Standards from ISO

International Standard Book Numbers, standardized as ISO 2108 in 1970, uniquely identify books and editions. The system moved...

Standard for the Exchange of Product model data, the ISO 10303 family lets computer aided design systems exchange full 3D product...

The quality management standard dedicated to medical devices. It adds regulatory requirements for design controls, traceability...

The global benchmark for environmental management systems. Organizations use it to control environmental aspects, set targets...

The application of risk management to medical devices, harmonized in the European Union and recognized by the United States Food...

The standard defining A, B and C paper sizes, where A0 is one square meter and each halving keeps the same proportions. Georg...

The food safety management system standard combining hazard analysis critical control point principles with prerequisite programs...

The standard for business continuity management systems. It requires business impact analysis, risk assessment, defined recovery...

Guidance on social responsibility covering organizational governance, human rights, labour practices, the environment, fair...

The adaptation of IEC 61508 to road vehicles, governing functional safety from hazard analysis through production. It grades...

The standard system of limits and fits for mating parts, originating in 1920s international work and published as ISO 286 in...

Principles and guidelines for risk management applied to any organization and any risk type. It offers a framework and process...

Country and subdivision codes, from FR for France to JP for Japan, first published in 1974. The alpha 2 codes underpin internet...

Three letter currency codes such as USD, EUR and JPY, standardized since 1978. They define minor units, so most currencies carry...

The international standard for occupational health and safety management systems. It replaced the British OHSAS 18001, drawing on...

The standard for energy management systems. It guides organizations to benchmark energy performance indicators, set baselines and...

Language codes, from the two letter set 1 codes like en and fr to the three letter sets covering more than seven thousand...

The standard that fixed the dimensions and corner castings of freight containers, building on the boxes Malcom McLean sailed in...

The register of standardized safety signs, from the green running man exit sign to warning triangles. Using registered pictograms...

The international date and time notation standard, best known for YYYY-MM-DD ordering that sorts correctly. The 2019 edition...

The best known quality management standard in the world. It defines a process based system built on the plan do check act cycle...

ISO/IEC 9899 defines the C programming language, first standardized by ANSI in 1989 and by ISO in 1990. Dennis Ritchie created C...

The 60 degree V profile thread, designated M6 or M8 with pitch, was one of the first international standards agreed after ISO was...

The Universal Coded Character Set, first published in 1993, assigns unique numbers to characters of all scripts, now more than...

The competence standard for testing and calibration laboratories. Accreditation bodies worldwide assess labs against its...

The leading standard for information security management systems, descended from the British standard BS 7799. It requires a risk...

The eight digit International Standard Serial Number identifies newspapers, magazines and journals, administered from Paris since...

The image compression standard from the Joint Photographic Experts Group, using discrete cosine transform to shrink photos by ten...

MPEG 1 Audio Layer III, standardized in ISO/IEC 11172-3 from research led by Karlheinz Brandenburg at Fraunhofer. It made digital...

Message Queuing Telemetry Transport began at IBM in 1999 to monitor oil pipelines and became ISO/IEC 20922 in 2016. Its...

Portable Document Format, created by Adobe in 1993, was standardized as ISO 32000 in 2008. The format preserves layout across...

Quick Response codes were invented in 1994 by Masahiro Hara at Denso Wave to track car parts, then released essentially royalty...

ISO/IEC 9075 standardizes the database query language developed at IBM by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce in the 1970s as...