The Election of Materials in the Design of Machinery, of the plan to the workshop, the key is in the Collaboration Interdepartamental
In the development of industrial machinery, one of the most critical appearances —and often subestimados— is the correct selection of materials. It does not treat only to choose a more resistant metal or a lighter polymer; it treats to take decisions that impact directly in the functionality, durability, costs and ease of manufacture of the machines. In this process, the collaboration among the departments of engineering, shopping and workshop is not alone desirable: it is essential.
Why it is so important the selection of materials?
The material of each component of a machine affects his performance, resistance to the wear, behaviour in front of extreme conditions (temperature, corrosion, load),total weight and ease of maintenance. Besides, a bad election can comport premature failures, extra costs in maintenance or even the need of rediseñar whole parts of the system.
The engineers have to take no only the mechanical and thermal properties, but also the availability of the material, his behaviour in processes of mechanised and welding, and the times of delivery. Here it is where goes in at stake the collaboration with other departments.
Engineering, Shopping and Workshop: a strategic alliance
Design without take the reality of the workshop or the restrictions of the department of shopping can spend to solutions theoretically brilliant, but impassable in the practice. For example, select an ideal alloy in terms of performance, but that it was difficult to achieve locally or that involve processes of complex and costly manufacture, can ralentizar the production or put up the price of the final product.
Shopping: optimising costs and terms
The squad of shopping contributes a fundamental vision: it knows the providers, the real terms of delivery, the changes in the prices of the market and the available viable alternatives. Involve them from the phase of design helps to anticipate possible collars of logistical bottle and to find equivalent materials more economic or of better availability.
Workshop: the practical experience
The personnel of the workshop or production, by his part, has the direct experience with the real behaviour of the materials during the mechanised, the assembling and the set. They can alert on recurrent difficulties, unexpected wear, thermal deformations or problems in weldings that no always evidencian in a technical plan.
The key: design adapted to the reality
The design of machinery has to be an activity integradora. Involve to shopping and to the workshop in the early phases of the design allows to create machines no only efficient and durable, but also fabricables of realistic way, profitable and agile.
This does not mean to renounce to the innovation, but rather translate it in applicable solutions. Range the expectations of engineering with the operative and commercial reality is a strategic investment that generates value on a long-term basis.
In conclusion, the selection of materials can not treat like an isolated decision of the department of engineering. It has to be an exercise colaborativo, where each part —buy, workshop, engineering— contribute his experience to attain a design balanced, functional and viable. In some industrial surroundings increasingly competitive, the efficiency no only measures in technical performance, but also in the capacity to convert an idea in a real product that can manufacture , maintain and sell successfully. And this begins, largely, with choosing well the materials... And with working in squad.
Why it is so important the selection of materials?
The material of each component of a machine affects his performance, resistance to the wear, behaviour in front of extreme conditions (temperature, corrosion, load),total weight and ease of maintenance. Besides, a bad election can comport premature failures, extra costs in maintenance or even the need of rediseñar whole parts of the system.
The engineers have to take no only the mechanical and thermal properties, but also the availability of the material, his behaviour in processes of mechanised and welding, and the times of delivery. Here it is where goes in at stake the collaboration with other departments.
Engineering, Shopping and Workshop: a strategic alliance
Design without take the reality of the workshop or the restrictions of the department of shopping can spend to solutions theoretically brilliant, but impassable in the practice. For example, select an ideal alloy in terms of performance, but that it was difficult to achieve locally or that involve processes of complex and costly manufacture, can ralentizar the production or put up the price of the final product.
Shopping: optimising costs and terms
The squad of shopping contributes a fundamental vision: it knows the providers, the real terms of delivery, the changes in the prices of the market and the available viable alternatives. Involve them from the phase of design helps to anticipate possible collars of logistical bottle and to find equivalent materials more economic or of better availability.
Workshop: the practical experience
The personnel of the workshop or production, by his part, has the direct experience with the real behaviour of the materials during the mechanised, the assembling and the set. They can alert on recurrent difficulties, unexpected wear, thermal deformations or problems in weldings that no always evidencian in a technical plan.
The key: design adapted to the reality
The design of machinery has to be an activity integradora. Involve to shopping and to the workshop in the early phases of the design allows to create machines no only efficient and durable, but also fabricables of realistic way, profitable and agile.
This does not mean to renounce to the innovation, but rather translate it in applicable solutions. Range the expectations of engineering with the operative and commercial reality is a strategic investment that generates value on a long-term basis.
In conclusion, the selection of materials can not treat like an isolated decision of the department of engineering. It has to be an exercise colaborativo, where each part —buy, workshop, engineering— contribute his experience to attain a design balanced, functional and viable. In some industrial surroundings increasingly competitive, the efficiency no only measures in technical performance, but also in the capacity to convert an idea in a real product that can manufacture , maintain and sell successfully. And this begins, largely, with choosing well the materials... And with working in squad.
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