A note in advance: This text is not to be understood as binding legal information, but contains the personal opinion of the authors, formed on the basis of researched standards. We do not consider the content and wording of warnings in this blog post. There are two specific reasons for this blog post. One was a few years ago, [...].
Date of issue: January 2018 DIN EN ISO 20607: Safety of machinery - Instruction handbooks - General principles for design DIN EN ISO 20607 has been available as a draft since this month. The standard deals with requirements for the design of operating instructions for machinery. These requirements are a supplement to chapter 6.4 of DIN EN ISO 12100, in [...]
Issue date: November 2017 VDI 4500-6: Technical documentation - Documentation process - Publishing VDI Guideline 4500-6 has been available as a draft since this month. The guideline looks at the entire publication process within technical documentation. To this end, the guideline deals with the management of content, the production, management and distribution of the publication through to archiving [...].
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...].
