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I have inherited a product with inconsistent designs sharing the same part number. What do I do?

I am now in charge of a product line my company has been shipping for a decade. One of the previous product engineers was... shall we say, less than conscientious about sustainability and proper documentation. We have shipped hundreds of units, of…
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I-beam annotation for tube on drawing

I have been sent a clip of a drawing with the following annotations on it, but I've never seen them before and can't figure out what they mean. Is there a standard interpretation of these callouts? Initially I thought that they might be some…
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How can I better structure documentation for a quality control process?

In my organization, every unit is built by hand, and every unit is tested. Every product has a written construction procedure and a written test procedure. We're in the process of updating and improving all those procedures. One potential problem…
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How can I arrange my ECO system to enforce the principle of least privilege?

Right now, changes to BOMs are executed through verbal or email instructions to an employee who serves as BOM gatekeeper. This means paper trails are almost non-existent. Who changed what and why is almost impossible to track down. I'm planning to…
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Is there a good reason for long and fixed-length serial numbers?

I am involved in an upcoming product launch and we recently had a discussion about serial numbers. We will of course use variant-specific model identifiers and revision numbers, but couldn't see any good reason to include any leading zeros in serial…
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Document Naming System

This is actually only tangent to engineering, and mostly related to Quality Management Systems, so this could be off topic. For a document which has a specific Document Naming System in a Document Control format such as: [Project Name]-[Document…
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What engineering discipline deals with ensuring that a manufacturing and testing process is clearly defined and followed?

I work for a small engineering and manufacturing company. To date our production process for each product has been defined in each critical aspect by the design engineer, then handed to the production department and rarely looked at again by…
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How to find building specs & blueprint(s) for an apartment complex?

For any given apartment complex in the U.S. (if you want to get specific, I am wondering about NYC), how does one track down the building's specifications. I'm talking about specs as detailed as the thickness of the walls (this is really the detail…
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What practical solutions exist to implement BIM naming conventions?

I work for a medium-sized civil engineering firm (about 200 employees) that is trying to improve its BIM capabilities. Specifically, it would like to improve data sharing data become compliant with ISO 19650. We have started managing data in a…
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Drawing documentation: Is possible to keep the original drawing valid when revised version is released?

is possible (by European standards) to have two (or more) valid drawings with same drawing number but different revision indexes? For example: DRW-001 = Some Bolt M20x50 DRW-001a = Same bolt but length changed (M20x60) And then BOM(s) where both…
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Shaft Spline Information

I have a shaft with splines on it that I want to create a drawing for in Solidworks because I may need to have this specific spline replicated on a part in the future. Does anyone have any documentation on how to identify a spline? Or possibly a…
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Text Recognition Problem in PDF Plotted from AutoCAD

I need searchable PDF output from AutoCAD files. There is a convenient procedure to do so which includes activating "TrueType as text" option while plotting and using windows fonts only. I do so and indeed much of the texts are recognized as so and…
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