The American National Standards Institute ANSI recently approved ANSI X9.42-2001, Public Key Cryptography For the Financial Services Industry: Agreement of Symmetric Keys Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography, as an ANSI standard. MST's role in producing the standard involved coordinating the development of the standard and serving as primary editor. The X9.42-2001...
Standard 90.1, the energy conservation standard published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers ASHRAE, has been approved by the American National Standards Institute ANSI. ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-1999, "Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings," provide the minimum requirements for the design of energy efficient...
The newly released ANSI/PMMI B155.1-2006 standard specifies risk assessment responsibilities for packaging machinery users and suppliers. ANSI/PMMI B155.1-2006 (B155.1) is a voluntary standard that provides safety requirements for packaging machinery and related converting machinery. Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute PMMI is secretariat for this standard. PMMI membership approved the first version...
Standard 90.1, the energy conservation standard published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, has been approved by the American National Standards Institute ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-1999, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, provides the minimum requirements for the design of...
ATLANTA, GA -- Standard 90.1, the energy conservation standard published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers ASHRAE, has been approved by the American National Standards Institute ANSI. ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-1999, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, provides...
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. UL has published its first edition of the American National Standard for Meat and Poultry Plant Equipment, ANSI/UL 2128. Based on USDA Food Safety Inspection Service FSIS sanitation guidelines, ANSI/UL 2128 was designated by the American National Standard Institute ANSI...
EASA repair standard adopted by ANSI The American National Standards Institute has adopted Standard ANSI/EASA AR-100, Recommended Practice for the Repair of Rotating Electrical Apparatus, written by the Technical Services Committee of the Electrical Apparatus Service Association. More than 75% of the balloting "canvass group" voted for approval. Since ANSI...
The American Industrial Hygiene Association AIHA, secretariat for ANSI Accredited Standards Committee Z9 on Health and Safety Standards for Ventilation Systems, has released ANSI/AIHA Z9.5-2003, American National Standard: Laboratory Ventilation. The 111-page standard, last updated in 1992, includes new chapters on performance tests,...
PALO ALTO, Calif.--IBM and Hewlett-Packard agreed to jointly develop fiber optic channel connectivity cards based on a proposed ANSI standard, but without saying when either company plans to support the standard on its own machines.
NIST revised the standard and managed the ANSI approval procedures for the Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial, & Scar Mark & Tattoo SMT Information, ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000. The new version consolidates two previous standards published in 1993 and 1997. Two hundred federal, state, local, and international law enforcement...
While OSHA has not officially adopted the 2004 American National Standard Institute ANSI Z358.1 emergency standard, OSHA generally refers to it as a guide for the selection and installation of eyewashes and drench showers. While OSHA has not officially adopted the 2004 American...
The Energy and Environmental Management Center EMC of the Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, announced the adoption of its Management System for Energy (MSE 2000) by the American National Standards Institute ANSI. It's the first management system for energy standards adopted nationally by ANSI.
Osmonics Inc. has received the National Science Foundation's ANSI/NSF Standard 53 certification for its Flotrex GF pleated filters. ANSI/NSF Standard 53 focuses on drinking water equipment that can successfully remove excessive levels of contaminants Osmonics Inc. has received the National Science Foundation's ANSI/NSF Standard 53...
There is often a lot of confusion between the two types of carbide insert designation systems. The American National Standard Institute and the International Standards Organization both assign meaning to each letter and number, but the ANSI is based on inches and ISO on the metric system.
Safety professionals who understand the need for and use of protective eyewear may nonetheless be perplexed by the recently revised ANSI Z87.1-2003 Standard. The revisions of the American National Standards Institute's voluntary, though commonly comp Safety professionals who understand the need for and use of ...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA and the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards INCITS announced today the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) has been approved as a new INCITS standard. The standard was approved by the INCITS executive board and has been designated as ANSI INCITS...
Another change that will affect the way schools are designed and built is the new ANSI Standard $12.60-2002 ["The ABCs of K-12," BD&C, June]. This standard includes requirements for background and intrusive noise control, sound isolation, and room acoustic control to ensure an optimum learning environment....
GE Osmonics has launched the first NSF/ANSI Standard 61 certified spiral wound membrane elements for the production of consistent, high quality water for juices, carbonated soft drinks, bottled water and other beverages. The OSMO BEV series of RO and NF modules are designed to complement the company's OSMO BEV water...
A new ANSI/ISA standard sets specific mandates for the integrity of such systems. Engineers involved with a process unit that utilizes an instrumented system to prevent or I mitigate potentially unsafe conditions need to be aware of the new requirements within ANSI/ISA S84.011996. In February 1996, the...
The 1996 edition of the American National Standards Institute standard Z765, "Single-Family Residential Buildings - Square Footage Method for Calculating," is undergoing a maintenance review and public comment period as required by ANSI procedures. This standard describes the procedures to be followed in measuring and calculating the square footage of...
