

"A bachelor of science or higher degree in mechanical engineering, material science engineering, or equivalent, is required. Today, there is no standard engineering documentation training readily available. Standards were the basis of all engineering design and documentation. The following article shows the lack of thought that goes into a PMI from a large aircraft firm. His answer "Standards are only guidelines." My associate was shocked knowing that standards are the implementation of proven processes.

One of my associates, working at a large aerospace firm, explained to the engineering manager that the documentation was not to the company standards. Its application is basically defined on the fly. In fact companies like Boeing have implemented the bizarre PMI that was introduced by PLM and MBE. With the elimination of the drafting group this mentored based system is disappearing or has disappeared altogether.Įngineering Documentation is not on the engineering schools radar. I have recently realized there is no training available for today's engineering documentation. This article only focuses on the Industrial/Mechanical Engineer and the other industries that are associated, i.e, Industrial Design, Product Design or others that produce usable 3D CAD models and documentation.Īs you can see below the engineer is now required to provide the engineering documentation. Educating the New Millennial 3D CAD Engineer
