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Some attention has been paid to the application of Lean Manufacturing principles in the back office (for example, “Lean Thinking” by Womack and Jones), but there are not many engineers who understand the lean concepts well enough to apply them to their design and other engineering processes. One aspect of Lean Manufacturing is especially interesting in terms of back office processes, and that is the concept of flow. Continue Reading
If your company uses CAD tools and if those CAD files are managed by PDM software, then you already know the benefits of PLM integration, meaning programmed interactions between PLM elements whereby the data management system understands and interprets authoring tools’ internal data structures. Without integration, it would be nearly or completely impossible to manage the complex file references generated in today’s CAD tools. But what if your company uses a software tool that does not support integration to your PDM software?
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The origination of the configuration/part family feature in CAD tools is certainly interesting. There are some very elegant uses of configurations like showing a sheet metal part in the bent and flat states. Then there are abuses, like the bearing part with 431 unique part numbers, each with a simplified and detailed configuration for a grand total of 862 configurations—all in a single file. Continue Reading
Getting management to approve and fund your project can be a very long and arduous process, but once you’ve received the green light and the tools that you need, delivering can be even more difficult. By far, the largest impediments to completing your project successfully and on schedule are developing and maintaining a realistic scope.
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Sometime ago I was working with a prospective client. We were talking about collaboration within SharePoint while looking at some third-party tools that could potentially help with task assignments and process-status tracking. The tool we were working with was quite nice and would store all process and assignment-related data in a SharePoint list. At anytime you could go to this list to see the history of any process as well as its current status. I was pretty impressed with the amount of data being captured and thought the prospect would be as well. Several people on the call asked the same question “but how do I see the current status of my process?” I didn’t quite understand, after all, the data was right there staring us in the face. I tried to explain this to them, but they continued to say that this was not what they needed to see. Continue Reading
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