Links - Standards

Please find a selection of useful reading material listed below.

BSI - British Standards Institute

ANSI - American National Standards Institute

ISO - International Standards Organisation

IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission - The International Electrotechnical Commission is the international standards and conformity assessment body for all fields of electrotechnology.

UL - Underwriters Laboratories - Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) is an independent, not-for-profit product safety testing and certification organization. They have tested products for public safety for more than a century. Each year, more than 14 billion UL Marks are applied to products worldwide.

CEN - The European Committee for Standardization - CEN's mission is to promote voluntary technical harmonization in Europe in conjunction with worldwide bodies and its partners in Europe. In Europe, CEN works in partnership with CENELEC - the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization CENELEC and ETSI - the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (www.etsi.fr).

CEN/ISSS - Information Society Standardization System

ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute - The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is a non-profit making organization whose mission is to determine and produce the telecommunications standards that will be used for decades to come.

ITU - International Telecommunications Union - The ITU, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland is an international organization within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services.

WSSN - World Standards Services Network - network of publicly accessible World Wide Web servers of standards organizations around the world.

Standards Documentation for Computers & Communications

NSSN - National Standards System Network - A National Resource for Global Standards serves as a central point to search for standards information from many sources and serves as an important gateway connecting those who seek standards to those that supply them.

WorldFIP - Vendor Independant Open Fieldbus Standard - a single consistent technology for all levels of the fieldbus system, combining the worlds of closed-loop control and information-technology on one bus. WorldFIP is accepted technology for international contracts, and is a European Standard (EN50170).

NIST - US National Institute of Standards - The National Institute of Standards and Technology was established by Congress "to assist industry in the development of technology ... needed to improve product quality, to modernize manufacturing processes, to ensure product reliability ... and to facilitate rapid commercialization ... of products based on new scientific discoveries."