About Standards
- How Standards Are Developed (ISO)International Organization for Standardization explains their process.
- Recommended Practice for Designation and Organization of StandardsANSI standard for standards
- Standards Organizations (Wikipedia)"A standards organization, standards body, standard-developing organization (SDO), or standard-setting organization (SSO) is any organization whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise producing technical standards that are intended to address the needs of some relatively wide base of affected adopters...."
Standards slideshow
- Engineering Standards & the Design ProcessSlides from Frederick Elder at the University of Wisconsin that give an overview of standard setting and locating standards.
What are standards?
A prescribed set of rules, conditions, or requirements concerning definitions of terms; classification of components; specification of materials, performance, or operations; delineation of procedures; or measurement of quantity and quality in describing materials, products, systems, services, or practices.
National Policy on Standards for the United States and a Recommended Implementation Plan, National Standards Policy Advisory Committee, Washington, D.C.,December, 1978.
Global competitiveness and quality of life are ensured through the development and use of voluntary consensus standards.
James Olshefsky, ASTM Intl.
Books @ NMSU
Sometimes standards can be found "hidden" in books - reprinted in whole or part. There are many books in the general collection that include coverage of industry standards. Below are just a few of the titles that can be checked out.
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