The aim is to help the UK industry move over more fully to the ISO system of geometrical product specification. It also brings together, in one easy-to-follow document, all the international standards needed to prepare technical product specifications. It covers all of the symbology and information that engineers and designers need to include on their drawings, be they manually produced (2D) or in 3D, created using CAD systems and 3D modelling (computer-aided design). It covers all of the requirements for the technical specification of products and their component parts.Īmong other things, it explains the way in which engineering drawings outline and present these specifications. Users of the former national standard, BS 308īS 8888 is the UKâ€™s national framework standard for engineering drawings and geometrical tolerancing.Independent design consultancies or design agencies handling design and drawing activities.Mechanical engineers, engineering designers and design engineers in the UK who are working in engineering and manufacturing companies, particularly in defence, aerospace, automotive, rail, nuclear and other general manufacturing sectors.

BS 8888 is unique to the UK, but is such a useful document that a number of other countries are now following the UKâ€™s lead and publishing similar national standards to help their industries work with the ISO system. It is the latest version of the standard that was written to supersede BS 308, the worldâ€™s first engineering drawings standard, first published in 1927. Technical product documentation and specificationīS 8888:2016 is the latest edition of the UKâ€™s technical product documentation and specification standard.

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