Most engineering mistakes aren’t design mistakes.
Most engineering mistakes aren’t design mistakes. They’re information mistakes. A drawing gets emailed. Someone saves a copy. A revision happens. Another team keeps using the old version. Weeks later — the wrong parts are ordered, fabrication stops, and everyone starts looking for who made the mistake . But usually no one did. The real problem is the business never had a controlled engineering information system. Files were being managed, not engineering decisions. Modern engineering teams don’t rely on folders and shared drives anymore. They work inside governed environments where: • Revisions are controlled • Approvals are traceable • Responsibilities are clear • Teams see the same information at the same time Instead of chasing drawings, the organisation operates from a single trusted source of engineering truth. I wrote a short article explaining what engineering data governance actually means in practice and why many projects struggle without it: https://www.hamiltonbydesign....