Manufacturing Engineer

[Robert1985LE]

Hello, I have been a Mechanical Design Engineer for 14 years. I just accepted a transfer to become a Manufacturing Engineer for a facility that manufactures electronic components. Do you have any advice for being a manufacturing engineer?

 

[cranky108]

Quality is important to your customers. Not just manufacturer, but also the materials that they are made from.

 

[IRstuff]

What kinds of electronic components?

You presumably need to know about sampling theory, statistical process control, reliability, some level of materials science, etc.

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[3DDave]

Typically a manufacturing engineer is responsible for the design of the process line, the manufacturing sequence, any tools and fixtures, coordinating with the Quality department to ensure features are in place to gather and report quality measures. They will be managing inventory control on the assembly line, both for discrete items and for non-discrete items. Example: a resistor is a discrete item, solder paste is not. This in addition to other consumables, such as soldering iron tips, cleaning materials, gloves, hair nets/caps. Further coordinate with those responsible for worker safety to ensure that there is proper ventilation, correct eye protection, and that any functions that require machine guards have machine guards and emergency stops and are safe against electrocution hazards, as well as grounding to the workers to prevent electrostatic discharge damage to electrical components.

This applies to a factory that assembles circuit boards and then assembles those into small enclosures, such as the manufacture of residential microwave ovens or cell phones.

If the company is a maker of resistors or capacitors or integrated circuits, then there is significantly more process planning and factory layout involved.

If the company is making substation transformers then you are likely to need to know about getting welders qualified, certification for overhead lifting of material, coordinating planning for toxic materials spillage.