ASTM F404-21: Consumer Safety For High Chairs
High chairs were seen as early as the 1600s in homes with children. Between the 1600s to the early 1800s, high chairs were custom made […]
NELAC and NELAP – What Do These Acronyms Mean for the Environmental Laboratory?
What Is NELAC? NELAC stands for the National Environmental Laboratories Accreditation Conference. Established by the EPA in 1995 as a means to bring consistency in […]
ANSI/ANS-8.3-2022: Criticality Accident Alarm System
A Criticality Accident Alarm System (CAAS) is installed as part of criticality safety management for use in reducing the radiation workers could be exposed to […]
ASTM D1238-23: Melt Flow Rates Of Thermoplastics
We use products made from thermoplastics every day. Drinking bottles, food storage containers, sports equipment, toys, plastic grocery bags, and shampoo bottles are all made […]
ANSI/OPEI B71.9-2022: Multipurpose Off-Highway Utility Vehicles
ANSI/OPEI B71.9-2022: Multipurpose Off-Highway Utility Vehicles is an American National Standard that establishes the equipment, configuration, and performance of multipurpose off-highway utility vehicles (MOHUVs). What […]
ASME HST-3-2022: Performance Standard for Lever Hoists
Lever hoists are designed so that an operator can exert a force, via a lever pull, to lift or pull a rated load and apply […]
Conformity Assessment – If Only…
You can understand conformity assessment—in any situation and from any point of view regardless of the situational minutia. In other words, at a basic principles […]
ANSI/PLASTICS B151.31-2014 (R2020): Blow Molding Machines
Do you know how plastic water bottles are created? Well, since the 1970s, stretch blow molding has been used for creating preforms of plastic bottles […]
ASTM D3359-23: Tape Test Methods for Measuring Adhesion
Measuring Adhesion and ASTM D3359-23 Adhesion is a strongly desired quality between a coating and a substrate, as it allows the coating to fulfill its […]
ISO 12233:2023—Photography Resolution & Spatial Frequency
With consumer digital cameras, the term resolution of is often incorrectly interpreted as the number of addressable photoelements. Quantitatively, resolution refers to the ability of […]