DesignDesign: Week 20…
Goods In
SD-118 arrives in the Site Office through Goods In, named and labelled to the rules. Megan, the document controller, checks the label at the door.
Stage 4 · Design it · Stop 7 of 7 · The right way
Shop drawings
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The right way
Checked and released
Design manager Aisha's team checks it against 051 at C02, catches the openings and sends it back. Fixed, it's authorised at S4 and released to the factory at A5.
BuildBuild: Week 30…
The delivery
The chambers arrive with the openings where the pipes are. The crane drops them in before lunch.
Looks fineAn email to the factory, an old revision, and chambers the wrong way round.
Goods InChecked against the current drawing, authorised, released, and in before lunch.
Now there is: Shop drawing SD-118, checked at Goods In, authorised and released.
What's going on here
A supplier's drawing is information too, and it's the last chance to catch a mistake before concrete sets. Bringing it in through Goods In, checking it against the current design and releasing it properly means the factory makes what the job needs now, not what it needed two versions ago.
New at this stop
- Shop drawing
- A supplier's own detailed drawing of what it will make in its factory.
In the town See it in the town: The supplier draws it too. Which door does that come in?
Shop drawings start in another firm's town: the precast supplier's office, beside its factory, with its own Records Office. SD-118 travels down its home line to the Site Office and stops at Goods In, where Megan checks the label at the door. Then Aisha's team lays it alongside 051 at C02, the current revision on the published shelf, before anyone in the factory picks up a mould. An email to whoever answers skips Goods In and the shelf both, and the factory casts from C01.
Fix it Shop drawings going straight to the factory? Reroute them.
- Ask each supplier where they send shop drawings, and to whom.
- Point them all at Goods In, named and labelled to the job's rules.
- Check each against the current revision before anything is released.
A note for the information manager: Put shop drawings on the parts list with a due date and a named checker, or they will keep arriving as "looks fine" emails.
Try it on your job
How do your suppliers' drawings reach you: through the front door, or by email to whoever answers?
ISO 19650 From the factory to Goods In
| ISO 19650 says | Means | In the town |
|---|---|---|
| Appointed party and task team | Every firm producing information for the job, suppliers included, works to the same agreed rules | The supplier, one more firm sending work to the Site Office |
| Information container | Any named, labelled piece of information, such as a drawing, model or document | SD-118 with its label |
| Review and authorisation | Checking incoming work against the current design and what was asked, before it is released for use | Aisha's team checking SD-118 against 051 C02 |
Based on the ISO 19650 series: the ideas come from the standard; the plain-English wording, examples and advice are InfoTown's. ISO 19650 and its UK National Annex are © ISO and BSI. You'll hear the same language across the industry. Read more for free in the Information Management Initiative (IMI) Framework guidance from BSI and nima. For the full requirements, use the standard itself.