Standards and StandardizationNewell Hampson-Jones, Education Sector Representative, British Standards Institution

25th November, 2011

Produced in Collaboration with:Dr Eujin Pei, FRSADe Montfort University

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What are standards?

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Before Standardization

• c. 3000 BC – c. 1500 BC Indus Valley Civilization First to develop uniform weights and measures

• c. 80–70 BC – c. 15 BC Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ‘The first engineer’

• 1215 Magna Carta Clause 35 established consistent measures

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The Birth of Standardization

• Industrial Revolution

• 1841 – Sir Joseph Whitworth

• 1850 onwards – The birth of the railways

• 1895 – Henry Skelton

• 1901 – Sir John Wolfe-BarryImage: Tom Curtis /

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History of BSI

1900

2010

1946

Founder member of ISO

1929

Granted Royal Charter

1901

Engineering Standards Committee founded in London

1903

Kitemark introducedFirst StandardsBS 1 published

1931

Renamed BSI

1959

First laboratories opened

1964

Founder Member of CEN & CENELEC

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Types of Standard

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European Standards (EN)

Publicly Available Specifications (PAS)

Private Standards

British Standards (BS)

Corporate Technical Specifications

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• Proposal for new work• Project acceptance• Drafting• Public Comment• Approval• Publication• Review

The Standardization Process

• European standards body

• Differences in process

• Adoption by Weighted vote

European Committee for

Standardization (CEN)

• International (global) standards body

• One member, one vote.

• Final Draft International Standard

International Organization for Standardization

(ISO)

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Standards and

Innovation

Blind, K.., Gauch, S., (2007). “Standardization Benefits Researchers.” Wissenschaftsmanagement Special, 2007 (2), pp. 16-17

Standards and Innovative Research

Standards in the research and innovation process, by Blind & Gauch

Bakal, M., (2011). Challenges and Opportunities For The Medical Device Industry: Meeting The New IEC 62304 Standard RTC, [online] Available at:<http://rtcmagazine.com/articles/view/102203>.

Bakal’s typical stages both software and hardware teams use for analysis, design, implementation, and testing.

Using Standards to Design & Engineer

Innovation

Using Standards to Design & Engineer

Innovation

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Testing• Snapshot in time

• Susceptible to golden sampling

• “The sample submitted complied with the requirements of EN XXXX”

Certification• More than just a

test or quality control system

• Many certification and testing bodies in the UK

• UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service)

Testing and Certification

Using Standards to Design & Engineer

Innovation

CE Mark

• Conformity to New Approach Directives

• Not a quality mark

• Mandatory in the EU

• BSI cannot give authority to apply the CE marking

• It is illegal to use the CE marking on a product that is outside the scope of all the New Approach directives.

Kitemark is…• Owned exclusively by BSI

• Issued under Licence

• 3rd party voluntary mark of quality and safety

The Process• Pre-Audit visit

• Initial Assessment visit

• Type Testing of new product

• Initial assessment report

• Award of Kitemark

• Continuing assessment visits

• Audit testing

CE and the Kitemark®

Using Standards to Design & Engineer

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Useful Standards for Engineers

British Standards and GPS

The Controlling Standards

• BS 8887 Specification for the preparation, content and structure of design output for manufacture, assembly, disassembly and end of life processing (MADE)

• BS 8888 Technical Product Specification

• BS 8889 Contribution to specification process; data collection; decision rules; instrumentation, calibration, uncertainty / traceability.

The Elements

of an Engineering Drawing

Geometric Product Specifications

“Within BS 8888, Geometric Product Specification (GPS), provides the link between design intent and metrology. It is the international specification language that communicates component functional requirements, defines a common datum system, controls tooling, assembly, and verification interfaces, ensuring compliance with a uniform international standard. The system is:

Designed and developed by engineers for engineers A shorthand language for the engineering industry Clear, consistent, and unambiguous Applies across the entire design, manufacture and quality processes”

A language for specification and verification of technical requirements

Geometrical

Product

Specification

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• a systematic methodology

• complete and unambiguous

• covers specification and verification of workpiece geometry

• mathematically consistent

• rigorously defined

• documented in a series of interlinked ISO standards

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Why do we need GPS?

• With greater precision and accuracy interpretation become more significant

• CAD, CAM and CAQ systems demand formal mathematical definitions

• Globalisation

Why do we need GPS?

The British Standards Committee for GPS estimates that manufacturing industry wastes between 15% and 20% of production costs due to problems with technical product specifications. Globally, this adds up to £1.5 trillion every year.

Effective use of GPS leads to…

• improved fit and function of parts

• reduced production costs

• better quality

• better product reliability

• less scrap

• fewer disputes over compliance

• faster time-to-market

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Name: Newell Hampson-Jones

Title: Education Sector Representative

Address: BSI

389 Chiswick High Road

London

W4 4AL

Telephone: 020 8996 7227 / 07767 886 713

Email: newell.hampson-jones@bsigroup.com

Links: www.bsigroup.com / www.bsieducation.org

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