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  1. amckenna

    latch design in plastic/sheetmetal housing

    Hey all, I'm in the process of designing a product which has a plastic molded front and a sheetmetal back cover. I'm not a plastics expert, and would like some input on ways to fasten the cover and backing together without using screws. I've been thinking about using snap latches, but I'm...
  2. amckenna

    Bill of materials pt # verses Assembly drawing pt #

    Thanks for all your inputs. The only "grey" areas with my companies part numbering system is this shared part number between assembly BOM and assembly drawing. As Ewh stated, adding a "PL" to the BOM part # will hopefully straighten things out.
  3. amckenna

    Bill of materials pt # verses Assembly drawing pt #

    Thanks for the reply. You methodolgy is exactly what I was thinking of implimenting.
  4. amckenna

    Bill of materials pt # verses Assembly drawing pt #

    Bill of materials part number verses Assembly drawing part number: should they have the same part number, or different? At my company, we’ve had some disagreement on the above topic. I would like to get some outside options on how to handle this. Currently, we have a program that helps us...

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