Hi, Rich, I'm not aware of a standard beyond MIL-STD-100 for Drawing Office Practices. Every Company has its own styles, idiosynchrocies, information requirements, etc. Even different projects within the same company have different styles of presentation, depending on whether or not there is an overall head of function to drive commonality and consistency. The battle to establish consistency is one fought for years in my last Company, and in one division eventually managed to produce something that became a local standard in terms of layout, style, information content, references to other documents such as internal standard operating procedures, operation numbering and a semi-standard set of words for each operation type. Then you're faced with different presentation media - from black and white Instruction Books to full-blown web pages on Intranets with all the colour, animation and other features that can make multi-media documents so much more flexible and interesting to use. I believe we're a long way from establishing a standard for such documents, even if anyone is looking into producing one, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to try. Pete Duncan Asst Principal Engineer ST Aerospace Rich Lasko <RichLasko@BADGERELECTR To: [log in to unmask] ONICS.COM> cc: Sent by: TechNet Subject: [TN] Standards for Engineering Documents <[log in to unmask]> 04/19/01 12:24 AM Please respond to "TechNet E-Mail Forum."; Please respond to Rich Lasko Hello everyone! I am interested in finding out if there is a documented standard(s) for developing engineering/manufacturing documents in the electronics industry. (Ex. standardized symbols, standardized drawing layouts, etc...) I am not really looking for software tools that will assist in developing those documents (ie AutoCAD, etc...) but rather a standard that shows consistency in how manufacturing or engineering documents should look. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Rich Lasko Badger Electronics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------