Manufacturing Documentation

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Manufacturing Documentation

• (making pictures into reality)

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You Must Make a Deliverable to Get Paid
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What Documentation?

• What are You Making?

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Starting with The What

• Minimum Requirement
• BOM
• Routing

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How do You Get to Documentation?

• Start with Product Definition
• Drawings?
• Add Your Organizations Skill Set
• Create Process
• Detail Process
• Document Process

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Start with Drawings

• Tolerances?
• What do They Mean?
• CpK?
• Radii? May Specify Manufacturing Orientation
• What Process Did Designer Intend?
• Its OK to Ask
• Its Good to Feed Forward

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Create Process

• Analytical tolerances, stack ups, intent
• Software How GOOD does the copy have to be?
• Background What can YOUR Organization do?
• Creative

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Document Process

• BOM
• Routing
• other

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Other

• Machines
• Tools
• Gages
• Programs
• Setup Instructions
• Assembly Fixtures
• Purchasing Specifications

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What Not to Do

• Dont Over Document
• Increases cost
• Insults Your Audience
• Dont Under Document
• Allows Defective Parts
• Allows Shop to Stop and Wait for You

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Examples

• Setup Sheets
• Process Sheets
• Gaging Instructions
• Inventory Aids
• Machine Instructions
• Shipping Instructions

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Mistakes Ive Made

• Foreign Sourcing
• Steel Specification
• Welding vs. Brazing
• Cost vs. Availability
• Geometric Tolerancing
• Great System for Creating Gages
• Many Tolerances Cannot be Measured
• Cylindricity
• Profile

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Mistakes Ive Made

• Forgetting What Im Selling
• If Im a Packaged Software Company, How Do I Get
  Payed for Customizing Product?
• If Im a Manufacturer, How Do I get Paid for
  Designs?
• Microfinish
• Milled vs. Ground
• vs. Roundness
• Product Startup Transient Failures

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Questions?