Good feedback people. One thing that I did not mention is that we have a machine shop in the department. My prefered tolerance block layout is as follows:
X/X=+/- 1/8 (Band saw / Plasma cutter / welding ops.)
X.XX=+/- .02 (primaraly for use of raw stock edges)
X.XXX=+/- .005 (General machining...
I am the fabrication supervisor at a major paint company in the U.S.. In the Fab Shop, the welders make stairs that lead up to tanks, small footbridges that go over driveways, flood areas, hand rails, stainless 1oo gl mixing tanks for sample batches, and reverse engineered "stuff" to keep the...
