I'm trying to get an idea of how long it should take to design new products from other engineers. The reason for this is that I feel like it is taking my company an incredibly long time to go from design to mass production even on simple projects. My goal here is to get input from others and try...
I work in a regional (U.S.) development office for a Japanese company. We primarily design parts to be sourced from local suppliers and use the ASME Y14.5M standard for most of our drawings. We also source many parts from Italy, Spain, Japan and China but most of these drawings do not use GD&T...
I am trying to locate a book that contains formulas for calculating forces on a tractor due to a tiller or plow. A colleague of mine has a agricultural engineering book written in Japanese that contains all of the formulas, but I don't want to continue asking for his help in translating the book...
I have been given the task of helping our department begin the process of going paperless (or nearly paperless) for engineering drawings. This is primarily driven by the fact that plotter/scanner rental, plotter supplies, and shipping drawings to our home office overseas is starting to get very...
I am trying to determine the best way to dimension/tolerance a set of drawings where non-piloted weld nuts are involved (why we insist on using non-piloted nuts I have no idea). I have one level of drawings which details a formed plate with all the proper GD&T for placing the holes used for the...
I have a need to make some material selection/comparison charts similar to the one shown here:
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/me480/Lecture/W03/SelChartsgifs/SelChart2.gif
I remember a piece of software from college that could do this, but I really don't think it is necessary to purchase a...
This thread is a follow up to a thread I started last year: here
I realize that I forgot to answer one of the fundamental questions that was asked: how many users? At my current job there are about 300 engineers, and there were about 1000 at my previous job.
Now it has been about a year since...
I am searching for a reference book to help get a Japanese manager (and engineer) up to speed with U.S. drawing standards and best practices. We have already given him a copy of ASME Y14.5M-2009 for understanding GD&T, but he wants a better understanding of best practices for different types of...
It is my understanding that the primary purpose of a DFMEA is to act as a checklist of items to consider/check when designing and testing. This is the way I have always utilized a DFMEA, but my current employer wants to use it to capture design history. Because of this, our DFMEA template has...
I am putting together a proposal to improve the way in which my company creates Pro/E master models for large project. At the moment, we are using the wild west approach and it has caused some serious issues with both drawing/model consistency and prototype parts. To help clean things up, I am...
I have a question about using holes as datums and how a frame of reference is defined (see attachment).
It is my understanding that holes can be used as datums even if they aren't aligned along the same line as shown in the orientation labeled "1" in my drawing (for clarification, Datum A...
I just wanted to ask a few question about data management to see what everyone else is doing in their company, because the way my company does this seems counterproductive.
Current Job
In my current job we have a home brewed data management system. The way that we are configured to function is...
I am still trying to learn GD&T and I have a few questions about a part that I'm making a drawing for (see attachment). Here are the questions I have:
1. The first feature that I'm having trouble with is special pivot hole used for a linkage with staked ends. The idea is that the linkage is...
I work in an industry where electronic control and monitoring is becoming more and more popular. I even have a patent in the works for a device that uses electronic control of a (normally) hydraulic system. I know enough about electronics to create basic schematics and PCB layouts using simple...
I wanted to find out what everyone is using to track engineering issues? My company has a central office located in another country with a very nice issue tracking system, but for whatever reason they want the regional development office (where I am located) to use their own tracking system...
I am trying to help our department getting a little more organized and I think a good place to start is to clean up our network shares. Right now we have tons of duplicate files and no real organization method which has caused us to use up our disk quota on more than one occasion. I attempted to...
I am currently working an implement for a piece of (slow moving) off road equipment and I am trying to determine the best way to find the forces on the implement mount due to the equipment traveling on a rough road. We normally use a 3g static load for checking items that are on the off road...
My boss has realized the importance of the Manikin library after a recent prototype build and has given me the task of finding training for all the engineers in my office. We have access to the PTC online training, but it is missing training for the Manikin library so I have been trying to find...
I am having a disagreement with a colleague of mine on the proper way to dimension a sheet metal part. I have included a crude sketch of the drawing since I can't share the actual drawing. Basically, there is a dispute on defining a reference datum other than A,B,C and whether or not the datum...
I have an annoyance with Wildfire 4.0 that I can't seem to figure out and I wanted to see if someone here could point me in the right direction...
I don't care much for the preselect highlighting feature of Pro/E (especially with large models or surfaces) so I I have stuck with the old query...
