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To Help You Measure Up in the
World of Engineering
Chris Morris
Austin Macauley Publishers
2021-02-26
Chris studied mechanical and production engineering at Nottingham Trent Polytechnic.
He worked within the engineering industry for 49 years, starting as an apprentice at age 16 with Royal Ordnance (UK MoD), BAE Systems, JCB Ltd and other organisations. He was responsible for the design and production of highly complex precision products.
During his long career, his roles have included technician apprentice, skilled fitter, assistant foreman, drawing office draughtsman, production engineer, tooling engineer, leading CAD draughtsman, CAD supervisor, engineering design services team leader and senior design engineer.
He has witnessed and summarised numerous wise-working practices, which have been shared in his book.
He lives in Nottingham and is married with two sons.
To Helen Morris
Chris Morris (2021)
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The following tips are in addition to your technical training and are for basic guidance only from my perspective as a mechanical design and production engineer and include many personal opinions.
You should always consult your company standards and procedures for approved working methods.
I have been employed by some excellent engineering organisations in my 49-year career, these have included:
The Ministry of Defence Royal Ordnance Factory in Nottingham. I served my apprenticeship there and learned from some highly skilled people. I studied mechanical and production engineering during and after my apprenticeship. Not long after finishing my apprenticeship, I was given a go at being an assistant foreman in the fitting department. After that, I started work in the production drawing office designing jigs, fixtures, tools, gauges and general equipment also product design work and became CAD Supervisor training approximately sixty CAD operators.
The jobs Ive held at Royal Ordnance were:
Engineering design services team leader
CAD system supervisor
Tooling engineer
Production engineer
Leading CAD draughtsman
Production drawing office draughtsman
Assistant foreman fitting department
Skilled fitter
Ministry of Defence technician apprentice
The factory produced many types of precision engineering products, from small arms to heavy artillery and armoured vehicles, so the design work was extremely varied and complex.
After the ordnance factory closed in 2001, I worked for a design contract company and carried out CAD design work for BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, J C Bamford Ltd and other companies. It was interesting to experience the very different ways of working between the companies even though they were generally using the same design, production and business software!
I became a permanent employee at JCB Ltd and was a senior design engineer, helping to design some of the many tools that can be attached to construction machines. I also worked on vehicle upgrade kits and manuals for worldwide distribution, working with people in countries such as India, China and the USA. All varied and complex work which I enjoyed learning about right up until my last day.
Ive helped with the design of many military weapons and armoured vehicles, probably best if I dont go into details as Ive signed the official secrets act! It was all precision engineering, with highly complex strong forces and very interesting to design.
Ive designed hundreds of machining fixtures, welding fixtures, drill jigs, machining tools, inspection gauges and various types of production equipment and also created thousands of production stage drawings for manufacture.
Ive also been involved in the design of military weapons, armoured vehicles, construction vehicles and construction equipment.
I started to design using a drawing board in 1972. A CAD workstation appeared in the drawing office in 1985, so from then onwards I used computer design, starting with wire frame models and around 1995 using solid modelling. I was trained mainly in Unigraphics NX and also in ProEngineer, Autocad and Ferretti CAMX.
Just to demonstrate how computers have improved, in the early days, I managed to slow down all the computers on the factory site where I worked. All our computers were run from a mainframe which filled a room. Our first CAD was 2D lines only, which would slowly and gracefully appear on the screen, this then developed to 3D wireframe. I naively thought I would try out some 3D solid modelling, this stopped my computer and slowed the whole mainframe, resulting in a slapped wrist from the IT manager. I had to wait a few more years before having another go when computers had vastly improved.
Here are some tips that you wont see in a reference book. They will help prevent new design engineers being a LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER and to plan ahead!
Chris Morris
For guidance only and shows Best Practice
Create your own guides to help employees. Complex CAD software can be used in many different ways. This is very confusing for all concerned, so its best to have a guide.
Make sure that all CAD designers Use the software in a similar way. This will reduce the likelihood of errors and make it easier when multiple designers are working on the same job.
See Appendix B for an example of a CAD guide.
Make sure your CAD workstations are fully occupied if possible. The cost of a workstation is about the same as employing a design engineer, as yearly software licences are very expensive. You may be pressured by management into reducing the number of workstations if they are seen to be unused. You may also end up having to hot-desk where a number of designers have to use the same workstation on rotation.
Consider the Layout of your CAD workstations. At Royal Ordnance we had a CAD Room with about 15 CAD Workstations used mainly by permanent CAD operators. This worked well. If an operator had a CAD problem they would shout out, Anyone know how to? and they usually got help straight away. When CAD workstations where scattered around the large design office, this didnt happen of course.
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