Re: NO MORE DRAWINGS

Ed,

We are in agreement, just have some different terminolgy. What you
state is our philosophy also.

In some areas we have a bit more detail/verbiage on a drawing. In
others we let the math data do the talking. We always work very
closely with our manufacturing folks to make sure we are giving them
what they need to complete our builds efficiently. We have had pretty
good success with our RDD's.

One distinct advantage we have with implementing RDD's is that there
is very little that we design that we send out to have someone else
build. Even with that it is amazing how many of our suppliers have no
issues working with math data and a reduced dimension drawing. I am
hard pressed to even name one where that was an issue for them.

Cheers,

Anna





On Sep 28, 11:53 pm, Edward T Eaton <ed1...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 28, 1:52 pm, Anna Wood <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We are doing Reduced Dimension Drawings, this is kind of the best of
both worlds. We have a document for our travelers, ISO 9000, etc; but
we do not spend hours creating complete details.

We mostly do critical to function (CTF) drawings, which I imagine are
analagous to your 'reduced dimension drawings'. Since most of our
stuff is made directly from the CAD data, we focus our efforts on
developing inspection drawings to insure that parts that are supposed
to fit actually will... fit.
We believe strongly that drawing aren't going away. Sure, we don't
need to define every stupid cross-section on stuff "that doesn't
matter" (note quotes) that will be machined from the CAD data anyway,
but without a dated and revision controlled piece of paper (or locked
digital file) defining CTF dims (with tolerances), how can you hold a
vendor accountable if what you paid for doesn't turn out to be what
you paid for? Answer - a drawing (or pdf file of a drawing)
Ed


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