I have an old drawing that has a table on it. One of the columns in the table is for a radius dimension. To the right of the dimensions in the table there is either one Plus sign (+), two plus signs (++), or three plus signs (+++). Has anyone ever seen this type of tolerancing, if in fact that...
Our company manufactures analytical instruments; we do our hardware and software development in-house, as well as most of our manufacturing. Our Technical Writing department creates the Operator Manual, Installation Instructions, Upgrade Instructions, etc. for our instruments. Other than the...
We use Solid Edge now, but back during our Cadkey days, the mechanical engineers would finish their designs, then turn their assembly models over to drafting to make the hybrid exploded assembly drawings that would be used by manufacturing and service. Once the draftsmen got a hold of the 3D...
There is a big push right now to keep engineers focused on new product development. Therefore, if engineers have to spend time each week revising drawings for existing products they are being distracted from there main priority, which is new product designs and new product documentation. I...
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...
The way that I have always looked at new product development, is that somebody needs to drive the bus. And with new product development, I believe that somebody, needs to be engineering. Manufacturing Engineering, Service, Marketing, Sales, all play a role in developing new products, but it is...
I guess you can make any process work, just so long as you document it and reach consensus from all concerned parties (in this case, engineering and manufacturing engineering).
The 3D Solid Edge Assembly Models along with the hybrid assembly/exploded drawings have worked for years. They have...
The mechanical engineering manager has been directing his department to produce a hybrid assembly/exploded view drawing for years. He is okay with producing a "classical assembly drawing per ASME Y14.24", and then letting manufacturing engineering create the assembly instructions with the new...
KENAT, you are correct. I have left out some important information. Manufacturing Engineering is currently in the market for a draftsman/illustrator to produce step-by-step assembly instructions. Up until now, the manufacturing engineers reviewed the step-by-step assembly...
We design and manufacture analytical instrumentation. The assemblies can be as small as a printed circuit board card cage with 4-8 mechanical components along with 3-5 printed circuit boards, or as large as 150 components that consist of sub-assemblies, fasteners, cables, fittings, brackets...
Our Director of Engineering wants to release Solid Edge Assembly Drawings with nothing more than a Bill of Materials on the drawing, no views at all. These "drawings" would then be turned over to Manufacturing Engineering to create Assembly Instructions. The thought behind this new process...
Thanks for all the input on this topic, and KENAT, thanks for the link to your previous thread dealing with the same subject matter. As I suspected, different companies are doing different things. Although, it does seem that most entries on this thread and on KENAT's previous thread favor an...
KENAT, doesn't sound like the same company, but it's pretty close. Our Manufacturing Engineering Department doesn't create any drawings, they want everything on the exploded assembly drawings that are currently produced by mechanical engineering.
"These are very time consuming to make, and...
We are using Solid Edge, and we also design with modular/testable sub-assemblies. Our assembly drawings can have up to 100 separate line items on the Bill of Materials. Our step-by-step assembly drawings can require up to 20 B-size or C-size sheets.
Our manufacturing engineering department...
