Final Little Blazer Engine assembly
Little Blazer Engine
Designed and managed the full product lifecycle assembly of a flame-powered Stirling-cycle engine for a computer-aided design and Product Data Management (PDM) curriculum. Working from engineering drawings with incomplete dimensions, I reverse-engineered the missing design intent to create fully defined parametric models. The finalized assembly was successfully constrained to validate mechanical synchronization and kinematics, as demonstrated in the physical simulation.
Advanced CAD & Parametric Modeling:
Utilized Siemens NX to develop fully constrained 3D parametric components from incomplete 2D engineering data.
Applied design-intent methodologies to dynamically manage variable dimensions across mating components, ensuring seamless geometric updates.
Generated standard production-ready engineering drawings, including detailed assembly layouts and exploded views.
Product Data Management (PDM) & Lifecycle Tracking:
Managed all project files, revisions, and metadata using Siemens Teamcenter to maintain a centralized product data repository.
Leveraged Teamcenter workflows and change-management protocols to track component status, manage version histories, and streamline collaborative engineering data streams.
Practiced robust revision control to ensure accurate synchronization of multi-part assemblies throughout the development cycle.
Final Assembly Components