The following mastered you can do a good job of product design.
But, you product design also do, mold design also do, it is indeed more difficult!
The main responsibilities of the product structure engineer
Generally speaking, the main responsibilities of the product structure engineer include:
1, participate in the feasibility study of the product project, participate in the design of the system program;
2, to prepare the structural design program and the project plan, the research and development of the new structure of the new technology, to improve the performance and quality of the product;
3, to undertake the detailed design of the product structure, components and parts. Undertake the detailed design of product structure and components;
4, Undertake the development of prototypes, debugging and related technologies;
5, tolerance analysis and DFMA (design for manufacturing and assembly) checks;
6, mold review with manufacturing engineers;
7, mold sample review, design changes and parts of the final recognition;
8, for EMI, ESD, safety and reliability of various tests to provide mechanical support;
9, to solve problems in product development, problem tracking, and discuss technical issues with customers;
10, for the mass production of products to provide technical support;
Generally speaking, a good product structural engineers need to master the main skills include:
1, basic mechanical design knowledge;
2, proficiency in plastic parts, sheet metal and die casting parts design; that is, manufacturing-oriented design; to ensure that the parts design is simple, high quality, less defects, low manufacturing costs, while the corresponding mold structure is simple, easy mold manufacturing and processing.
3, proficiency in product assembly design skills; that is, assembly-oriented design; product assembly and product manufacturing is equally important, product assembly should make the assembly process is simple, assembly efficiency, assembly defects, assembly cost is low and assembly quality is high; commonly used assembly design guidelines include reducing the number of parts, simplify the structure of the product, standardization of parts, modularization of the product, the design of stable Commonly used assembly design guidelines include reducing the number of parts, simplifying product structure, standardizing parts, modularizing products, designing stable bases, designing guiding features, locating parts before fixing them, error-proofing design, ergonomic design, and so on. Detailed guidelines can be found in the "Guide to Product Design for Manufacturing and Assembly" published by Mechatronics Press. The book also includes plastic parts design guide, sheet metal parts design guide, die casting parts design guide and tolerance analysis, etc.; proficiency in these design guides can ensure that the product design products in the shortest possible time, the lowest cost and the highest quality.
4, master tolerance analysis knowledge; tolerance analysis can be used to optimize the quality of product design and product development to solve practical problems encountered;
5, familiar with the related materials, molds and surface treatment processes and other knowledge;
6, with the analysis of problems and problem-solving capabilities; product development will inevitably arise in many problems, analysis of problems and the ability to solve problems is essential. Problem solving ability is crucial.
7, familiar with the product development process, especially for manufacturing and assembly product development process, good product development process can help product structure engineers to reduce design changes, shorten the product development time and improve the quality of product development;
8, familiar with the related product testing requirements, such as EMI, ESD, safety and reliability, etc., and design products to meet the requirements of these Requirements;
9, familiar with the relevant product industry standards;
10, 3D and 2D software knowledge, commonly used 3D software, including Pro/E, UG, Solidworks, Catia, etc., proficiency in one of them can be; commonly used 2D software is AutoCAD;
11, a good spirit of innovation; can study TRIZ related theoretical knowledge.
12, teamwork; the success of product development can not be separated from the team's cooperation, product structure engineers can not fully grasp the product manufacturing and assembly, testing and other aspects of the knowledge of product engineers should be able to work with manufacturing engineers and assembly engineers and test engineers and other teamwork, so as to improve the quality of product development.