Standards provide a foundation for precision, safety, and innovation across diverse technological fields, ensuring consistency and reliability in global engineering practices.

Insights

The circular economy: building trust through conformity assessment
Standards and conformity assessment provide assurance on aspects of the circular economy including product lifetime and recyclability, safety and efficiency.
The benefits of implementing an environmental management system for your business

Prioritizing environmental sustainability isn’t just a trend: it’s a vital strategy for securing the health and prosperity of an organization for years to come. Balancing growth with environmental stewardship is more important than ever.

How standards shape a gender-responsive technological transformation

The future is digital, but more inclusiveness is needed. UN Women and ISO are partnering to promote a more gender-inclusive world. 

Top standards

Robotics — Safety requirements
Part 2: Industrial robot applications and robot cells

Graphical symbols — Safety colours and safety signs
Part 1: Design principles for safety signs and safety markings

Optics and photonics — Preparation of drawings for optical elements and systems
Part 7: Surface imperfections

Mechanical vibration — Measurement and evaluation of machine vibration
Part 3: Industrial machinery with a power rating above 15 kW and operating speeds between 120 r/min and 30 000 r/min

Welding — Fusion-welded joints in steel, nickel, titanium and their alloys (beam welding excluded) — Quality levels for imperfections

Compressed air
Part 1: Contaminants and purity classes