Thank truckandbus and DGrayPPD for all your input!
Does something like this happen more often in small (private) companies than large (public) cooperations?
Since I started working at this new place, I found many interesting things I never experienced before (I posted some here already). So here is another one:
I am a design engineer. Now I found my manager can go to a drafter directly to make designs/drawings without my knowledge. And none of them...
I only know currently there is no such process so everybody can change the drawings without product design's knowledge. Many things happened already but I don't have the power to change anything just like they can't blame me because I have nothing to do with the changes.
Insert is an interesting word: sounds like I don't belong there...
As IRstuff suggested, I can leave the company tomorrow, and so do the sustaining team and the service team, right?
If it's a Class 1 hardware, every single part on it is Class 1.
Just like if it's a flight hardware, every single part on it has to go to space with it.
Didn't I already say/imply in my very first posting it's process/system problem? Or if it's considered as normal in your companies? Most of you believe it's normal until the last couple of days...
As why sustaining engineers know nothing of the parts they are inheriting? Well, because they are...
The issue is sustaining engineers have ZERO knowledge of the reason behind the design/part selection. And they just assume if a part looks the same, functions the same (on earth), then they can replace it with a cheaper one for space use.
Just give me one example anybody ever tried to use documentation/traceability to find who is responsible for a success mission.
Also this is actually the topic of this thread: if sustaining engineer can change documentation (drawings) without design engineer's knowledge, then what is the...
@CWB1: well, the whole purpose of documentation/tractability is for finger pointing. Otherwise, if it's a success mission, everybody will point the fingers to themselves...
Not only government can dictate who makes the part (sole source), they can dictate where that part is made too. The reason...
90 days to 1 year is a good idea. There shouldn't be any more surprises after that. But still any significant change afterwards should go back to the drawing board, which is the new product development. Otherwise, sustaining can make a new product based on the old one all by themselves!
Since you are in Aerospace, what is special in space as long as bearings are concerned? What kind of tests you need to do in order to address these concerns? Check dimensions?
So if your contractor changed your drawing and caused the problem, you own the problem as the design engineer. This actually happened on the International Space Station: contractor changed the bearings on the treadmill without telling the design engineer because it's a delivered product. The...
