Module 05
Digital engineering workflows
How information moves between models — and why the losses that stop you are the safe ones.
What this module covers
- Map a workflow as handovers rather than as software
- Say what each handover adds, and who owns it
- Distinguish a loud loss from a silent one, and explain why the silent one is worse
- Name the five things that survive no handover in a typical chain
- Choose an exchange route from what the receiving model needs to do
- Write a handover note that makes the next person's checking possible
Lessons
What a workflow actually is, what each step adds, and the five things nothing carries.
Start lesson →Six things that go wrong in a handover, all applied to the same truss, all re-solved.
Start lesson →The unglamorous half of the subject, and the half that actually fails.
Start lesson →
Module checkpoint
Check what you have taken in
3 questions
Question 1
Which kind of exchange loss should worry a reviewing engineer most?
Question 2
A model is sent with 4000 mm² members and arrives with 1000 mm². The sent model's largest deflection was 12.5 mm. What does the received model report?
Question 3
A chain has six handovers, each performed correctly 90 % of the time. What percentage of models arrive at the end with no handover error?