October 14, the whole world celebrates International Standardization Day. With this holiday people who are engaged in difficult work are congratulated: norm-setting activity.
It is compliance with uniform requirements in all sphereshuman activity. Standardization developed and improved along with the development of society. Today it is a process, the result of which is the definition and documenting of universal rational norms and rules.
International relations in various fieldsrequire an equal approach to reaching agreements. The market must have unambiguous regulatory requirements for the manufacturer and the consumer. The division of production processes between countries producing and consuming goods and services requires the existence of uniform regulatory documents and standards.
Products, terms, methods, designations and so onfurther - these are objects of rationing for today. Standardization and metrology are interrelated, they work to ensure the quality of products, services, works.
In 1946 this day the Londonconference of world communities on standardization. There were 65 delegates from 25 countries. The delegation from the USSR was also represented at this event.
A universally recognized fact:standardization significantly affects production, its level and pace of development. It should keep pace with the latest developments and achievements, implemented and applied by mankind, normalizing and documenting their parameters.
When the organization was created, much attentionwas given to its name. It was required that the abbreviation should be pronounced equally in all languages. We stopped at a brief ISO, from the Greek word "equal".
Today, the ISO is composed of 165 countries. International Standardization Day, first of all, their holiday.
The procedure for developing the standard has been established, itconsists of six stages. The creation of one document takes 5-6 years. It is developed by the technical commissions of the organization and subcommittees. The documents reflect the agreement of the participants of the ISO countries. In the state standards, it can be implemented as a basis or used in the activities in its original form.
The volume of work can be estimated from such data: the organization has developed more than 7 thousand international standards, annually published about 500 revised or new documents.
The USSR, which was one of the organizers of the IDF, was also permanently part of the governing bodies. Russia took the place of a member of the ISO Council as its successor in 2005.
Along with ISO, there is the International Electrotechnical Commission, which was established earlier, dealing with electrical engineering, electronics and communications. All other issues are the scope of ISO.
The methods of standardization began to apply verylong. In ancient Rome, the selection of pipes of the same diameter when laying a water pipe - this is the elements of this type of activity. In the Renaissance, if a large number of ships were to be built, galleys were assembled in Venice from prefabricated units in different locations. In the 18th century, a French gunsmith's factory produced 50 locks for rifles that approached them without fitting.
With the adoption in 1875 of the International Metric Convention and the organization of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures with the participation of 19 states, it was possible to start celebrating the Day of Standardization on the planet.
