ANSI American National Standards The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) was founded in 1918 and is a non-profit private standardization group.

The U.S. government departments such as the Department of Commerce, Department of the Army, and Department of the Navy, as well as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers (ASMME), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the American Electrical

Organizations such as the Institute of Engineers (AIEE) have participated in the preparatory work of ANSI. ANSI has actually become the national standardization center of the United States, and standardization activities from all walks of life in the United States are centered around it.

ANSI enables government-related systems and private systems to cooperate with each other and serves as a bridge between government and private standardization systems.

ANSI coordinates and guides standardization activities across the United States, assists standards formulation, research, and user units, and provides domestic and foreign standardization information.

At the same time, it also plays the role of the standardization administrative agency in the United States.

1. Organizational Structure ANSI is led by the Executive Board and consists of four committees: Academic Committee, Board of Directors, Member Council and Secretariat.

Academic committees include: Executive Standards Conference, International Technical Committee, Patent Group, Standards and Data Business Committee, Authorization Committee, US National Committee, etc.

The Board of Directors consists of the Executive Committee, the Finance Committee, the Board of Directors and the Conformity Assessment Committee, the International Committee and the National Publications Committee.

The members' parliament includes the company's members' parliament, the government's members' parliament, the organization's members' parliament and the consumer rights parliament.

The secretariat is composed of senior managers, standards publication division and management execution division.

2. Member status ANSI currently has about 200 members from industrial studies, associations and other groups, and about 1,400 company (enterprise) members.

Its funding comes from membership fees and sales of standard materials, without government funds.

The leadership body is the board of directors composed of the chairman, vice chairman and 50 senior business representatives, which exercises leadership power.

When the board of directors is not in session, the executive committee exercises its powers, and the executive committee has a standards review committee composed of 15 people.

Headquarters are in New York, with satellite offices in Washington.

National Bureau of Standards (NBS) staff and official representatives from many other agencies of the U.S. government also participate in the work of the American Standards Institute in a variety of ways.

The American Standards Institute has various technical committees such as electrical engineering, construction, daily necessities, drawing, and materials testing.

3. Work Procedures Due to the diversity and liberalization of American society, the United States has formed a unique decentralized standard system. In addition to the standards formulated by various enterprises and companies, there are also nearly 400 professional institutions, societies, and associations that formulate and publish standards.

standards in their respective professional fields, and more than 580 organizations participate in standardization activities.

Its corporate standardization work also started early and has been quite effective.

As enterprises continue to expand, the standardization organizations for enterprise management are also expanding.

Some standardization organizations are led by managers, while others are led by design units or process units.

Corporate standards are generally not available to the public.

In 1996 alone, the standard increased by 4%, reaching a total of 13,056.

The American National Standards Institute itself rarely sets standards.

The preparation of ANSI standards mainly adopts the following three methods: 1. Relevant units are responsible for drafting, inviting experts or professional groups to vote, and the results are submitted to the standards review meeting established by ANSI for review and approval.

This method is called polling method.

2. Representatives of ANSI's technical committee and committees organized by other organizations prepare draft standards, all members vote, and are finally reviewed and approved by the standards review committee.

This method is called the committee method.

3. Among the standards formulated by various professional societies and associations, those that are more mature and of general importance to the country will be upgraded to national standards (ANSI) and given the ANSI standard code after review by ANSI technical committees.

and classification number, but retain the original professional standard code.

The vast majority of American National Standards Institute standards come from professional standards.

On the other hand, various professional societies and associations can also formulate certain product standards based on existing national standards.

Of course, you can also formulate your own association standards instead of national standards.

ANSI standards are adopted on a voluntary basis.

The United States believes that mandatory standards may limit productivity improvements.

However, standards cited by law and formulated by government departments are generally mandatory standards.