Primer on engineering standards
By: Owen R. Greulich, Maan H. Jawad
Contributors: Jawad, Maan H., author
Edition: Expanded textbook edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781119466178
Subjects: Engineering Standards
Description: "Standards supplement the design process by guiding the designer toward consistency, safety, and reliability. As daily life involves increasingly complex and sophisticated instruments, standards become indispensable engineering tools to ensure user safety and product quality. Primer on Engineering Standards: Expanded Textbook Edition delves into standards creation and compliance to provide students and engineers with a comprehensive reference. The different types of standards are dissected and discussed in terms of development, value, impact, interpretation, and compliance, and options are provided for situations where conformance is not possible. The process of standards creation is emphasized in terms of essential characteristics and common pitfalls to avoid, with detailed guidance on how, where, and with whom one may get involved in official development"--
Notes: "This work is a co-publication between ASME Press and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Role of governments in standards; title: Voluntary consensus standards and codes; title: Limited consensus standards; title: Jurisdictional standards; title: Standards development process; title: Types of standards; title: Conformity assessment; title: Standards interpretation and relief; title: Characteristics of a good standard; title: Getting involved in standards development; title: Appendix A. Deciding not to use a standard; title: Appendix B. Some SDOs developing voluntary consensus standards; title: Appendix C. Some industrial organizations that publish limited consensus standards; title: Appendix D. Some US Government jurisdictional agencies.