2016 World Standards Day

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Oct 112016
 

Each year on 14 October, the members of the IEC, ISO and ITU celebrate World Standards Day, which is a means of paying tribute to the collaborative efforts of the thousands of experts worldwide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as international standards.

This year have chosen the motto:

“Standards build trust”

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Standards connect us with reliable modes of communication, codes of practice and trusted frameworks for cooperation. Introducing common interpretations on reciprocal sides of a communication or transaction, standards are essential to mutually beneficial trade and resource efficient international commerce.

A product or service conforming to an international standard is imbued with a trusted symbol of quality, safety or compatibility. Standards speak to the diversity of our interconnected world, introducing uniformity at the interfaces where we need to be certain that we are speaking on the same terms.

From AFTA we want to support this kind of initiatives, which represent the consensus view of the world’s leading experts in industry sectors, who puts their knowledge voluntarily on the public interest.

2015 World Standards Day

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Oct 142015
 
Today, 14 October 2015, World Standards Day is celebrated; IEC, ISO and ITU this year have chosen the motto “standards: the world’s common language” and the essential role that standards play in transactions, providing a common language through the world.
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From AFTA we want to support this kind of initiatives, which represent the consensus view of the world’s leading experts in industry sectors, who puts their knowledge voluntarily on the public interest.

World Standards Day 2013

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Oct 142013
 

The World Standards Day takes place every 14th October. The date was selected because on 14th October 1946 took place a meeting in London where delegates from 25 States decided to create an international organization focused on facilitating standardization.

Frederica Scott Vollrath won the poster competition for this year

Although International Standardization Organization, ISO, was founded on 1947 the first World Standards Day was held in 1970. Therefore, this year the 43rd edition is celebrated.

 El mensaje lanzado este año se centra en potenciar las normas como una potente herramienta para liderar cambios positivos detallando especificaciones que consigan abrir mercados globales, permitiendo ambientes aptos para los negocios, estimulando el crecimiento económico y ayudando a mitigar el cambio climático.

Desde AFTA queremos apoyar este tipo de iniciativas, que representan el punto de vista consensuado de los expertos mundiales en los diferentes sectores industriales, que ponen su conocimiento de un modo voluntario al interés público.

We would like to leave a link to the reviews that have been published by other organizations, like ISO or AENOR, as well as to the twitter hashtag #worldstandardsday.

Annual Reports 2012

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May 302013
 

From AFTA, we link hereby the 2012 annual reports of the main Standard and Steel Associations, which are normally published these days.

Standardization

– AENOR Report 2012: Annual report of the Spanish Standardization Association.

– DIN Report: the most relevant standardization works carried out in Germany during 2012.

– ISO Report

Steel Associations

– Eurofer shows its analyse from the last year.

– Worldsteel Association: offers its point of view.

New interesting publications

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Oct 312012
 

The World Steel Association has just published its Statistical Yearbook, which presents a description of the world steel production, comparing as well the last decade data (2002-2011)

You can download the report through the following link.

Moreover, ISO has published its second volume about real case studies concerning to economic benefits of standards. This publication focuses on the methodology and the assesment, by offering cases of different sized companies throughout the world.

You can follow this link to order it.

Annual Report 2011: CEN-CENELEC and ISO

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Jun 112012
 

The Eurpean Committee for Stanrdarization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standarization (CENELEC) have published their Annual Activities Report, for the year 2011

This report provides an overview of the developed items of both organizations during the last year.

You can download the report through the following link.

By the same time, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has also published its Annual Report, for the year 2011.

You can downlaod it by clicking here.

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