- How Does Your Crane Measure Up?
HEADNOTE Expert insights into hot-metal crane design, maintenance, and applications in a foundry operation. For metalcasters, advances in technology and engineering standards may be difficult to counter as staffs grow smaller and expertise gets more scarce. But, for melting and other applications, foundries need effective and reliable cranes. We found ......
- New standard for 'green' carpet: involving the entire supply chain.
A new standard for assessing the environmental-friendliness of carpet has been approved by the American National Standards Institute. It addresses chemicals and materials used in manufacturing carpet, the energy used in production, the use of recycled or bio-based content, methods of disposal or reuse and the overall environmental performance of ......
- ANSI approves BIFMA's furniture emissions
standards as American national standards.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Assn. (BIFMA) announced formal American National Standard Institute (ANSI) approval and release of the following two standards for volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from office furniture: ANSI/BIFMA M7.1-2007--Standard Test Method for Determining VOC Emissions from Office Furniture Systems, Components ......
- RIA update.
Material Handling Market Study Coming Soon RIA's industry statistics show that material handling applications are on the rise. To help suppliers and integrators tap into the opportunities surrounding this growing market, RIA has commissioned a market study focused exclusively on material handling applications. The new study will focus heavily on ......
- International steel casting specs being
set.
International Steel Casting Specs Being Set By 1992, the European Community will be a monolithic market of 320 million consumers. Euronorm Standards are being established, and will include criteria for steel castings. The member states of the European Community (EC) have committed to an ambitious program to create by 1992 ......
- ISC2(R) Information Security Credential Recognized for Meeting Certification Quality Standards.
(ISC)2 Credential Program Receives Fourth ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024 Accreditation, Leading Industry in Meeting National and Global Standards for Certification PALM HARBOR, Fla. -- (ISC)2[R]("ISC-squared"), the non-profit global leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers, today announced that a fourth information security credential has been recognized for meeting ......
- December
This month: ASA vs. ISO and tips on self-promotion ......