The standards are used to provide uniformity in design, construction, theories, and implmentations. However there are many standards for different applications and there are standards that are predominately exclusive to one field.
United States has adopted many of the home grown standards that deal exactly as stated, and manufactured products Near twenty years ago United States manufacturing realized that in order to compete in the global economy and to provide uniformity of their products adopted two components. First the British units was accompanied by metric units on all products, hence the two liter bottles of drinks were produced and second, adopting an international standard for product lines to have reciprocity with other world manufacturers. Hence the ISO 2000 and later ISO 9000. Many manufacturers did not follow this guideline, since the ISO standards was only considered as product management standard as oppose to standard of manufacturing and safety. In fact the emphasis of ISO was primarily for interaction among world manufacturer’s.
Th intent of this brief is not to belittle the ISO 9000, yet to address that there are many equivalent stadards that meet same standard and are unique to each products. is standard is generic and equivalent standards that were tailored to unique products for up to near 75 years are valid
The OSHPD based on the AC156 is considering the repeatability in manufacturing process. Nearly most standards in United States address this issue. The underwriters of insurance companies use this standards as basis, foundation, and guidelines to their insurers. The ICC standards are used in the construction industry, and the electronics are primarily governed by the Underwriters Laboratory.
Majority of construction industry are not ISO 9000, and California Building Code, and OSHPD agrees with their use and people and properties live and work in the buildings built by the non-ISO 9000 standards.
In addition as shown in the attached article, the ISO 9000 is extremely general and ranges from foods in grocery store to heavy industrial machinery. The need for specific manufacturing standard increases as the products become extremely specific and each component within the product is subject to further standards. As stated, ISO 9000 is predominately generic for quality control and to respond to global sales and interaction of multinational sales and marketing.
AC156 standard is concerned with mass and geometric distribution of the products being tested. ISO 9000 does not guarantee that the components within the products made a year from now meets exactly the same sub-product. This is true as long as they meet the ISO 9000 guidelines. It is only concerned with the quality control of the manufacturing. This includes from accounting to sales and marketing to production.
UL508C as is used by RSD is extremely specific and concentrates on electronic motor controls. In addition, every component used within this standard must adhere to additional standards. The distances, between wires, elements, heat transfer, and all pertinent sciences within the product must meet all guidelines and safety and must be made exactly as stated based on heat transfer of the subcomponents. The product drawings for the UL listed products must match the exact specification in the factory and besides the regular inspection, the impromptu and unannounced inspection keeps the entire manufacturing in line with the standards.
UL as an organization has been one of the largest provider of the ISO 9000 certification. This certification is primarily known as quality management ….
There are other nationally recognized standards in the country. National Fire Protection Association has standards that are very unique to products. In addition, International Standard Organization has other standards that are specific and unique to the product. These standards are unique to very specific products are
Repeatability and consistency: All standards are based on repeatability, consistent, and uniformity. ICC ESR reports provide standards that the particular screw will beave the sameway regardless which store it was purchased. National Fire Protection standards and guidelines have been maintaining the life safety equipments across all hospitals. All have been uniform and consistent. The location of components and any minor variations are not permitted. The UL, NFPA, as well as ISO standards maintain the consistency in production.
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