MDPSM or DRM?

[Muffintop]

Starting from scratch with our drafting standards / best practices documentation. I am going to select a Manual for our engineering department to work with. I have narrowed it down to these two manuals. If you work or have worked with either the

Modern Drafting Practices and Standard Manual

and/or the

Drawing Requirements Manual

What is your take? Would you recomend it? And why?
Thank you in advance for your advice.

 

[ewh]

Could you give us a little more info, such as a link or publisher... many of the companies that I have worked with have DRMs, and they are not the same thing everywhere, but a fairly generic title.
I would have to guess that MDPSM is the Genium manual, but am too lazy to find out myself.

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[Muffintop]

"Genium" Modern Draftng Practices and Standards (Originally a GE manual)

Drawing Requirements Manual; Author - Jerome H Lieblich
(I found reference to it in these forums - it is available on Amazon)

 

[ewh]

I'm not familiar with that DRM, but the Genium manual is a good one, and I have used it for drafting departments in the past along with a relatively small document (which was generally called the "DRM", which is the reason for my previous post) noting any practices to be followed that are not covered or do not agree with the Genium manual. While the Genium manual is comprehensive, I don't think it reasonable to expect any one commercially available manual to be able to address all concerns of all industries.
Hopefully someone familiar with both will offer their advice.

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[dgallup]

Do you have existing drawings? What standard(s) were they made to? That was our primary concern when we were sold from one company to another. Our original owner had their own corporate standards while the new one did not. So we had to write our own manual explicitly stating which standards we use and any exceptions. The over riding goal was to keep the interpretation of the existing drawings the same. We did not want to have to go back through a couple of decades of old drawings and redraw them.

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[KENAT]

I'd try and stick as close to the baseline ISO or ASME stds if you can.

Both the Genium and Global DRM are pretty bulky documents. Don't get me wrong, they have a lot in them, but I never found them as useful as the actual ASME stds themselves.

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[CheckerHater]

Both are not perfect. I posted my opinion here recently:

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=310388

Basically, both are falling behind latest standard revisions.

 

[ewh]

I agree with CheckerHater (as well as with ex-checker KENAT). I've yet to find a "perfect" manual, which is why I noted the company written supplement. The best source for standard practices would be the standards themselves, but it can sometimes be tricky in areas not consistently addressed by any of them. That is one of the reasons for the often used caveat of illustrations being accurate only to the extent of the subject being addressed.

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