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  • Julio
  • Interview Notes – Former Volocopter Colleague
  • Observed Problems in Current Design Practices
  • Lack of Design Reviews
  • Most design discussions happen informally; no structured or documented review process.
  • Designs often get translated into drawings without formal review checkpoints.
  • Missing design reviews lead to critical issues (e.g., galvanic compatibility not checked).
  • Unclear or Missing Design Guidelines
  • No standardized reference or “bible” for engineers to follow.
  • Rules like thread length, fastener engagement, torque values, material thickness, etc. are often not documented or not enforced.
  • Sometimes unclear where existing design rules even come from.
  • Documentation quality is poor compared to General Electric (GE), where documents were treated as live reference standards.
  • Onboarding New Engineers
  • New engineers are not effectively onboarded into design practices.
  • Training sessions are often ineffective—people may attend but not absorb the rules.
  • No structured values or practices being transferred to new hires.
  • Drawings & Manufacturing Interface
  • Drawings
  • Creating a proper drawing can take up to 8 hours (especially with GD&T, datums, stack-ups).
  • At Volocopter, many people only saw the drawing for the first time when it was released → creates surprise issues.
  • Lack of systematic stack-up analysis and GD&T validation with manufacturing.
  • GD&T / Manufacturing Quality
  • Need dedicated experts (manufacturing, quality, GD&T) to ensure datums and tolerances align with function and manufacturing feasibility.
  • Approval process takes 1–2 days with the team; longer if issues are raised.
  • At GE, drawing creation was highly automated; manual work was mainly in GD&T.
  • Special Case: Harness Design
  • Harnesses routed through engines require careful tolerance consideration.
  • Must balance between:
  • Enough slack for assembly.
  • Not too loose to risk damage.
  • Currently no standardized “recipe” or checklist for harness design.
  • Potential Solutions / Opportunities
  • Automatic Design Review Checklists
  • Integrated tool that automatically checks common design rules (thread length, torque, thickness, bending radius, harness slack, galvanic compatibility).
  • Checklist ensures engineers don’t rely on memory or tribal knowledge.
  • Centralized, Living Design Guidelines
  • A “live database” or VPS for design rules (similar to how GE maintained design documents as bibles).
  • Engineers can update rules as knowledge evolves → reduces ambiguity.
  • Supports 5-sigma level design robustness.
  • Structured Onboarding
  • Instead of “training sessions,” new engineers should have guided checklists embedded into their workflow.
  • Automated tools enforce best practices, so onboarding is less dependent on passive training.
  • Reference Practices from GE
  • Documents treated as authoritative and continuously updated.
  • Drawings could be created in one day because:
  • Most processes were automated.
  • Only GD&T required manual expert work.
  • People Mentioned
  • Volocopter
  • CEO: Artem (Ukrainian, “diamond”)
  • CTO: David (diamond)
  • GD&T experts: Tomascz, Julio
  • Quality: Julio, Serhad
  • Colleague: Frank
  • Lack of design practices
  • Design rule
  • Thread length, engagement of fasteners
  • How much torque?
  • Thickness of materials
  • Starting point of design
  • Lack of deisign guidances
  • On board people - new values
  • Problem
  • No Design reviews
  • Talk about it informally
  • No formal reviews
  • Designs without reviews get translated into drawing
  • Lack of design practices got transferred into drawings
  • Galvanic compatibility is not correct
  • Sometimes even the design practices even are not clear, where they are coming from
  • Documentation is awful
  • IN GE, documents like bible
  • Live documents
  • Harnesses through engine, need tolerance
  • Slack enough for assembly, but not damage
  • Harness Solution
  • Recipe for harness and
  • Solution
  • If there was a checklist, that could be applied to the design
  • Bending radius is thi

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