Problem
- Strong competition in the market, need to start fabrication earlier in the project.
- Detail drawings creation is decentralized from manufacturers, so in different factories around the world.
- Important client support from the manufacturers to explain the standards they must follow.
- Too long time to receive the deliverables.
- Differences in the layout of a drawing from one to another.
- Product quality is uneven, since each project can be designed in different plants.
Suggested solutions
- The customer produces the arrangements drawings and all the calculations required for the design. Leaving him full control over design.
- Development of a tool for exchanging project parameters between the client and the partner that will produce all detail drawings of each project.
- Development of a parametric computer solution based on their manufacturing standards, which creates automatically a large portion of the manufacturing drawings required using the AutoCAD platform.
- Subsequently, drawers complement the unsupported portions by the application and the portions where it would be too costly to automate.
Results
- Eliminating confusion by using the exchange tool parameters associated with the project where the data is defined only once compared to before where we needed to compare all the worksheets.
- All projects manufacturing drawings are now produced by a single partner which ensures homogeneity.
- Standardization of the drawings, since they are produced automatically.
- The product quality was increased.
- The cycle time and costs associated with the creation of manufacturing drawings have been halved.
- Electronic exchange between the client and the Partner.
