Description
Practical Guide to International Standardization for Electrical Engineering provides a comprehensive guide to the purpose of standards organizations, their relationship to product development and how to use the standardization process for cost-effective new product launch. It covers major standardization organizations in the field of Electrical Engineering offering a general overview of the varying structures of national standardization organizations, their goals and targets.
Key questions for standardization are answered giving the reader guidance on how to use national and international standards in the electrical business. When shall the company start to enter standardization? How to evaluate the standardization in relationship to the market success? What are the interactions of innovations and market access? What is the cost of standardization? What are the gains for our experts in standardization?
Key features:
- Provides guidance on how to use national and international standards in the electrical business.
- Global active standardization bodies featured include IEEE, IEC and CIGRE as well as regional organizations like CENELEC for Europe, SAC for China, DKE for Germany, and ANSI for USA.
- Case studies demonstrate how standardization affects the business and how it may block or open markets.
- Explains the multiple connections and influences between the different standardization organizations on international, regional or national levels and regulatory impact to the standardization processes.
- Two detailed focused case studies, one on Smart Grid and one on Electro-Mobility, show the influence and the work of international standardization. The case studies explain how innovative technical developments are promoted by standards and what are the roles of standardization organizations are.
A valuable reference for electrical engineers, designers, developers, test engineers, sales engineers, marketing engineers and users of electrical equipment as well as authorities and business planners to use and work with standards.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Mark Waldron xi
Bernhard Thies xiii
Markus Reigl xv
Damir Novosel xvii
Preface xix
Acknowledgements xxi
Abbreviations xxiii
Glossaryxxxi
1 Why Standards? 1
1.1 General Introduction 1
1.2 War on Standards 2
1.3 Main Players 3
1.3.1 Europe 3
1.3.2 America 5
1.3.3 Asia and Oceania 22
1.3.4 Africa 27
1.4 The Public View of Standardization 27
1.5 Right Timing 29
1.5.1 General 29
1.5.2 Innovation Process 29
1.5.3 Market Access 30
1.5.4 Regulatory Processes 31
1.6 Benefits of Standards 31
2 Framework for Standards 37
2.1 General 37
2.2 World Trade Organization 37
2.2.1 General 37
2.2.2 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE) 38
2.2.3 United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN ECA) 39
2.2.4 United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC) 40
2.2.5 United Nation Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) 41
2.3 European Union 42
2.3.1 General 42
2.3.2 European Commission 44
2.4 Regional 45
2.4.1 United States 45
2.4.2 China 47
2.4.3 Europe 50
3 Standardization Processes 53
3.1 General 53
3.2 Principles 53
3.3 Legal Relevance 57
3.4 Benefits of Standardization 57
4 Development of Standards 59
4.1 General 59
4.1.1 Basic Process 59
4.1.2 Organizations 61
4.2 International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 62
4.2.1 General 62
4.2.2 Mission and Objectives 62
4.2.3 Organization 63
4.2.4 Members 70
4.2.5 Types of Documents 73
4.2.6 Dresden Agreement 75
4.2.7 Steps in Standards 77
4.3 International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 79
4.3.1 General 79
4.3.2 ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC 1) 81
4.3.3 ISO Strategy 81
4.4 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 83
4.4.1 General 83
4.4.2 Organization 83
4.5 CENELEC 84
4.5.1 General 84
4.5.2 Goals 85
4.5.3 Organization 86
