Design and Manufacturing
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A friend who was working on the design of a jacketed equipment unit asked his supervisor how to proceed with the manufacturing process based on the design drawings. The supervisor replied that he should focus only on completing the design aspects, without having to worry about how the equipment would be manufactured. In fact, the manufacturability of some pattern designs is indeed poor, which is related to this mindset. I would like to ask the experienced designers out there: do you take manufacturing considerations into account when designing?
When designing, we must consider whether the manufacturing process is feasible at all; no matter how good the design may be, if the process isn’t workable, it’s still impossible to produce the product
If something designed cannot be manufactured, then what’s the point of designing it? It generates no benefits and wastes resources – is it meaningful for you to be such a designer? When we do design work, we usually take into account the issues related to production and manufacturing; things that are not cost-effective or practical are unlikely to sell well these days!
We take into account production and manufacturing aspects when designing, which should be the most fundamental principle of design.
When designing, processability must be considered first, as well as economic viability.
It definitely needs to be considered. Before starting formal design work, I spent a few months in the workshop to get familiar with the production process.
When designing, it is essential to take into account aspects related to processing and manufacturing. Design is first carried out based on the manufacturing process. If the process isn’t well designed, how can the drawings be properly created? And how can manufacturing proceed successfully in such a case? Therefore, the manufacturing process must be feasible in order to design products based on it!
Design exists to serve manufacturing and production; if something cannot be manufactured or produced, then such a design is useless
Hehe, this reminds me of the first lesson our teacher gave us, mechanical engineering students in college. “There was once a student from Tsinghua University who designed a great product; one of its components was a small metal box with a hollow interior. It was required that this box have no welds and not be assembled from separate parts. His teacher asked him just one question: How will you produce this box? And then the student said nothing more.” In fact, design is meant to serve production – a product, no matter how good, is of no value if it cannot be manufactured.
Of course it needs to be considered, especially by production companies with design qualifications. The leader’s words might be referring to your device; generally, jacketed equipment is relatively simple, or perhaps you are not very familiar with the processing process. Some design institutes do not give enough consideration to machinability in their drawings; it’s impossible to manufacture products based on those drawings, but things have improved a lot now
Of course, manufacturing must be taken into account; the principles guiding design are safety, reliability, cost-effectiveness, as well as ease of production and maintenance. Someone once designed it with access holes that were not large enough, which resulted in the internal components being unable to be installed.