[pez1959]

We avoided most of the electrical/mechanical problems by building the electronics board one we knew roughly how big it was and what we needed on it. While the elec ugys were building the board, the mech guys were doing CAD. Suprisingly, when the mech guys had built it and were ready to mout the elec board, the elec guys had finished building, and the programmer had already got it mosly programmed.

That system worked very well for us, and it may be something to consider next year.