BS 8888:2006 is an integrated systems, an enhanced tool-box and roadmap for technical specification documents. It provides designers, engineers, quality managers and metrologists with a set of requirements for the preparation of all forms of technical product documentation.
The requirements are inter-linked substantially to international and European Standards, implemented as British Standards.
The need for standardized technical product specifications
Developed in response to worldwide business and industry trends, its application can help in:
- Outsourcing/subcontracting to reduce fixed cost overheads
- Global manufacturing resources, with attendant language implications
- Advanced manufacturing techniques increasingly dependent upon digital data transfer
- Sophisticated metrology, applied to verify workpiece functionality.
Using BS 8888 encourages a common system, a common language and a common understanding in the technical product specification area. It will help designers to order their output of design so that a product concept will be fully realized through the manufacturing process, it will ensure users:
- Have access to one reference source with all information
- Speak the same language when specifying and graphically representing products
- Are precise in their application by leaving no room for misinterpretation
- Help the smooth transfer of design concept to manufacturing process
- Shorten product development time
- Increase speed to market
- Save time and money
