Do you encourage or enforce CAD Standards?

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Do you encourage or enforce CAD Standards?

• Or do you forcibly encourage?
• Or do you encourage forcibly?

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How do you monitor CAD Standard adherence?

• Regular QA Checks on CAD Information and a
  duty of care check on the finished drawing.
• Technical Highlights Explaining additions to
  the Standards and showing the users what is
  checked and more importantly why.

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What is checked?

• Issued information
• Sometimes we will be asked to spot check a
  complete project
• Occasionally we will review a team or office
  across the board
• Randomly select an issue from ISSUES folder
• An issue that has been created in the previous
  month
• If none can be found, the Issue Sheets are
  reviewed

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Name and Shame?

• Team Result Last Rating
• Office 1 Team 1 74 54
• Office 1 Team 2 54 58
• Office 2 Team 1 24 83
• Office 3 Team 2 8
• Office 3 29 90
• Office 4 Team 1 69  
• Office 4 Team 2 48  
• Office 5 98 94
• Office 4 Team 3 15 29
• Office 4 Team 4 68 78
• Office 6 81.5 77
• Office 4 Team 5 87  
• Office 4 Team 6 64  
• Office 4 Team 7 71 74
• Office 4 Team 8 52  
• Office 4 Team 9 78  
• Office 4 Team 10 42 68

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Examples The Good
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Examples The Bad
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Examples The Ugly

• The good
• 3664 Bristol project (but well hide any project
  titles)
• The bad
• 3764 Manchester services project
• The ugly
• 3125

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Why standardise?

• To define the use of CAD to enable the company
  to benefit both in terms of drawing production
  efficiency and in terms of management and
  exchange of data
• CSM 1.2.1
• Its part of our ISO accreditation
• To make sure anyone can work on any project
• To reduce risk
• To safeguard our profitability
• To reduce time spent thinking about CAD
• To increase time spent thinking about design

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Make the CAD Standards more accessible

• Available from
• TECHNICAL gt CAD gt CAD Standard Manual
• whitbybird gt CAD Standard v4.2

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Any questions?