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What ever happened to MIL-STD-2154, Inspection, Ultrasonic, Wrought Metals, Process for? Actually, the standard was picked up by SAE International. It was renumbered AMS-STD-2154 and has been an active standard ever since. Since the AMS-STD-2154 …
Register for Free Webinar–Chinese EHS Trends What is Three Simultaneities Three Simultaneities–part of the Environmental Protection Law–requires all enterprises and institutions to design, construct and put to use the pollution prevention and control installations simultaneously …
The replacement of the ANSI Z540.1 with the ANSI Z540.3 and the ISO/IEC 17025 back in 2007 has led to a number of questions from Document Center Inc. customers. To help you understand the situation, here’s …
Left to right, Top Row: David Fu, Benjamin Chen, Jamin Jia, Dean Cheng, Lane Huang, Magnus Svernlov. Bottom row: Anni Jia, Daisy Hu, Cherry Tao, Yusi Wang, Jonathan Brun, Luciano Ciccone MONTRÉAL, Canada — April …
Nimonik works with a number of automotive companies and their suppliers. One of the recurring challenges we hear about is ensuring quality control across operations and across OEMs who are clients of the parts companies. …
What does ASTM reapproved mean? This is one of those questions that many folks who are new to standards have. The answer is simple, but it is an opportunity to discuss the administrative side of …
ASTM F1980, “Standard Guide for Accelerated Aging of Sterile Barrier Systems for Medical Devices,” has been updated. The new 2016 Edition is available now from Document Center Inc. You can purchase it online in paper …
You know it had to happen! Cloud computing is the “hot” technology area and here come the standards! However, if you’re responsible for developing contracts or fulfilling them, you’re glad of it. And the new …
What Does a Great ISO 14001 Compliance Obligations Register Look Like? Nimonik has seen hundreds of ISO 14001 Compliance Obligations Registers and they seem to come in all shapes and sizes. Whether your organization is ISO 14001:2015, …
ISO 16016, “Technical product documentation – Protection notices for restricting the use of documents and products,” has just been updated. The 2nd Edition released this month is now available from Document Center Inc. in a number …
Conformance check Inc., a Etobicoke-based software company specialized in legal compliance regulatory analysis, is now part of Nimonik, a standards and regulatory compliance software solutions company. Jonathan Brun, founder and CEO of Nimonik stated on …
FED-STD-595, “Colors Used in Government Procurement,” has just been replaced by AMS-STD-595 of the same title. It is important to note that the new publication does not contain any color chips yet. It is just …
UL 50 and UL 50E, the two essential UL standards on Enclosures for Electrical Equipment, have just been updated. Here’s a quick review of each of these two important publications and their changes: UL 50, …
Document Center Inc. is pleased to announce that the following New Standards on Shipbuilding and Marine Structures are now available: ASTM F2001, 2015 Edition, Standard Guide for Vessel-Related Technical Information for Use in Developing an Electronic Database and Ship …
DEF STAN standards are released by the U.K. Defence Standardization Program, part of the U.K. Department of Defence. The DEF STAN 03 series has been an important documentation series for military/defense manufacturing companies. However, like …
Recently a series of Aerospace Material Specs have been revised. These updated AMS Titanium Specifications all reflect a major review of these documents by the SAE AMS G Committee on Titanium and Refractory Metals. We’ll …
Document Center Inc. is pleased to announce that the following New Standards on Cement, Gypsum, Lime and Mortar are now available: ASTM C10, 2014 Edition, Standard Specification for Natural Cement ASTM C186, 2013 Edition, Standard Test Method …
There’s a few standards that are essential to the plating industry, and AMS 2404 is one of those standards. It is the preferred replacement for the AMS-C-26074 (formerly MIL-C-26074) and is one of Document Center’s …
Document Center Inc. is pleased to announce that the following New Standards on EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) and Emissions are now available: BS EN 55016-1-4, 2010 Edition with Amendment A1, Specification for radio disturbance and immunity measuring …
AMS QQ-S-763, “Steel, Corrosion Resistant, Bars, Wire, Shapes, and Forgings,” has just been revised. The new Revision C can be purchased from Document Center Inc. in either paper or pdf download format. The new AMS …
ASME has recently announced that 9 ASME standards have been reaffirmed. This is a normal result of a 5-year review cycle that is the norm in the U.S. standards developing community. However, each organization manages …
The MIL-HDBK-17 series has been a mainstay of the plastics industry, but with the release of three new Handbooks, the first three volumes of the Military series have been cancelled and replaced. The new SAE …
There’s a new AMS DTL 22499A, “Shim Stock, Laminated,” and it’s available now from Document Center Inc. in either paper or pdf format. This specification covers the requirements for surface bonded laminated shim stock. Revision …
“Metals and Alloys in the Unified Numbering System (UNS),” co-numbered SAE HS 1086 and ASTM DS56, has been revised and the new 12th Edition is available from Document Center Inc. The volume provides a cross-index for nationally used metals …
IEEE C37.90.1 2012 , “IEEE Standard for Surge Withstand Capability (SWC) Tests for Relays and Relay Systems Associated with Electric Power Apparatus,” is here and available from Document Center Inc. in both paper and pdf …
BS EN ISO 14971:2012, “Medical devices. Application of risk management to medical devices,” has been released and is now available from Document Center Inc. It is the UK implementation of EN ISO 14971:2012. It is …
Here’s another example of a new ISO release being adopted as an EN standard, replacing a European document in the process. EN 473 (sold in the official English language edition as BS EN 473), “Non-destructive …
For all of you in the medical device field, the BS EN 980 (Official English language edition of EN-980) “Symbols for use in the labelling of medical devices” has been a must-have in your conformance …
MIL-STD-882 Revision E, “System Safety,” has just been released and is now available from Document Center Inc. This system safety standard practice is a key element of Systems Engineering (SE) that provides a standard, generic …
Based in Silicon Valley, Document Center Inc. has been selling standards and services to the Semiconductor Industry since our founding in 1982. One of our top-selling standards to this niche is the JESD 46, “Customer …
AMS 2700 Revision E, “Passivation of Corrosion Resistant Steels,” has just been released. The new edition replaces AMS 2700 Revision D which was released back in July of this year. The specification covers the requirements for …
QQ-P-35, “Passivation Treatments for Corrosion Resistant Steel,” is another government document that was cancelled due to the implementation of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act in the mid-1990’s. The public law, known as NTTAA, …
ASTM E230/E230M, “Standard Specification and Temperature-Electromotive Force (emf) Tables for Standardized Thermocouples,” was released as the 2011(e1) Edition in October. This is an editorial correction of ASTM E230/E230M-11 from August of this year. Table 46 …
We often get asked this simple question: “What is the difference between an ISO, EN-ISO and BS-EN-ISO Standard?” The simple answer is “Not much.” But there’s more to it than that. I’ve talked about this …
IEC 60812 Edition 2.0, BS EN 60812:2006, AIAG’s FMEA Standard, and SAE-J-1739 all provide standards users with information on how to identify the potential for system elements to fail. Failure is the loss of the …
MIL-STD-105, “Sampling Procedures and Tables for Inspection by Attributes,” is another of those popular military standards that got cancelled during Mil Spec reform in the mid-1990’s. The documents referenced in the cancellation notice can cause …
TAPPI Standard Practice T 564 sp-11, “Transparent chart for the estimation of defect size,” is now available. This new 2011 Edition for the paper and pulp industry provides users with an editorially corrected standard practice …
MIL-STD-45662 was one of Document Center’s all time best selling standards, bar none. It was the quality standard for calibration until Mil Spec reform took over in the mid-90’s. So what ever happened to the …
JESD-22-A110 Revision D, Highly Accelerated Temperature and Humidity Stress Test (HAST), has just been released in November. It is one in a series of specialized tests for solid state devices maintained by the JEDEC Solid State …
The strong connection between European Union legislation and the corresponding “harmonized” standards has resulted in several important toy safety standards required for the sale of toys in Europe. Released as EN standards, they can only …
ST79, the AAMI recommended practice on Comprehensive guide to steam sterilization and sterility assurance in health care facilities, is now approved in a new 2010 Edition and public distribution is pending.
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