Shop-Floor

A Reddit thread in r/manufacturing asked how small shops bridge the gap between CAD and production. Twenty-three comments came in — ranging from printed travelers to shared Dropbox folders to custom Fusion 360 dashboards. No two shops described the same system. The only consensus: whatever they’re doing, it’s held together with naming conventions and institutional memory. The CAD-to-production gap is not one problem. It’s four overlapping failures that compound each other, and small fabrication shops feel every one of them because they can’t throw PDM licenses and MES platforms at the problem. ...