ANSI. (American National Standards Institute)

ANSI (American National Standards Institute) was founded in 1918, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), is a private, not-for-profit membership organization that coordinates the U.S. voluntary consensus standards system and approves American National Standards.

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American National Standards Institute

The WWW home page of the ANSI

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ANSI consists of approximately 1,300 national and international companies, 30 government agencies, 20 institutional members, and 250 professional, technical, trade, labor and consumer organizations.

ANSI acts to insure that a single consistent set of consensus-based American National Standards are developed by ANSI-accredited standards developers. Integral to the development and approval process is the requirement that all interests concerned have the opportunity to participate in the development process.

The American National Standards Institute

• coordinates voluntary standards activities.
• approves American National Standards.
• represents U.S. interests in international standardization.
• provides information on and access to world standards.

ANSI assists standards developers and standards users from the private sector and government in reaching agreement on the need for standards and on establishing priorities. It accredits qualified organizations to develop standards, helps them to avoid duplication of effort and offers a neutral forum for resolving differences. ANSI's Executive Standards Council and standards boards spearhead this effort.