The answer to this question is: not necessarily.
Most of them are not, and a few are, but those who really start from drawing, the basic design skills are often not solid, and the chance of being “greeted ancestors” by others will greatly increase.
Therefore, if you can choose, it’s best not to start with drawing, because the road to go always needs to be taken step by step. If you want to get enough technical ability to be a person in the machinery industry, you will never get around. Open production line and workshop.
In fact, for an enterprise with a complete R&D training mechanism, the training of all its technical personnel is based on a “rotational system” at the beginning . Especially for the training of structural R&D personnel, it is absolutely a rotation system.
The so-called “rotation system” refers to: in order to cultivate the technical comprehensiveness of technical personnel more comprehensively, newly recruited technical personnel are placed in various technical positions of the company for rotation internship, so as to have a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the company’s product production process And related technical points to improve the professional technical ability and work efficiency of technical personnel.
“Rotation system” requires courage for enterprises, because it is a talent training mechanism that is extremely costly for enterprises . Not every enterprise is willing to bear such training costs. This is also why many small and medium-sized enterprises do not find new candidates. The reason for the graduates is because they can’t afford to play.
Therefore, many newcomers to small enterprises are basically training models of the “barbaric growth” type; and only those large state-owned enterprises will have such an in-depth training model for talents, because they can absorb such training costs. As a social responsibility of state-owned enterprises.
Of course, this is also what I have always suggested that newcomers should first find a state-owned enterprise for two years. Although the salary will be lower, these two years are your growth period. You need to have a learning and self-growth mentality. To experience the workplace, rather than seeking a good salary, because you basically do not have the equivalent ability and value to exchange for a good salary.
You can only “learn the arts and martial arts” before you can sell yourself for a good price. Before you can make yourself valuable, you still need to go through the incubation period of “don’t use the dragon”, which is also the growth of life. An inevitable stage.
Then let’s talk about it next. For a mechanical design engineer, if he enters a “rotation system” training mode, what positions will he likely go through?
Based on my personal experience and observation, I think the following positions are very common rotation positions:
A. Machining process position : This position will lay a solid foundation for your design. Many of your design principles and thinking entry points will be based on the cognition established by this position, so this position is for all mechanical designers A position that needs to be experienced seriously. If you do not have the professional and technical capabilities of this position as support, you cannot really design a product.
This position involves the preparation of a large number of professional and technical capabilities, such as material selection, processing technology requirements, processing method selection, processing cost accounting, production cycle accounting, product performance expectations, etc. This is a post that a mechanical design engineer must pass. Even if you can bypass this position at the beginning of the job, you still need to make up this lesson after you actually start your product design.
A good mechanical design engineer must be a good mechanical process engineer. This is a basic problem.
B. Product assembly technology position : The experience of this position can give you a lot of more perceptual and rational understanding in structural processing. As far as the mechanical profession is concerned, many things are indeed based on principles, but for As far as a product is concerned, the principle is not absolute. Many things also involve the processing of details, and the assembly technology position allows you to better penetrate these details and make your design more perfect and realistic.
Many people always think that this kind of first-line stuff is very low-end and has no grade, and as a high-end talent, you should not be buried in such an environment, but it is like swimming. You have to find a small river first. Try water. If you don’t even bother to enter a small river, how will you fight the sea in the future?
C. Quality inspection technical post : In fact, this post does not have much professional and technical ability, but this post can cultivate your quality attitude. Many things are the reliability and stability of a product not simply because of design. , It is a comprehensive reason for processing, assembly and procurement.
And the quality position allows you to establish a more comprehensive quality control awareness, so that you have a deeper understanding of where is the cornerstone of a good product? How does a good technician match product quality and how to consider product quality.
D. Product sales technical position : This is a position that is connected to the product market. It allows you to learn to examine the company’s products from the perspective of customers and the market, and to maximize the optimization of the company’s product structure and technical performance. I feel that all product development personnel should go to this position to experience it.
Only in this way can we avoid the so-called “closed door” self-driving design, but truly follow the market and customer needs to design, make products, and provide services. This is where mechanical design engineers lack the most.
E. Production planning management position : This is a position that is most familiar with the product production process. For a mechanical design engineer, familiarity with the company’s product production process, production capacity, production cycle, production bottleneck, etc. is a good product design Basic literacy.
This is like a chef. We have to look at the cooking. What kind of materials and abilities do you have? You can do what kind of banquet. The product research and development of the company is the same. The products are made according to the production advantages and resources of the company R&D is also a very important job recognition.
Therefore, going through such a position is very beneficial for a mechanical design engineer.
At the same time, through the exercise and training of the above various positions, we can further enhance our personal comprehensive understanding of the workplace while improving our professional and technical capabilities, including the improvement of various comprehensive capabilities, which will be useful for our future career expansion and in-depth development Has a very big advantage.
This is the real training step for a mechanical design engineer. As for the so-called drawing, it is a small part, not to say that it is not important, but it is very incomplete and not worthy of focus.