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Standards and quality

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Standards and quality/ Anwar El-Tawil.
Author:	El-Tawil, Anwar.
Published:	[Hackensack] New Jersey :World Scientific Publishing, : 2015.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Standards, Engineering. -
Online resource:	http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9320#t=toc
ISBN:	9789814623582

Standards and quality
El-Tawil, Anwar.

Standards and quality[electronic resource] /Anwar El-Tawil. - [Hackensack] New Jersey :World Scientific Publishing,2015. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Standards and their benefits. 1.1. What are standards? 1.2. The benefits of standards. 1.3. The evolution of standardization. 1.4. Should standards be made mandatory? 1.5. Should there be standards in all areas of human activity? -- ch. 2. The standardization process. 2.1. Establishing national standards. 2.2. The standards development plan or work programme. 2.3. Developing and approving standards. 2.4. Promotion of the use of published standards. 2.5. Maintaining standards -- ch. 3. The national standards body. 3.1. Why a national standards body? 3.2. Characteristics of the national standards body. 3.3. National standardization policy. 3.4. Standardization law. 3.5. Governance of the National Standards Body (NSB). 3.6. Directives for technical work. 3.7. Financing national standardization. 3.8. Human resources of the NSB -- ch. 4. International standardization. 4.1. A brief history of international standardization. 4.2. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO). 4.3. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). 4.4. Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC). 4.5. The International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML). 4.6. "Private" international standards -- ch. 5. Conformity to standards -- certification and accreditation. 5.1. The meaning and importance of conformity assessment. 5.2. Types of conformity assessment. 5.3. Advantages of third party conformity assessment. 5.4. Functions of third party conformity assessment. 5.5. Conformity assessment bodies. 5.6. Requirements of Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs). 5.7. Acceptance of third party conformity assessment -- ch. 6. Standards and trade. 6.1. The impact of trade growth on standards. 6.2. Principles of the multilateral trading system and their reflexion on standards. 6.3. Technical barriers to trade. 6.4. Sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures. 6.5. Fields of application of the TBT and SPS agreement -- ch. 7. Quality and quality management systems. 7.1. The evolution of quality concepts. 7.2. The evolution of quality management. 7.3. How ISO 9000 came into being. 7.4. The ISO 9000 family of standards. 7.5. Implementation of ISO 9000 in the world. 7.6. Principles of quality management systems. 7.7. Statistical quality control tools. 7.8. Investigating the causes of non-conformity. 7.9. Six-sigma approach to quality management. 7.10. Comparison between ISO 9000 and six-sigma -- ch. 8. Environmental management systems. 8.1. Man and the environment -- why ISO 14000? 8.2. Environmental management systems -- ch. 9. Overview of other management systems. 9.1. Other international standards for management systems. 9.2. Overview of ISO 22000 standards on food safety management. 9.3. Standards on social responsibility. 9.4. Standards on information security management. 9.5. ISO standards on risk management. 9.6. ISO standards on energy management -- ch. 10. The role of metrology -- the quality infrastructure. 10.1. The applications of metrology. 10.2. Legal metrology. 10.3. Industrial and applied metrology. 10.4. Primary (or scientific) metrology. 10.5. The international system of units. 10.6. The quality infrastructure.

The book brings together a number of subjects of prime importance for any practicing engineer and students of engineering. The book explains the concepts and functions of voluntary standards, mandatory technical regulations, conformity assessment (testing and measurement of products), certification, quality and quality management systems as well as other management systems such as environmental, social responsibility and food safety management systems. The book also gives a comprehensive description of the role of metrology systems that underpin conformity assessment. A description is given of typical national systems of standards, quality and metrology and how they relate directly or through regional structures to international systems. The book also covers the relation between standards and trade and explains the context and stipulations of the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

ISBN: 9789814623582Subjects--Topical Terms:

903379
Standards, Engineering.

LC Class. No.: TA368 / .E43 2015eb

Dewey Class. No.: 620.002/18

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