Friday, August 31, 2012

Summing Up Mechanical Design

Mechanical Design, as a 21st century process, is as important as any other design component involved in making machines, tools and other equipments.


From the days of analog design, mechanical design has reached new levels catapulting through digital innovation. It retains the effervescent state of being an inevitable part of any machine-making.

In many cases of product life cycle management, mechanical design becomes the basis for product development.

Tools like AutoCAD have vastly improved the way mechanical designs are drafted and used.

Flexibility, versatility and plenty of other factors weigh in during the design stage and computer-aided design has helped mechanical design be easily accessible and modifiable.

A huge spread of industries uses mechanical design to produce designs of tools, equipments or entire assemblies before the deployment / construction.

Some of These Include:
  • Aerospace
  • marine
  • civil
  • electrical
  • chemical
  • oil/petroleum
  • automotive
  • architectural

When one thinks of mechanical design, a lot of processes are involved. Since mechanical design is answerable to the physical behavior of whatever object / component is designed, it has to be highly accurate in presenting the effects, functioning and stability of the system being designed.

These days, outsourcing mechanical design has become a standardized mode of getting the job done faster with emphasis on accuracy and perfection.

Companies offering mechanical design services have spread all over the globe. Services they offer are not limited to simple mechanical design alone.

They Include:
  • mechanical drafting
  • reverse engineering
  • finite element analysis
  • computational fluid dynamics
  • 3D modeling

Each industry has a specific set of requirements and based on this, the mechanical design requirement changes.

It is necessary that the companies that involve in mechanical drafting and design outsourcing focus on the exact specifications of their clients in order to produce useful, stable and versatile mechanical designs.

Modelers and drafters can produce mechanical designs from photographs, raster images, rough sketches and pretty much every basic nugget of information that the client offers.

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Nikunj Patel is an Engineering Consultant at MEP Design Services. The MEP Design Services is a India based Mechanical Design and Engineering Service Provider firm. Nikunj is expert in mechanical design, drafting and mechanical 3D modeling.

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