Hi guys so in this article I'm going to talk about the kind of work we mechanical and aerospace engineers do in the industry so you know if you see like we have different kind of works like product life cycle management so we need design engineers we need r&d and we need another set manufacturing and we need the maintenance and all.
So if there is a product so we we should able to manage all this stuff right so you know particularly in India or yeah like particularly if we see in India so here our industry is like most of our Indian mechanical aerospace industry is service based industry so we do not have or we have very less product based engineering companies right so if you work in a service based industry we will give the service to another product based companies in terms of development means r&d kind of activities and in terms of engineering changes and in terms of drafting.
So let's see and let's go one by one let's say if you see r&d so we will develop a new concept for the problems and we will test it and we will get the approval for that and we will see the availability of the product in the market and we will release into the market the basic thing idea behind it is we should know how to develop a technology which should solve a particular problem which is raised while we are working on some projects right.
So let's say if you take aero engines like there will be a lot of components so particularly if you take combustion combustor so it's temperatures are very high right so to resist that temperature we need some material which can withstand to that high temperatures right so the problem for that is like what we do we spill liquid in the compressor and in the turbines so that it can withstand a little more temperature you know like overheating and high temperature is the problem and with spraying some liquid like some coolant is the solution for that it is just an example so like that we have to see and we have to come up with a new solutions so that is what r&d guys will do.
when it comes to engineering changes (Service) and manufacturing side engineering changes is something like see already we we have some components we have some product which is already working in the Market or Sites but to reach more needs we will make some changes in that product for that we have to do some changes in the components as well so we'll take all the old components and we'll do the necessary changes and we'll generate a new engineering drawings for them and we will send those things into the manufacturing plants right so that's where we provide servicing.
Another one is the manufacturing so this side whatever the solutions we have developed from the r&d changes so that can be manufactured in the manufacturing plants so by using different kind of manufacturing technology available with us these are the three areas where most of the aerospace and mechanical engineers works guys you might got one doubt saying that like why i am mixing aerospace and mechanical.
In the industry aerospace projects can be executed by the mechanical engineers and mechanical projects can be executed by aerospace engineers so it is just an adaptability so that is the reason i am not differentiating aerospace and mechanical engineers.
Aerospace engineers i know most of the time they work on the aerospace related projects like aero engines and aero structures so mechanical guys also have the same kind of stuff like structural design and everything but you know the way both the industries works is the same like solve the problem get the work done and get the product to be manufactured and get it released into the market and later we'll do the maintenance and also that we will have different engine it's like maintenance engineers right so like this is the kind of work we do guys.
Like most of the time we might not get a chance to work on r&d sometimes we work on r&d and sometimes we work on the engineering changes and sometimes we might have worked only on the engineering drawings preparation for the manufacturing the person who works in the r&d and engineering changes side they might not able to work on the manufacturing side because in the manufacturing we should have idea on each technology how it can be used where it can be used right.
we will know the technology like let's say if you want to create a feature so which manufacturing operation we have to use? that we will know but how we have to operate the tool we might not know right let's say if you say lathe mission or cnc missions like the boring and chamfering grinding all these stuff surface finish actions and everything a person who studies the manufacturing or who works in the manufacturing for several years he will have a better idea than us right but if you see the overall view of product development an engineer should know all these technologies like how the development works and what are the changes we have to do and how the manufacturing will be done right then it will be very easy for him to provide a solution for a problem because ultimately when he's designing something he should know whether it can be manufactured or not right so otherwise there is no use of it of course we have a lot of advanced technologies these days in terms of manufacturing like additive manufacturing and every technology in the industries are rapidly moving towards additive manufacturing for complex parts designing and everything so basically these are the things guys like these are the kind of works we do in the industry.
You might got one doubt like what are the skills required to work in these kind of stuff of course the engineering fundamentals should be very strong particularly structural side and if you are working in a development side particularly we should be good with both in terms of fluids and in terms of solids as well right so particularly like here i'm an aerospace engineer so i'm just going to speak more about aerospace engineering here so for development engineers for aerospace or aero engines like we should be very good with the structures and the fluids and the interaction as well right so there are very complex stresses are going to generate when the solids and fluids meet each other right so we should be good with these fundamentals and of course we should know failure modes.
once we are good with the structures and failures so definitely we can predict the failures and we can solve the problems these are all the things we can be developed with experience but before starting your career it's better to have at least a basic knowledge and engineering fundamentals so that by taking that as a base you can develop your skills it will be like very exciting when you solve a problem and finally it gets manufactured and it is used in the airplane or aero engine or some other industry like automotive or anything so that will be a biggest satisfaction for an engineer i feel.
So once you get your career started if you concentrate more on what's going on how it can be done so these all things can be understood guys but only the thing is you should not deviate from your core interest so sometimes you might deviate or you might demotivate because the kind of work you want to do you might not get but that can be solved by speaking with your project lead or team lead so that they might understand your interest more they might help you out.
So I hope you guys might got a little information about kind of work we do in the in industry so if you guys have any doubts or any problem reach out to me using my social media It would be very much appreciated and ready to help you guys in terms of guidance and all this stuff so see you guys.
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