Engineering Drawing for Manufacture

The processes of manufacture and assembly are based on the communication of engineering information via drawing. The drawings follow standards, including those laid down by the ISO, so that the accurate transfer of information can be guaranteed. This is imperative because the information contained in an engineering drawing is a legal specification. The ISO standards are designed to be independent of any language and therefore symbology is used. Companies can only operate efficiently if the can guarantee the correct transmission of engineering design information for manufacture.

This book is unique in that it introduces the subject of engineering drawing in the context of standards. It gives a detailed introduction to the subject, and each chapter has the thread of the ISO standards running through it. Standards are updated on a 5-year rolling programme and so this publication contains the most up-to-date information available.

About the Author

Dr. Brian Griffiths is Reader in the Department of Systems Engineering at Brunel University. He is involved in teaching and research concerning manufacturing engineering and metrology. He has undertaken research work concerned with “surface integrity” and manufacturing engineering for some 25 years. He sits on several British Standards Institution (BSI) and International Standards Organisation (ISO) committees. He is currently Chairman of the BSI committee on Design for Manufacture. The author of in excess of 100 papers on the subject of surfaces, he is consultant editor of the Manufacturing Engineering Modular Series and author of Manufacturing Surface Technology, also in this series.