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ANSI

American National Standards Institute
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American National Standards Institute

An independent organization of trade associations, technical societies, professional groups, and consumer organizations; establishes and publishes standards; formerly known as the United States of America Standards Institute (USASI or ASI), and previously as the American Standards Association (ASA).
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ANSI

(American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. Information technology standards pertain to programming languages, EDI, telecommunications and physical properties of diskettes, cartridges and magnetic tapes.
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ANSI's accreditation of standards developers and US Technical Advisory Groups to international technical committees will remain separately and internally operated by ANSI.
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According to the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Assn., ANSI approval of the revised standard concludes an extensive two-year process, which included participation and review by consumer and supplier organizations, builders, remodelers, the U.S.
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For example, in the widely used ANSI C63.4 standard on measuring emissions, antennas shall be calibrated using ANSI C63.5 in performing radiated emissions measurements per FCC Part 15 for low-power devices such as those for information technology equipment.
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event, co-chaired by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), was organized to spotlight the relevance of standards to the worldwide economy and their importance in regards to safety-related issues.
American National Standards and the RIM industry: a primer: standards are important to the records and information management (RIM) industry, and American National Standards should play an increasingly prominent role in the industry's ongoing quest for quality

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