Product Standardization and Specifications

Product Standardization and Specifications

During World War II, ASME’s Standardization Committee cooperated actively with standards bodies from Great Britain, Canada, and Australia to help the war effort, leading to the publication of Emergency Standards. Establishing best manufacturing practices ensured consistency, quality, and interchangeability in products. This was necessary not only for efficient manufacturing, but also reliable construction of systems involving these products.

Resulting from a reorganization of the Society, the ASME Board on Standardization was formed in 1982 under the ASME Council on Codes and Standards. This Board assumed all the authority, responsibility, duties, and function of the former Standardization Committee which had been in existence for many decades and produced several prominent leaders of the Society, including several presidents. To this day, the Board oversees many of 

Some of the originating key activities were the standardization of drafting practices and numerous dimensional standards, including hand tools, cutting tools, machine tools, fasteners, and threads. The latter project was initiated after the Baltimore fire to standardize fire hose couplings and was the initial activity under the Board.

To this day, ASME has an extensive portfolio of over 400 standards related to design, drafting, gaging, and application of manufactured parts, some of which are used for construction of household products and industrial plants. This page includes many of the standards activities under the Board of Standardization, specifically those related to product specification and standardization.

 

Product Standardization and Specifications

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