I am a SW design engineer in an expanded factory specializing in sheet metal work (with a big penchant for stainless steel work) we also do conventional machinery (not CNC).
We would like to improve our quality of production process, starting with the production drawings. When I joined the factory 1 year ago I noticed that our templates on the production drawings are not too elaborate. There were mostly a lot of unused squares, which is a shame.
So I would like to improve this subject by creating a template that would be specially compatible for sheet metal and wholesale machinery.
I would like these templates to write under which station each component should pass and that each worker in each station can also sign that he has done his job well.
That's a bit of an open question. You can also suggest another process that may be fairer in the way we should work.
If you're a similar factory and already work well with your way, I'd be happy for you to let me know.
Basically, do you want to integrate the manufacturing process into the part plan?
As far as I know, it's quite unusual: the cartoonist is rarely the gammist. But it's quite possible, all you have to do is for the gammist to take the plan (solution that implies that the gammist has an SW license or that the draughtsman takes over the plan to integrate the information) or to integrate an excel file into the plan (solution that can be cumbersome to manage from a file management point of view).
The production range describes each process of the component advancement in great detail. Here we want to table all the stations on which the component must pass (e.g. laser cutting box, bending box, polishing box, welding box...). I want to attach a table to the image of the one found on each industrial design at the bottom right in general; which will include all these boxes mentioned + the usual information boxes (i.e. material, thickness etc...).
Another solution would be to use EPDM which, if properly configured, would no longer allow the plan to be modified at each stage but to manage all this information in a data card and route the plan to the right station through workflows. "Manual" signatures could also be transformed into "electronic" signatures during changes of state. This solution is certainly more expensive, but it has a number of advantages in terms of monitoring and reliability of the process.
Otherwise you can also fill in its various operations in the custom properties of the part by creating them and create a kind of nomenclature that will look for the information in the part.