Setting the standard Making industry standards a way of life will benefit us all

摘要

All of us take standards for granted. Yet without them, much of what we do today would not be possible, including the use of the Internet, telephones, e-mail and the electricity on which we run it all. In Canada, the Standards Council of Canada oversees all the standards used within the country and represents us on the global stage. The council has offices in Ottawa but, like most standards-setting bodies, it relies on experts from various fields to provide the knowledge on which the standards are based. The SCC is a member of the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), which is the international standards setting body of most interest to those of us in the automation profession. (There are also some standards from a similar global organization ISO, but we will focus on the IEC standards for now).