Standards?

[juergenwt]

Something looks to be wrong here. Is this why we seem to have a problem competing?
Standards US:
ANSI, ASME, ASTM, AWS, NEMA, NIST, SAE, MIL. Could be more.

Standards France: AFNOR
Standards Germany: DIN
Standards Japan: JST
Standards Sweden: SIS
Standards UK: BSI
Standards Internationa: ISO

Could the large number of US Standards be a handicap for our Industry? Could this be beneficial to our industry? Are we just hanging on to some old and outdated systems? Should we abandon all these standards and take in ISO as it becomes available? Opinions please.

 

[mcgyvr]

The problem is everyone is trying to make a buck (including standards agencies) and no one wants/or can work for dirt cheap. That's why we can't compete. Just wait...it will equalize once workers in "low pay" countries start to want flat screen TV's in each bedroom and 3 cars in their garages.

 

[looslib]

The US has never been a country to do things as a country. Our olympic teams are not funded by the country. The standards are not defined by the country standard orgranization, because we don't have one. That leaves standards to be developed by a group of people who see a need.
AWS for welding. SAE for automotive. NEMA for electrical enclosures.
ANSI is the closest we have to a national standards group. Yet, they are even stepping back. Look at Y14.5, the 1978 and 1983(?) versions were published by ANSI. The 1994 and 2009 editions are published by ASME.


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[KENAT]

Most US standards weem to be 'Industry Standards' and are maintained by an Industry Body.

In many of the other countries listed they are 'national standards' prepared and maintained by govt agency - though for most of them based on ISO these days. For example, few of the newer British Standards are actually 'BS' standards. They are usually BS-EN, BS-EN-ISO or maybe BS-ISO (not so sure).

Some of the ISO standards for drawing conventions etc. suck, and there are a lot of them, many that say little. I'm inclined to say ASME stds may be better in this particular niche.

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[minder]

Years ago I attempted to search for standards for Electrical Control for Machinery, in both Canadian and US.
The only thing I could find apart from the E.Code was the NFPA79, which most MTB's seem to abide by in N.A.
As far as component standards, the DIN standard appears to have become the standard by practice in N.A.
Probably due to most of the companies now suppling these components are or European origin or have resulted from merging and takeovers of traditional US companies.
The only thing that has not seemed to have been adopted is the top-down schematic convention for machine control or ladder and the IEC symbolism for logic.
M.