I am having difficulty keeping track of present and future standards, and would like people+s ideas. Some of my questions are:
1. We want to produce a written procedure indicating how we will know that standards we use are up-to-date and that we have all that are required. There are some subscription services which take a list of standards and provide updates as needed. Any other ideas? Anyone know some good web sites? (some have been mentioned, but not having web access at the time I didn+t save them.) Global Engineering has a World-Wide Standards Index, with a program to compare your list of standards and identify updates. ILI has a similar product (whoever they are.) St. Lucie Press, 561-274-9906, has a subscription service for European Directives which sounds pretty good. For US $95.00 per directive (or sometimes group of related directives) they+ll send you the current directive and place you on an order list for revisions. When a revision is made they send it to you and bill you $95.00. 2. The above will work for published standards. Any thoughts on how to identify/get drafts standards? I used to be on several standards writing committees, and word got around. I no longer have that access. 3. With many design engineers, one paper copy of each standard is very restrictive. Multiple copies are expensive. Electronic copies come in a bewildering variety of formats. Any suggestions concerning standards access? I+m primarily interested in: AAMI (medical equipment) CSA EC directives EMC (CISPR, EN, IEC) IEC/EN/ISO MIL UL
