Documents for Production
Student Tip 
Production personnel need clear, specific documents to help them make the product.
Once a product is selected, designed, and ready for production, production is assisted by a variety of documents. We will briefly review some of these.
An assembly drawing simply shows an exploded view of the product. An assembly drawing is usually a three-dimensional drawing, known as an isometric drawing; the relative locations of components are drawn in relation to each other to show how to assemble the unit [see Figure 5.11(a)].
The assembly chart shows in schematic ...
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