The Alaska daily empire., 1923-01-06
PROGRESS IN STANDARDIZATION.

The year 1922 saw greater activity in industrial standardization than any other year in the history o American industry, according to Albert W. Whitney who recently issued review of the 1922 report Of the American Engineering Standards Committee The Committee is federation composed of national technical societies six departments of the Federal government and the principal trade associations in the country. MT Whitney is it's chairman, and it's labors are all in the direction of sandardizat ion Notable progress made during the year in standardization of materials of manufacturing processes and of finished products by individual frms by industrial technical associations and by bodies that are working national and international lines
 One Of the most far-reaehing accomplishments of the year, Mr. Whitney declares, the organization on a working basis, of the Federal Specifications Board which develops and approves the specifications under which all government purchases made, and the development of plan of cooperation between this Board and the American Engineering Standards Committee; the carrying of this plan should go far toward eliminating the difference between spec- fcations government purchases specifications for ordinary commercial supplies and should thereby result in the savings of millions of dollars both for the government and for industry.
 The organization of Secretary Hoovers Division of Simplifed Practice and it's into the in- dustrial field has had highly stimulating effect on the industrial standardization and has helped in particular to press home the business man that standardization is of the main ap- breaches to efficiency and the elimination of waste The Division of Simphfed Practice has already brought about standardization of paving brick, of beds mattresses and springs. and of metal lath It now has under way the standardization of lumber and other products. The distinction between the basis for this work and that of the American En- gneering Standards Committee lies in the fact that the Division of smplifed Practice deyoes itself par ticularly to that part of the field in which decisions must be made a non-teehnieal basis
 Great advances have been made by industry itself on the more technical side More than 12os standard ization undertakings have an official status be- fore the American Engineering Standards Committee 43 CT them having been initiated within the last year; this IS an increase of more than 90 per cent of the 2s Industrial standards developed and approved by the American Engineering Standards Commit ee anee its organization in 191S thirteen were approved within the past year The efforts to develop national safety codes, which have been under way for nnm Der or years began for the first time to bear frut The following six safety codes pointing the way 10 the elimination Of the serious classes of indns trial accidents. were approved during the year.l
 Safety Code for the Use Care and Pro
 lection of Abrasive Wheels;
 Safety Code for the Protection of Indus-
 trial Workers in Foundries;
 Safety Ccde for Power Presses Foot and
 Hand Presses
 National Electrical Safety Codes;
 Safety Code for the Protection of Heads
 and Eyes of Industrial Workers
 Specifications for the Testing and Use of
 Permissible Explosives.
 Another outstanding accomplishment in the indus