My Subject: Product Design and Design Engineering: Standards

Standards

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Standards are:

An agreed level of quality or way of doing something
Often legally binding
Created by experts
Can be International, European, national or applicable to an industry or trade
Provide guidance, a framework or an acceptable level

British Standards Institute

The British Standards Institute (BSI) is the business standards company that helps organizations all over the world make excellence a habit. BSI help businesses improve performance, reduce risk and achieve sustainable growth. Find out more:

British Standards Institute

Finding Standards

You can search for Standards using a number of resources:

British Standards Online (BSOL) This link opens in a new window British Standards Online: The Library has a subscription to British Standards Online (BSOL). BSOL is a database of more than 50,000 British and adopted European and international standards covering all subject areas. The Library provides full-text access to up to 150 standards selected by your lecturers. A guide is available below. If you need a Standard that we don't have access to, then email Vanessa Hill (v.hill@mdx.ac.uk) .
IEEE Xplore (IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)) This link opens in a new window IEEE Xplore: Our subscription includes access to over 3,800 full-text technical standards covering a range of subjects including: bio engineering communication computing engineering robotics signal processing transportation

BSI Telecoms Service
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BSI Telecoms service is a website for telecoms standards and specification users. Search, read, and download standards, specifications and reports published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute - ETSI.
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
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ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, broadcast and Internet technologies. Our standards enable the technologies on which business and society rely.

Product Design and Design Engineering: Standards

Standards

British Standards Institute

Finding Standards

Using British Standards Online