Mechanical Design Practice

For most of my career as a mechanical designer, the coordinate measuring machine was somewhere on the other side of a gl...

Early in my time as a contract engineer stationed inside a manufacturer's plant, I designed a welding cell that I was ge...

Early in my career I designed a bracket that could be installed backward. It was symmetric enough that an assembler in a...

I still remember the first fixture I designed on my own, early in my career as a contract designer stationed at a manufa...

The first time I sat through a first article inspection review as a junior designer, I mostly watched the quality team a...

The first time a purchasing manager asked me to "get the PPAP package ready" for a new stamped bracket, I nodded like I ...

I spent the first decade of my career almost entirely in steel and aluminum, and I'll admit I was skeptical the first ti...

For most of my early years as a mechanical designer, I treated process capability indices like Cp and Cpk as something q...

I still remember the first time a purchasing manager asked me to convert a machined steel bracket to powder metallurgy "...

Every few months for the past several years, someone at whatever manufacturer I'm stationed at asks whether we can just ...