The National Bureau of Standards Office of Engineering and Information Processing Standards has circulated the draft of a Glossary of Terms for Product Standardization, Product Certification, and Laboratory Accreditation. Issue can be taken with some interpretations in this glossary, but it provides a good foundation on which to build.
A standard is defined as “a prescribed set of conditions and requirements, of general or broad application, established by authority or agreement, to be satisfied by a material, product, process, procedure, convention, test method; and/or the physical, functional, performance, or conformance characteristic thereof. Standards included under this definition are variously called product standards, engineering standards, or a ‘paper’ standard (described in a document). In international discussions the French term norme is equivalent to this definition of standard.
This paper goes on to discuss voluntary and mandatory standards.
Citation: ASHRAE Transactions, Volume 81, Part 1, Atlantic City, NJ
Product Details
- Published:
- 1975
- Number of Pages:
- 5
- File Size:
- 1 file , 400 KB
- Product Code(s):
- D-AC-75-05-3
