ISO 11469:2016 – Marking of Plastics Products
ISO 11469:2016 – Plastics – Generic identification and marking of plastics products is the newest edition of the standard for plastic markings. As stated in […]
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Standard Documents: Changes Through Amendments, Corrigenda, and Errata
To accommodate for any needed revisions, international standard documents are periodically reviewed approximately every five years. The result of this revision process generally leads to […]
AS9100D-2016: Revision of the Aviation, Space, and Defense Quality Management Standard
Quality management systems are designed to be all-encompassing, having viability in a wide range of organizations scattered throughout a variety of industries. However, certain organizations, […]
Requirements for Portable Bathrooms in Construction Sites
Needing to go to the bathroom is one of our most basic urgencies, but it, of course, is easily remedied by the prevalence of available […]
Electronic Exchange of Check and Image Data
First enacted on October 8, 2004, the 21st Century Act (also known as the Check 21 law) allows banks to handle more checks electronically, eliminating […]
The Golden Ratio: A Standard of Art, Nature, and Space-Time
The theme of World Standards Day 2016 (which is to occur on October 14, 2016) is “Standards build trust”. To represent this visually, the poster […]
ANSI/ASSE Z359 – Fall Protection Code Package Version 3.0
***Update: the standards package mentioned in this article is a historical package. In construction and other industries that require work at heights, falls are a […]
Fitness-For-Service: API 579/ASME FFS-1-2016
Standards for pressurized equipment, such as those developed and published by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), detail […]
International Ban on Domestic Ivory Markets to Stop Elephant Poaching
On September 11, 2016, after days of pushback, delegates at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) congress in Hawaii agreed to enact a […]
The Perceived Need for a Standard Language
Language is the strongest form of communication, granting human beings, merely through a series of throat-and-tongue-based utterances, the ability to convey practically anything to other […]