Fabrication Diagram Protocol

A fabrication diagram is a diagram that shows how all the components (identified as numbers corresponding to fabrication drawings) of a machine go together, and in what order they are assembled together - focusing on the order of fabrication by parallel team (8 or more people or pairs). This allows one to allocate people to tasks. The fabrication diagram shows what tasks may be parallelled. See example at Fabrication Diagram.

Protocol

1. Take all the numbered fabrication drawings.
2. Begin putting in the numbered part drawings numbers on a blank page - in the sequence of their fabrication. Use a Fabrication Diagram Template to show the title block. Limit a single page to 100 parts for readability.
3. Begin connecting these with arrows.
4. Use on online collaborative diagramming tool (google drawing or other) to do this task as a team - say 6-12 people.
5. Determine all the tasks that can be done in parallel assuming that an infinite number of people and an infinited number of workshop machines are available.