Engineering Project Documentation

The quality of the design and documentation produced has a major influence on
the overall performance and efficiency of production projects. Designers provide
the basic blueprints for representing the ideas and concepts that manufacturers
need to make products a reality. However, it is the quality of the documentation
provided which determines how effective and efficient turn around time is for
production. Inadequate and deficient design and documentation impacts the
production process efficiency by leading to delays, rework and variations,
contributing to increases in project time and cost. But, there are levels before
manufacturing can happen that can delay this process, or even bring production
to a halt. There are a countless number of documentation used throughout every
company. They can range from quality assurance to manufacturing. Without
running through a complete list of all the documentation that a company would
use, we will instead sum the documentation into several categories below.
❖ Management documentation.
❖ Quality assurance.
❖ Engineering documentation.
❖ Fabrication, Assembly, Test, and Installation documents.