I have a very large R&D project coming up at work and our current drawing system and practices are not ideal for a project that is being started from scratch. There will be approximately 10-15 main project components with many sub-assemblies and hundreds of parts stemming from those. There will...
There's a bit of a debate in the office regarding dimensioning drawings. We bounce around back and forth between how drawings are dimensioned. Sometimes it's dependent on which machinist will be manufacturing the part, sometimes it depends on the manufacturing method, and sometimes it depends on...
I'm slowly getting pushed into a project management role at my job. Unfortunately, we don't have a formal system in place and it's somewhat of a free for all. With a ton of new contracts in the pipeline, this way of operating the engineering department won't be sustainable.
I'm going to be...
