Parts List Descriptions (Hardware)

[RichardStarrbuck]

Is there anything in the ASME/ANSI/MIL standards that states how a parts list description should be writen? For hardware specifically.

In my years of working on govt drawing packages majority of the descriptions I wrote (or wrote by following suite of the pre-cursor dwgs) listed what the part actually is FIRST the "comma" the rest of the info or hardware size/type.


For example: MACHINE SCREW, FLAT HEAD, 6-32 X .375"


Rather than: 6-32 X .375" FLAT HEAD MACHINE SCREW


Skimming thru some of the examples in DOD-STD-100 I've found it to be written the way of the first example I gave. Is this a matter of preference, or is it written somewhere that it should be one way or the other? And if it is written in a standard somewhere, can someone tell me where I can find it please?

thanks for the help
-Ricky

 

[KENAT]

ASME Y14.100 section 5 has small section on drawing & item naming 7 it that indicates the same as DOD.

Posting guidelines faq731-376

http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?

(probably not aimed specifically at you)
What is Engineering anyway: faq1088-1484​

 

[ctopher]

Check out 2.1: Part Desc.

Chris
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[CheckerHater]

If you are a masochistic type you may try to get rid of description completely and replace it with PIN per ASME B18.24-2004.
If not, every fastener standard from B18 series should have some sort of “ordering” or “designation” section.

 

[drawoh]

RichardStarrbuck,

Copy your parts list out to a spreadsheet and play with it. That heirarchical naming makes it easy to sort and manipulate data. I want to copy my BOMs out into my requisition forms.

I try very hard to leave commas out of my descriptions. Comma Separated Values[ ](CSV) is a known and fairly popular data format.

I have a book at home by a British officer, written during World War[ ]I, in which he jokes about the heirarchial naming of his PISTOL, OFFICERS, FOR THE USE OF. The concept predates MicroSoft Excel by a few years.

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JHG