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Standards with relevance for technical documentation - October 2017

Date of issue: October 2017 DIN ISO 3864-2: Graphical symbols - Safety colors and safety signs - Part 2: Design principles for safety signs for application to products A revised version of DIN ISO 3864-2 is now available as a standard. DIN ISO 3864-2 has been adopted unchanged from ISO 3864-2. Furthermore, the changes made in May [...]

Curiosities from the world of standards - Part 3

Here we once again present a few curious finds from the field of standardization. Once again, there is a standard that stands out because of its title: DIN 38414-21:1996-02: "German standard method for the analysis of water, waste water and sludge - Sludge and sediments (Group S) - Part 21 : Determination of 6 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) [...]

Standards with relevance for technical documentation - July / August 2017

Date of issue: July 2017 DIN ISO 18587: Translation services - Post-editing of machine translations - Requirements DIN ISO 18587 was published as a draft in July. This standard deals with the post-editing of purely machine-produced translations. The standard deals with the part of the process that begins when the machine-generated translation is [...]

Curiosities from the world of standards - Part 2

From time to time, we examine the topic of standardization from a different perspective. Today, we have a few more intriguing insights from the world of standardization. Once again, we were struck by the meaningful titles of these standards. One example is DIN EN 301473: "Satellite earth stations and systems (SES) – Harmonized EN for aircraft earth stations [...]

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Standards with relevance for technical documentation - May 2017

Date of issue: May 2017 DIN EN ISO 15223-1: Medical devices - Symbols to be used with medical device labels, labeling and information to be supplied - Part 1: General requirements Part 1 of DIN EN ISO 15223 specifies requirements for symbols to be used with medical devices. This part of the standard is applicable to a wide range of medical devices [...]

Normen mit Relevanz für die Technische Dokumentation – Januar bis April 2017

Ausgabedatum: Januar 2017 DIN ISO 16016: Technische Produktdokumentation - Schutzvermerke zur Beschränkung der Nutzung von Dokumenten und Produkten Dieser Norm-Entwurf legt Schutzvermerke fest, welche die missbräuchliche Nutzung von Dokumenten unterbinden soll. Die in diesem Norm-Entwurf festgelegten Schutzvermerke haben eine warnende sowie klarstellende Funktion. Der ausführliche schriftliche Schutzvermerk ist zusätzlich in diversen Sprachen übersetzt aufgenommen. Der [...]

Curiosities from the world of standards

When you think of norms and other standards, you often get the impression that this is a rigid world and heavy fare. But if you take a closer look, you will discover unusual topics and the associated standards. From time to time in this blog, we will therefore also provide impressions from the curious part of the world of standards [...].

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Standards with relevance for technical documentation - December 2016

Ausgabedatum: Dezember 2016 DIN EN 764-1: Druckgeräte - Teil 1: Vokabular Diese Norm legt Begriffe und Symbole für Druckgeräte und Baugruppen fest, die gemäß Definition der Druckgeräterichtlinie unter diese Richtlinie fallen. Gegenüber der vorherigen Version wurde der informative Anhang B "Mehrsprachige Liste mit Begriffen" neu aufgenommen. Die Norm ist aktuell nur in Deutsch erhältlich. [...]

Standards relevant to technical documentation – August 2016

Date of publication: August 2016 DIN 2335: German language names for the Alpha-2 code according to ISO 639-1 The DIN 2335 standard was published this month. The standard contains the two-letter language codes listed in ISO 639-1. It specifies the recommended language names for use in German for the languages listed in ISO 639-1. This standard can always [...]

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Normen mit Relevanz für die Technische Dokumentation – Juni 2016

Ausgabedatum: Juni 2016 DIN EN ISO 17664: Aufbereitung von Produkten für die Gesundheitsfürsorge - Vom Medizinprodukt-Hersteller bereitzustellende Informationen für die Aufbereitung von Medizinprodukten Diesen Monat ist ein Norm-Entwurf zur DIN EN ISO 17664 erschienen. Die Norm gilt für Hersteller von Medizinprodukten, welche zur gebrauchsfertigen Aufbereitung durch den Anwender oder Dritte vorgesehen sind. Die Norm legt [...]

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