on engineering drawings?
Who implements ECO changes on engineering drawings?
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Our company no longer has "draftsmen" in the Engineering Department. Our company uses Solid Edge to create mechanical component drawings, electromechanical assembly drawings, and cable drawings. Anyone in the company can write an ECO and and submit hand marked-up drawings to illustrate the changes that they would like to see on a drawing. Engineers review the ECOs, and then if the engineer approves of the changes, the ECO goes to the ECO committee. If the ECO is approved by the ECO Committee, then the changes to the Engineering Drawings have to be implemented by the Mechanical Engineering Department (like I said earlier, there are no more draftsmen). It is important to note that our assembly drawings also serve as Manufacturing Instructions, at least for the time being. How are other companies handling this situation, or are other companies still keeping some draftsmen around?





RE: Who implements ECO changes on engineering drawings?
The common guidelines are like follows:
1) ECO may be originated by any person in the company
2) ECO should be approved by major parties involved:
a) Engineering/Design
b) Manufacturing
c) Quality
But also sometimes:
d) Purchasing (if new components to be bought)
e) Marketing (If new sales brochures to be made)
f) Etc., etc.
3) Actual design changes have to be routed thru Engineering/Design only; as they are the only ones in charge of original design/any design.
After that it really doesn’t matter who personally will operate the computer.
Or did you ask about something else?
RE: Who implements ECO changes on engineering drawings?
Do I smell a hint of "I'm and Engineer, I'm too good to make drawing changes"? My view point on this as well as drafting generally is if the job requires it then do it - or else find another job.
What is Engineering anyway: FAQ1088-1484: In layman terms, what is "engineering"?
RE: Who implements ECO changes on engineering drawings?
RE: Who implements ECO changes on engineering drawings?
RE: Who implements ECO changes on engineering drawings?
Although we let our manufacturing engineers make changes I'm not convinced it's a good thing because they don't always look at proposed changes from a function point of view and they are pushed to spend the minimum time and seem more willing to sacrifice quality of the drawings to do so than we are in dev eng.
Checkehater also makes a good point about learning from your mistakes.
What is Engineering anyway: FAQ1088-1484: In layman terms, what is "engineering"?
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RE: Who implements ECO changes on engineering drawings?
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RE: Who implements ECO changes on engineering drawings?
I will not trust anyone with my precious 3D data.
But CAD aside, Engineering should always maintain firm grip on everything, well, engineering, be it new design or changes.
Loosen it, and soon everybody and his uncle will be releasing ECOs, but guess what? Engineers will be the ones to blame if anything goes wrong. Just trust me on that.
Nobody looks at the initials in revision column, but the name in titleblock.
RE: Who implements ECO changes on engineering drawings?
I have gone so far as to allow people to think that a particular product feature existed for a reason that was actually bogus if you looked at the underlying physics. ... but the feature was necessary to sort of debottleneck a completely different product function.
I believe that the product feature has been mostly removed since my departure, but its absence has not _yet_ caused a substantial volume of lawsuits. I'm expecting a call, eventually.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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