Construction Drawing Abbreviations. The following is a list of abbreviations found on a typical set of construction drawings designed to help you interpret information on your blueprints.
IDMS. IDMS is primarily a network database management system for mainframes. It was first developed at B.F. Goodrich and later marketed by Cullinane Database Systems. Since 1989 the product has been owned by Computer Associates, who renamed it Advantage CA-IDMS and later simply to CA IDMS.
PIMS (production information management system) Also known as a âprocess information management system,â a PIMS is a client/server application for the acquisition, display, archiving and reporting of information from a wide variety of control, plant and business systems.