In this issue, we examine:

• Creating "Good" Worldwide Standards
• Outdated Parts Info? No Problem!
• Market Driven Standardization: Everyone Can Win!
• Clarion Receives ISO/TS 16949 Certification

Creating "Good" Worldwide Standards

"The United States needs an effective national standards strategy if we are to compete effectively in the global market." --Ray Kammer, director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Mr. Kammer made this observation when he addressed an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Board of Directors meeting in 1998. He was quoted earlier this year, in Dr. Mark Hurwitz's keynote address to the Standards Engineering Society's (SES) annual conference. Dr. Hurwitz, CAE, is ANSI's President and CEO.

In our last issue, we explored the need for timely, relevant, and readily accessible standards. In this issue, we look at the need for "good" worldwide standards in Dr. Hurwitz's speech to the SES. more

Outdated Parts Info? No Problem!

Purchasing Manager Kathy Iannacone says the IHS Parts Center (formerly TechSavvy) enables her to solve sourcing problems when her initial information is obsolete. By using TechSavvy she was able to locate a print dating back to 1983! Congratulations, Kathy, you're this month's SEARCH MEISTER! more

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Market Driven Standardization: Everyone Can Win!

Ken Krechmer, Technical Editor for the Communications Standards Review, has teamed up with Global Engineering Journal to share his extensive body of work with our subscribers. Here is an excerpt from "Market Driven Standardization: Everyone Can Win":

"Technical standards are basic to the exploitation of all technology. For almost 100 years, national and international standards development organizations (SDOs) have developed voluntary, consensus-based standards and reduced the need for government-dominated standardization and state regulation. Voluntary, consensus technical standardization has provided flexible economical standardization at less cost and with greater flexibility than government control throughout the 20th century. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, a new standardization trend has emerged: market-driven standardization." more

Clarion Receives ISO/TS 16949 Certification

Automotive supplier Clarion Technology Inc. has received certification for compliance with ISO/TS 16949, a quality standard that addresses the requirements of the automotive industries in the United States and Europe. Developed by the International Automotive Task Force, the standard is based on ISO 9001:1994, AVSQ (Italy), EAQF (France), QS-9000 (United States) and VDA 6.1 Germany. The new standard does not replace previous standards, but acts as an international equivalent to country-specific standards, allowing suppliers to avoid multiple registrations. The new standard also contains provisions for reassignment of supplier resources to quality improvement, including the introduction of the term "Product Realization" to address the designing, planning, and delivering of products that meet customer requirements.

Certification of Clarion's plant in Greenville, MI, was awarded by Entela Inc., QSRD, the first of an anticipated 31 firms to be approved as ISO/TS 16949 registrars.

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