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GEL/3 - Documentation and graphical symbols

Sector: Manufacturing

Categories: Electric furnaces | Information technology applications. General | Character symbols | Information technology. | Cells and batteries. Primary | Data communication networks | Connecting devices | Multimedia systems and teleconferencing equipment | Electrical wires and cables. General | Components. Magnetic | Characteristics and design of machines, apparatus, equipment | Wind turbine energy systems | IT applications. Office work | Documents | Cables | Electronics | Domestic and commercial equipment. Miscellaneous | Information sciences. | Technical drawings | Drawings. Electrical and electronics engineering | Cells and batteries. Acid secondary | IT applications. Information, documentation and publishing | Relays | Information technology applications | Fibre optic systems. General | Heaters. Gas | Graphical symbols. Specific equipment | Piezoelectric devices | Electrical apparatus. Explosive atmospheres | | Public information symbols | Transformers. Reactors | IT applications. Transport and trade | Printed circuits and boards | Technical product documentation | Information coding. Character sets | Standardization. General rules | Measurement. Light | Ergonomics | Fibre optic interconnecting devices | Lamps. General | Computer-aided design (CAD) | Metrology and measurement. | Measurement. Electrical and magnetic quantities | Colour coding | Power transmission and distribution lines | Electronic tubes | Graphical symbols for use on mechanical engineering and construction drawings, diagrams, plans, maps and in relevant technical product documentation | Electricity supply | Multilayer applications | Telecommunication systems. Other | Components. Electric and electromechanical | Heaters. Solid fuel | Switchgear and controlgear. General | Industrial automation systems. General | Electronic components. General | Telecommunications. General | Information technology. Languages | Capacitors. Fixed | Rectifiers. Converters. Stabilized power supply | Information technology. General | Telecontrol. Telemetering | Semiconductor devices. General | Environmental impact assessment | Accident and disaster control | Integrated circuits. Microelectronics | Fibre optic equipment. Other | Mechanical structures for electronic equipment | Services. Industrial | Graphical symbols for use on electrical and electronics engineering drawings, diagrams, charts and in relevant technical product documentation | Housings, enclosures, other machine parts | Terminology. Principles and coordination | Quantities and units | Graphical symbols | IT applications. Industry | Plug-and-socket devices. Connectors | Safety. Domestic | Information sciences | Writing and transliteration | Components and accessories. General | Rotating machinery. General | Graphical symbols for use on information technology and telecommunications technical drawings and in relevant technical product documentation | Graphical symbols. General | Industrial process measurement and control | Electrical engineering | Safety. Machinery | Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation. | Electrical engineering. General

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, is responsible for providing the UK input into the work of IEC/TC 3 and for British Standards for in the field of methods and rules associated with the human interpretation of information in the field of documentation; presentation of information in technical documentation; graphical symbols for use in technical documentation; graphical symbols for the human interaction with equipment; methods and rules associated with the handling of information in computer sensible form.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (43)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PNW 3D-438 ED1: Digitalization of Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP) – Part 1: Exchange data model for carbon footprint of products

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-04-29
Proposal
PNW 3-1731 ED1: Generic specification of information of products by properties - Part 2: Structure of specification

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-05-21
Proposal
PNW 3-1702 ED1: Intelligent information request and delivery - A process model for the exchange of information for use

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-02-11
Proposal
PNW 3-1683 ED1: Digital Interactive Fault Diagnosis Manual

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2024-09-24
Proposal
PNW 3-1658 ED1 INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL VOCABULARY (IEV) - Part XXX: Documentation, graphical symbols and technical representations of information

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2024-03-27
Proposal
PNW 3-1652 ED1: Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products -- Structuring principles and reference designation -- Part 20: Aircraft systems

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2024-02-14
Proposal
PNW 3-1601 ED1: Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products -- Structuring principles and reference designation -- Part 14: Manufacturing systems

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Manufacturing engineering | Industrial automation systems | Industrial automation systems. General

Proposal begins : 2023-01-24
Proposal
PD ISO 81346-10 Ed.1.0 Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products - Structuring principles and reference designation -. Part 10: Power plants

Categories: Unclassified documents

Public comment begins :
Public comment
PD IEC/TR 63266 Ed 1.0 Documentation of communication in power utility automation

Categories: Unclassified documents

Approval begins :
Approval
NWIP EN IEC 61360-7:2024 ED1 - Standard data element types with associated classification scheme - Part 7: Data dictionary of cross-domain concepts

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules

Proposal begins : 2025-02-03
Proposal
Published (57)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD ISO/IEC Guide 75:2006 Strategic principles for future IEC and ISO standardization in industrial automation

Categories: Standardization. General rules | Industrial automation systems. General

Published standard begins : 2007-02-12
Published standard
PD IEC/TS 63064:2018 Graphical symbols for diagrams. Guidance on design for standardization in IEC 60617

Categories: Graphical symbols for use on electrical and electronics engineering drawings, diagrams, charts and in relevant technical product documentation | Graphical symbols for use on information technology and telecommunications technical drawings and in relevant technical product documentation | Electrical engineering. General | Electronic components. General

Published standard begins : 2018-02-16
Published standard
PD IEC/TS 62771:2012 Information model covering the contents of IEC 81346-1 and IEC 81346-2, IEC 61175, IEC 61666 and IEC 81714-3

Categories: Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation. | Information technology.

Published standard begins : 2012-08-20
Published standard
PD IEC/TS 62768:2012 Preparation and processing of source definitions for data element types. Guidelines for product committees

Categories: Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation. | Information technology. | Technical product documentation

Published standard begins : 2012-08-23
Published standard
PD IEC/TS 62720:2017 Identification of units of measurement for computer-based processing

Categories: Information technology. | Quantities and units | IT applications. Transport and trade

Published standard begins : 2017-02-07
Published standard
PD IEC/TS 62666:2016 Guidelines for the inclusion of documentation aspects in product standards

Categories: Technical product documentation

Published standard begins : 2016-08-22
Published standard
PD IEC/TS 62656-2:2013 Standardized product ontology register and transfer by spreadsheets. Application guide for use with the IEC common data dictionary (CDD)

Categories: Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation. | Technical product documentation

Published standard begins : 2013-10-02
Published standard
PD IEC/TR 62964:2015 Graphical symbols for use on equipment. Graphical symbols for multimedia equipment. Current practice

Categories: Graphical symbols. Specific equipment | Multimedia systems and teleconferencing equipment

Published standard begins : 2015-05-27
Published standard
PD IEC/TR 62711:2011 Mnemonics and designations of symbols for measuring relays, instruments and related device

Categories: Graphical symbols for use on electrical and electronics engineering drawings, diagrams, charts and in relevant technical product documentation | Relays | Rectifiers. Converters. Stabilized power supply

Published standard begins : 2011-11-14
Published standard
PD IEC/TR 61734:2006 Application of symbols for binary logic and analogue elements

Categories: Graphical symbols for use on mechanical engineering and construction drawings, diagrams, plans, maps and in relevant technical product documentation | Electrical engineering. General | Electronic components. General

Published standard begins : 2006-08-25
Published standard
Withdrawn (34)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD IEC/TS 62720:2013 Identification of units of measurement for computer-based processing

Categories: Quantities and units | IT applications. Industry

Withdrawn begins : 2017-02-07
Withdrawn
PD IEC/TR 62154:2005 Terminology in the area of Information structures, documentation and graphical symbols

Categories: Generalities. Terminology. Standardization. Documentation. | Electrical engineering. General

Withdrawn begins : 2012-06-18
Withdrawn
DD IEC/TS 62666:2010 Guidelines for the inclusion of documentation aspects in product standards

Categories: Technical product documentation

Withdrawn begins : 2016-08-22
Withdrawn
DD IEC/PAS 62569-1:2009 Generic specification of information on products. Principles and methods

Categories: Technical product documentation | Electrical engineering. General

Withdrawn begins : 2017-10-25
Withdrawn
DD IEC/PAS 62400:2005 Structuring principles for technical products and technical product documentation. Letter codes. Main classes and subclasses of objects according to their purpose and task

Categories: Technical product documentation

Withdrawn begins : 2010-01-15
Withdrawn
DD IEC/PAS 61906:2005 Procedure for the declaration of materials in products of the electrotechnical and electronics industry

Categories: Technical product documentation | Environmental impact assessment | Electrical engineering. General | Electronic components. General

Withdrawn begins : 2012-08-21
Withdrawn
BS EN 82079-1:2012 Preparation of instructions for use. Structuring, content and presentation. General principles and detailed requirements

Categories: Technical product documentation | Electrical engineering. General

Withdrawn begins : 2023-12-06
Withdrawn
BS EN 81714-2:1999, IEC 81714-2:1998 Design of graphical symbols for use in the technical documentation of products. Specification for graphical symbols in a computer sensible form, including graphical symbols for a reference library, and requirements for their interchange

Categories: Graphical symbols for use on electrical and electronics engineering drawings, diagrams, charts and in relevant technical product documentation | Technical product documentation

Withdrawn begins : 2007-04-20
Withdrawn
BS EN 81346-2:2009 Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products. Structuring principles and reference designations. Classification of objects and codes for classes

Categories: Technical product documentation | Electrical engineering. General

Withdrawn begins : 2022-08-19
Withdrawn
BS EN 81346-1:2009 Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial product. Structuring principles and reference designations. Basic rules

Categories: Technical product documentation | Electrical engineering. General

Withdrawn begins : 2025-05-14
Withdrawn