We Engineer’s always listen the standards during our professional life from our senior’s, sub-contractor’s and from our customers. Below are the most common standards used in our daily life and their basic purpose.
Standard
A standard can be defined as a set of technical definitions and guidelines, “how to” instructions for designers, manufacturers, and users.
Standards promote safety, reliability, productivity, and efficiency in almost every industry that relies on engineering components or equipment. Standards can run from a few paragraphs to hundreds of pages, and are written by experts with knowledge and expertise in a particular field who sit on many committees.
List of Standard
1. ISO : International organisation for Standards
ISO 9001 : 2015 – ISO Standard for a quality management system.
ISO 14001 : 2015 – ISO standard for Environmental management system.
ISO 45001 : 2018 – ISO Standard for Occupational health and safety Management
2. BIS : Bureau of Indian Standard
BIS is the National standard body of of India. BIS develop & publish Indian Standards, Implement Conformity Assessment Schemes, Recognise & run laboratories for Conformity Assessment, Implement Hallmarking, Work for Consumer empowerment, Conduct capacity building programs on quality assurance and represent the country in ISO & IEC.
IS 2062 : 2011 – Hot rolled medium high tensile structural steel except for bars and rods of diameter or thickness less than 6 mm and structural below 50 mm x 50 mm x 6 mm
IS 2002 : 2009 : Steel plates for pressure vessels for intermediate and high temperature service including boilers.
3. ASME : American society of Mechanical Engineering
It is a professional association that promotes the art, science & practice of multidisciplinary engineering around the globe. It is the most trusted standard used around the globe.
ASME B16.5 – Standards for Pipe Flanges and Flanged Fittings: NPS 1/2 through NPS 24 Metric/Inch Standard
ASME B16.10 – Face to Face and End to End Dimensions of Valves
ASME B16.25 – Buttwelding Ends
ASME B16.34 – Valves Flanged, Threaded and Welding End
ASME B16.9 – Factory-Made Wrought Buttwelding Fittings
ASME B16.11 – Forged Fittings, Socket-Welding and Threaded
ASME B16.47 – Large Diameter Steel Flanges: NPS 26 Through NPS 60 Metric/Inch Standard
4. API : American Petroleum Institute
API standards-setting organization and is the global leader in convening subject matter experts across segments to establish, maintain, and distribute consensus standards for the oil and gas industry.
API 526 – Flanged Steel Pressure-Relief Valves
API 600 – Bolted Bonnet Steel Gate Valves for Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries
API 6D – Pipeline and pipeline valves in the petroleum and natural gas industries
API 610 – Centrifugal Pumps for Petroleum, Petrochemical and Natural Gas Industries
API 611 – General Purpose Steam Turbines for Petroleum, Chemical, Gas Industry Services
5. AWS : American welding Society
AWS standards are for welding practices and procedures for construction and aerospace covering structural steel, sheet steel and aluminium.
6. EN Standards
The European Standard for the products, processes or services to meet the requirement of the fitness for a particular purpose.
EN 10204:2004 is a European standard for material certificates. There are 4 type of EN certificate
EN 10204 3.2, EN 10204 3.1, EN 10204 2.2 and EN 10204 2.1
7. AGA : American Gas Association
AGA standards address the design, installation and maintenance of natural gas operations.
AGA 3 – Gas Flow Measurement by Orifice Metering
AGA 7 – Measurement of Gas by Turbine Meter
AGA 8 – Compressibility Factors of Natural gas & other related Hydrocarbon Gases
AGA 9 – Measurement of Gas by Multipath Ultrasonic gas flow meter
AGA 10 – Speed of Sound in Natural gas and other related Hydrocarbon Gases
AGA 11 – Measurement of Gas by Coriolis Meter
8. IEC : International Electrotechnical Commission
IEC 60038 – IEC Standard Voltages
IEC 60045 Steam turbines
IEC 60079 Explosive Atmospheres
IEC 60529 Degrees of protection provided by enclosures
9. OIML : International Organisation of Legal Metrology
10. MPMS : Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standard
11. ASTM : American Society for Testing and Materials
It is an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services
