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American National Standards Institute

January 12, 2023

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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI /ˈænsi/ AN-see) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.[3] The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that American products can be used worldwide.

American National Standards Institute
AbbreviationANSI
FormationOctober 19, 1918 (104 years ago) (1918-10-19)[1]
TypeNonprofit organization
Legal status501(c)(3) private
PurposeNational standards
HeadquartersWashington, D.C., U.S.
38°54′14″N 77°02′35″W / 38.90389°N 77.04306°W / 38.90389; -77.04306
Membership
125,000 companies and 3.5 million professionals[2]
Official language
English
President and CEO
Joe Bhatia
Websitewww.ansi.org

ANSI accredits standards that are developed by representatives of other standards organizations, government agencies, consumer groups, companies, and others. These standards ensure that the characteristics and performance of products are consistent, that people use the same definitions and terms, and that products are tested the same way. ANSI also accredits organizations that carry out product or personnel certification in accordance with requirements defined in international standards.[4]

The organization's headquarters are in Washington, D.C. ANSI's operations office is located in New York City. The ANSI annual operating budget is funded by the sale of publications, membership dues and fees, accreditation services, fee-based programs, and international standards programs.

History

ANSI was most likely originally formed in 1918, when five engineering societies and three government agencies founded the American Engineering Standards Committee (AESC).[5] In 1928, the AESC became the American Standards Association (ASA). In 1966, the ASA was reorganized and became United States of America Standards Institute (USASI). The present name was adopted in 1969.

Prior to 1918, these five founding engineering societies:

had been members of the United Engineering Society (UES). At the behest of the AIEE, they invited the U.S. government Departments of War, Navy (combined in 1947 to become the Department of Defense or DOD) and Commerce[6] to join in founding a national standards organization.

According to Adam Stanton, the first permanent secretary and head of staff in 1919, AESC started as an ambitious program and little else. Staff for the first year consisted of one executive, Clifford B. LePage, who was on loan from a founding member, ASME. An annual budget of $7,500 was provided by the founding bodies.

In 1931, the organization (renamed ASA in 1928) became affiliated with the U.S. National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), which had been formed in 1904 to develop electrical and electronics standards.[7]

Members

ANSI's members are government agencies, organizations, academic and international bodies, and individuals. In total, the Institute represents the interests of more than 270,000 companies and organizations and 30 million professionals worldwide.[2]

Process

Although ANSI itself does not develop standards, the Institute oversees the development and use of standards by accrediting the procedures of standards developing organizations. ANSI accreditation signifies that the procedures used by standards developing organizations meet the institute's requirements for openness, balance, consensus, and due process.

ANSI also designates specific standards as American National Standards, or ANS, when the Institute determines that the standards were developed in an environment that is equitable, accessible and responsive to the requirements of various stakeholders.[8]

Voluntary consensus standards quicken the market acceptance of products while making clear how to improve the safety of those products for the protection of consumers. There are approximately 9,500 American National Standards that carry the ANSI designation.

The American National Standards process involves:

  • consensus by a group that is open to representatives from all interested parties
  • broad-based public review and comment on draft standards
  • consideration of and response to comments
  • incorporation of submitted changes that meet the same consensus requirements into a draft standard
  • availability of an appeal by any participant alleging that these principles were not respected during the standards-development process.

International activities

In addition to facilitating the formation of standards in the United States, ANSI promotes the use of U.S. standards internationally, advocates U.S. policy and technical positions in international and regional standards organizations, and encourages the adoption of international standards as national standards where appropriate.

The institute is the official U.S. representative to the two major international standards organizations, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), as a founding member,[9] and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), via the U.S. National Committee (USNC). ANSI participates in almost the entire technical program of both the ISO and the IEC, and administers many key committees and subgroups. In many instances, U.S. standards are taken forward to ISO and IEC, through ANSI or the USNC, where they are adopted in whole or in part as international standards.

Adoption of ISO and IEC standards as American standards increased from 0.2% in 1986 to 15.5% in May 2012.[10]

Standards panels

The Institute administers nine standards panels:[11]

  • ANSI Homeland Defense and Security Standardization Collaborative (HDSSC)
  • ANSI Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP)
  • ID Theft Prevention and ID Management Standards Panel (IDSP)
  • ANSI Energy Efficiency Standardization Coordination Collaborative (EESCC)
  • Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative (NESCC)
  • Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP)
  • ANSI-NAM Network on Chemical Regulation
  • ANSI Biofuels Standards Coordination Panel
  • Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)

Each of the panels works to identify, coordinate, and harmonize voluntary standards relevant to these areas.

In 2009, ANSI and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) formed the Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative (NESCC). NESCC is a joint initiative to identify and respond to the current need for standards in the nuclear industry.

American national standards

  • The ASA (as for American Standards Association) photographic exposure system, originally defined in ASA Z38.2.1 (since 1943) and ASA PH2.5 (since 1954), together with the DIN system (DIN 4512 since 1934), became the basis for the ISO system (since 1974), currently used worldwide (ISO 6, ISO 2240, ISO 5800, ISO 12232).
  • A standard for the set of values used to represent characters in digital computers. The ANSI code standard extended the previously created ASCII seven bit code standard (ASA X3.4-1963), with additional codes for European alphabets (see also Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code or EBCDIC). In Microsoft Windows, the phrase "ANSI" refers to the Windows ANSI code pages (even though they are not ANSI standards).[12] Most of these are fixed width, though some characters for ideographic languages are variable width. Since these characters are based on a draft of the ISO-8859 series, some of Microsoft's symbols are visually very similar to the ISO symbols, leading many to falsely assume that they are identical.
  • The first computer programming language standard was "American Standard Fortran" (informally known as "FORTRAN 66"), approved in March 1966 and published as ASA X3.9-1966.
  • The programming language COBOL had ANSI standards in 1968, 1974, and 1985. The COBOL 2002 standard was issued by ISO.
  • The original standard implementation of the C programming language was standardized as ANSI X3.159-1989, becoming the well-known ANSI C.
  • The X3J13 committee was created in 1986 to formalize the ongoing consolidation of Common Lisp,[13] culminating in 1994 with the publication of ANSI's first object-oriented programming standard.[14]
  • A popular Unified Thread Standard for nuts and bolts is ANSI/ASME B1.1 which was defined in 1935, 1949, 1989, and 2003.
  • The ANSI-NSF International standards used for commercial kitchens, such as restaurants, cafeterias, delis, etc.
  • The ANSI/APSP (Association of Pool & Spa Professionals) standards used for pools, spas, hot tubs, barriers, and suction entrapment avoidance.
  • The ANSI/HI (Hydraulic Institute) standards used for pumps.
  • The ANSI for eye protection is Z87.1, which gives a specific impact resistance rating to the eyewear. This standard is commonly used for shop glasses, shooting glasses, and many other examples of protective eyewear.
  • The ANSI paper sizes (ANSI/ASME Y14.1).

Other initiatives

  • In 2008, ANSI, in partnership with Citation Technologies,[15] created the first dynamic, online web library for ISO 14000 standards.[16]
  • On June 23, 2009, ANSI announced a product and services agreement with Citation Technologies to deliver all ISO Standards on a web-based platform. Through the ANSI-Citation partnership, 17,765 International Standards developed by more than 3,000 ISO technical bodies will be made available on the citation platform, arming subscribers with powerful search tools and collaboration, notification, and change-management functionality.[17]
  • ANSI, in partnership with Citation Technologies, AAMI, ASTM, and DIN, created a single, centralized database for medical device standards on September 9, 2009.[18]
  • In early 2009, ANSI launched a new Certificate Accreditation Program (ANSI-CAP) to provide neutral, third-party attestation that a given certificate program meets the American National Standard ASTM E2659-09.
  • In 2009, ANSI began accepting applications for certification bodies seeking accreditation according to requirements defined under the Toy Safety Certification Program (TSCP) as the official third-party accreditor of TSCP's product certification bodies.
  • In 2006, ANSI launched www.StandardsPortal.org, an online resource for facilitating more open and efficient trade between international markets in the areas of standards, conformity assessment, and technical regulations. The site currently features content for the United States, China, India, Korea, and Brazil, with additional countries and regions planned for future content.
  • ANSI design standards have also been incorporated into building codes encompassing several specific building sub-sets, such as the ANSI/SPRI ES-1, which pertains to "Wind Design Standard for Edge Systems Used With Low Slope Roofing Systems", for example.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Minutes". American Engineering Standards Committee (AESC): 1. October 19, 1918.
  2. ^ a b "ANSI Membership – A Value Proposition". ANSI. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  3. ^ RFC 4949
  4. ^ ANSI 2009 Annual Report
  5. ^ "ANSI: Historical Overview". ansi.org. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  6. ^ ANSI history- Retrieved 2011-09-27
  7. ^ "Welcome to the IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission". www.iec.ch.
  8. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
  9. ^ ISO founding member- Retrieved 2011-09-27
  10. ^ Choi, Dong Geun; Puskar, Erik (2014). "A Review of U.S.A. Participation in ISO and IEC". National Institute of Standards and Technology: 29. doi:10.6028/NIST.IR.8007. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ Overview. Ansi.org. Retrieved on 2013-08-12.
  12. ^ . Microsoft. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved September 15, 2006.
  13. ^ "X3J13 Charter". www.nhplace.com.
  14. ^ . dmoztools.net. Archived from the original on June 1, 2020. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
  15. ^ . Archived from the original on December 2, 2008.
  16. ^ "ANSI iPackages: New Website Helps Organizations to Share, Annotate, and Personalize ISO 14000 Environmental Standards". www.ansi.org.
  17. ^ "Citation Technologies and ANSI Partner to Bring Full Collection of ISO Standards to Market on Robust citation® Web-based Platform". www.ansi.org.
  18. ^ . Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2009.
  19. ^ . Archived from the original on May 12, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2012.

External links

  • Official website

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Official languageEnglishPresident and CEOJoe BhatiaWebsitewww wbr ansi wbr orgANSI accredits standards that are developed by representatives of other standards organizations government agencies consumer groups companies and others These standards ensure that the characteristics and performance of products are consistent that people use the same definitions and terms and that products are tested the same way ANSI also accredits organizations that carry out product or personnel certification in accordance with requirements defined in international standards 4 The organization s headquarters are in Washington D C ANSI s operations office is located in New York City The ANSI annual operating budget is funded by the sale of publications membership dues and fees accreditation services fee based programs and international standards programs Contents 1 History 2 Members 3 Process 4 International activities 4 1 Standards panels 4 2 American national standards 4 3 Other initiatives 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksHistory EditANSI was most likely originally formed in 1918 when five engineering societies and three government agencies founded the American Engineering Standards Committee AESC 5 In 1928 the AESC became the American Standards Association ASA In 1966 the ASA was reorganized and became United States of America Standards Institute USASI The present name was adopted in 1969 Prior to 1918 these five founding engineering societies American Institute of Electrical Engineers AIEE now IEEE American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE American Institute of Mining Engineers AIME now American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers American Society for Testing and Materials now ASTM International had been members of the United Engineering Society UES At the behest of the AIEE they invited the U S government Departments of War Navy combined in 1947 to become the Department of Defense or DOD and Commerce 6 to join in founding a national standards organization According to Adam Stanton the first permanent secretary and head of staff in 1919 AESC started as an ambitious program and little else Staff for the first year consisted of one executive Clifford B LePage who was on loan from a founding member ASME An annual budget of 7 500 was provided by the founding bodies In 1931 the organization renamed ASA in 1928 became affiliated with the U S National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission IEC which had been formed in 1904 to develop electrical and electronics standards 7 Members EditANSI s members are government agencies organizations academic and international bodies and individuals In total the Institute represents the interests of more than 270 000 companies and organizations and 30 million professionals worldwide 2 Process EditAlthough ANSI itself does not develop standards the Institute oversees the development and use of standards by accrediting the procedures of standards developing organizations ANSI accreditation signifies that the procedures used by standards developing organizations meet the institute s requirements for openness balance consensus and due process ANSI also designates specific standards as American National Standards or ANS when the Institute determines that the standards were developed in an environment that is equitable accessible and responsive to the requirements of various stakeholders 8 Voluntary consensus standards quicken the market acceptance of products while making clear how to improve the safety of those products for the protection of consumers There are approximately 9 500 American National Standards that carry the ANSI designation The American National Standards process involves consensus by a group that is open to representatives from all interested parties broad based public review and comment on draft standards consideration of and response to comments incorporation of submitted changes that meet the same consensus requirements into a draft standard availability of an appeal by any participant alleging that these principles were not respected during the standards development process International activities EditIn addition to facilitating the formation of standards in the United States ANSI promotes the use of U S standards internationally advocates U S policy and technical positions in international and regional standards organizations and encourages the adoption of international standards as national standards where appropriate The institute is the official U S representative to the two major international standards organizations the International Organization for Standardization ISO as a founding member 9 and the International Electrotechnical Commission IEC via the U S National Committee USNC ANSI participates in almost the entire technical program of both the ISO and the IEC and administers many key committees and subgroups In many instances U S standards are taken forward to ISO and IEC through ANSI or the USNC where they are adopted in whole or in part as international standards Adoption of ISO and IEC standards as American standards increased from 0 2 in 1986 to 15 5 in May 2012 10 Standards panels Edit The Institute administers nine standards panels 11 ANSI Homeland Defense and Security Standardization Collaborative HDSSC ANSI Nanotechnology Standards Panel ANSI NSP ID Theft Prevention and ID Management Standards Panel IDSP ANSI Energy Efficiency Standardization Coordination Collaborative EESCC Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative NESCC Electric Vehicles Standards Panel EVSP ANSI NAM Network on Chemical Regulation ANSI Biofuels Standards Coordination Panel Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel HITSP Each of the panels works to identify coordinate and harmonize voluntary standards relevant to these areas In 2009 ANSI and the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST formed the Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative NESCC NESCC is a joint initiative to identify and respond to the current need for standards in the nuclear industry American national standards Edit The ASA as for American Standards Association photographic exposure system originally defined in ASA Z38 2 1 since 1943 and ASA PH2 5 since 1954 together with the DIN system DIN 4512 since 1934 became the basis for the ISO system since 1974 currently used worldwide ISO 6 ISO 2240 ISO 5800 ISO 12232 A standard for the set of values used to represent characters in digital computers The ANSI code standard extended the previously created ASCII seven bit code standard ASA X3 4 1963 with additional codes for European alphabets see also Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code or EBCDIC In Microsoft Windows the phrase ANSI refers to the Windows ANSI code pages even though they are not ANSI standards 12 Most of these are fixed width though some characters for ideographic languages are variable width Since these characters are based on a draft of the ISO 8859 series some of Microsoft s symbols are visually very similar to the ISO symbols leading many to falsely assume that they are identical The first computer programming language standard was American Standard Fortran informally known as FORTRAN 66 approved in March 1966 and published as ASA X3 9 1966 The programming language COBOL had ANSI standards in 1968 1974 and 1985 The COBOL 2002 standard was issued by ISO The original standard implementation of the C programming language was standardized as ANSI X3 159 1989 becoming the well known ANSI C The X3J13 committee was created in 1986 to formalize the ongoing consolidation of Common Lisp 13 culminating in 1994 with the publication of ANSI s first object oriented programming standard 14 A popular Unified Thread Standard for nuts and bolts is ANSI ASME B1 1 which was defined in 1935 1949 1989 and 2003 The ANSI NSF International standards used for commercial kitchens such as restaurants cafeterias delis etc The ANSI APSP Association of Pool amp Spa Professionals standards used for pools spas hot tubs barriers and suction entrapment avoidance The ANSI HI Hydraulic Institute standards used for pumps The ANSI for eye protection is Z87 1 which gives a specific impact resistance rating to the eyewear This standard is commonly used for shop glasses shooting glasses and many other examples of protective eyewear The ANSI paper sizes ANSI ASME Y14 1 Other initiatives Edit In 2008 ANSI in partnership with Citation Technologies 15 created the first dynamic online web library for ISO 14000 standards 16 On June 23 2009 ANSI announced a product and services agreement with Citation Technologies to deliver all ISO Standards on a web based platform Through the ANSI Citation partnership 17 765 International Standards developed by more than 3 000 ISO technical bodies will be made available on the citation platform arming subscribers with powerful search tools and collaboration notification and change management functionality 17 ANSI in partnership with Citation Technologies AAMI ASTM and DIN created a single centralized database for medical device standards on September 9 2009 18 In early 2009 ANSI launched a new Certificate Accreditation Program ANSI CAP to provide neutral third party attestation that a given certificate program meets the American National Standard ASTM E2659 09 In 2009 ANSI began accepting applications for certification bodies seeking accreditation according to requirements defined under the Toy Safety Certification Program TSCP as the official third party accreditor of TSCP s product certification bodies In 2006 ANSI launched www StandardsPortal org an online resource for facilitating more open and efficient trade between international markets in the areas of standards conformity assessment and technical regulations The site currently features content for the United States China India Korea and Brazil with additional countries and regions planned for future content ANSI design standards have also been incorporated into building codes encompassing several specific building sub sets such as the ANSI SPRI ES 1 which pertains to Wind Design Standard for Edge Systems Used With Low Slope Roofing Systems for example 19 See also EditAccredited Crane Operator Certification ANSI ASC X9 ANSI ASC X12 ANSI C Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology IEST Institute of Nuclear Materials Management INMM ISO to which ANSI is the official US representative National Information Standards Organization NISO National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST Open standardsReferences Edit Minutes American Engineering Standards Committee AESC 1 October 19 1918 a b ANSI Membership A Value Proposition ANSI Retrieved March 22 2018 RFC 4949 ANSI 2009 Annual Report ANSI Historical Overview ansi org Retrieved October 31 2016 ANSI history Retrieved 2011 09 27 Welcome to the IEC International Electrotechnical Commission www iec ch Value of the ANS Designation brochure PDF Archived from the original PDF on December 22 2009 Retrieved September 23 2009 ISO founding member Retrieved 2011 09 27 Choi Dong Geun Puskar Erik 2014 A Review of U S A Participation in ISO and IEC National Institute of Standards and Technology 29 doi 10 6028 NIST IR 8007 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Overview Ansi org Retrieved on 2013 08 12 Microsoft Glossary Microsoft Archived from the original on January 18 2009 Retrieved September 15 2006 X3J13 Charter www nhplace com DMOZ Computers Programming Languages Lisp dmoztools net Archived from the original on June 1 2020 Retrieved August 15 2018 Citation Technologies and ANSI Archived from the original on December 2 2008 ANSI iPackages New Website Helps Organizations to Share Annotate and Personalize ISO 14000 Environmental Standards www ansi org Citation Technologies and ANSI Partner to Bring Full Collection of ISO Standards to Market on Robust citation Web based Platform www ansi org Medical Device Standards Database Press Release 09 09 09 Archived from the original on July 25 2011 Retrieved September 9 2009 The ANSI SPRI ES 1 Standard Explained Archived from the original on May 12 2013 Retrieved December 17 2012 External links EditOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title American National Standards Institute amp oldid 1126962249, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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