Uniform global testing standards

The European Union (EU) and most other European nations have replaced their national standards with ISO test methods. 

The Japanese Plastics Industry Federation is converting to ISO test methods. 

based multinational companies such as Xerox have instituted worldwide material specifications based on ISO tests. Similar interest has been expressed by other multinational companies in electronics, medical, appliance, and consumer industries. 

government is also moving toward international standards. 

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Uniform Global Testing Standards—A Ttechnical Primer, The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., February 20, 1996. 

UNIFORM GLOBAL TESTING STANDARDS TABLE 20-2. Continued... 

A logical extension of the uniform global testing protocols is a imiform data reporting format. Standardization of the format for reporting data is deemed essential to facilitate the much desired apples-to-apples comparison among thousands of materials available from different suppliers around the world. Part 2 of the ISO material standards for each material attempts to address this issue by employing a uniform data template selected from Table 2 in ISO 10350-1 standard for comparable data. 

Need for uniform global standards in testing plastics... 

Such lack of uniformity in the acquisition and data reporting, added to lot-to-lot variability and interlaboratory variations, contributes to more frustration among the material specifiers and designers. Adoption of uniform test standards on a global basis would alleviate this ordeal and facilitate true comparabiUty, that is, an apples-to-apples comparison. The benefits of adopting one set of test standards worldwide are... 

ISO forms Technical Committee 61 to develop uniform global materials testing standards for plastics. 

SPI publishes the U.S. plastics industry s first white paper on ISO testing methods, calling for uniform global materials test methods based upon ISO/IEC standards. 

The Need for Uniform Global Materials Testing Standards" is subject of industry forum sponsored by SPI at National Plastics Exposition, Chicago. 

Uniform Global Material Testing Standards—Primer for Managers, SPI Polymeric Materials Producers Division, SPI, Washington, D.C., 1996, p. 1. 

The diversity of products, organizations, culture, and social and political frameworks focusing on a product-specific absolute quantity seemed to make it virtually impossible to achieve a uniform and globally accepted definition of Quality. However, in the 1970s, the term Quality was normed for the first time as a term in the concept of quality management (European Organization for Quality Control 1972). In the 80s the ISO 9000-Standard was established and defined quality based on former definitions like the compliance of requirements to test nominal and actual conditions of a product. After revisions the norm ISO 9000 2000 came up with a definition, which was adopted by the CIRP Dictionary of Production Engineering 2004, that defined quality as the totality of properties and characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated and implied needs. The present definition set by the ISO 9000 2005 states that quality represents the level in which a set of inherent product characteristics meets the customers demands. This definition includes, but is not limited to, physical products or immaterial services and addresses processes and systems as well (Eig. 1). 

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