In design engineering a change is most definitely not as good as a rest. Any amendment occurring to a product’s CAD design usually results in an enormous amount of work to ensure the data used is both accurate and is the most up to date version. The consequences of not adhering to this can lead to disastrous consequences, with the ripples being felt far and wide.
So dealing with alterations to a new product’s design needs to be tracked, controlled and recorded accurately. To combat this many organisations turn to buying product data management software (PDM), which essentially is configured to stop two people making changes and overwriting each others amendments. So aside from version control and aiding to track revisions, the software can generate a bill of materials (BOM) and supports collaboration, both internally within the engineering department and externally with other teams, contractors and suppliers.
But what if you don’t have a PDM system? Well, we fully appreciate that not everyone owns the software to set up automated controls. In fact, we have recently been working with a client, whilst they design and develop their very first new product, to help them set up their own manual version. We assisted them by ensuring all of their CAD file formats and templates were accurate, that the associated data was included within the CAD file structure itself and more importantly that it was all correct, so they could move forward and manage their own data, in the right way. This was a very time consuming project, looking at their assemblies, sub assemblies and various parts including all the associated drawings, which naturally required a high level of concentration at all times.
So you see there is absolutely no resting involved when changes need to be made to a CAD file during new product development. In fact you need more concentration and attention paid to each and every detail involved.
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