Imagine moving into a new house and going to plug your refrigerator into the wall - only to find that the plug doesn't match the outlet!. Electrical standards set decades ago to ensure such problems don't happen. And standards today allow you to get your product developed in a manner to be easily used anywhere in the world. You can check up almost any kind of stereo component from any electronics store.
All of these conveniences are the result of a standard, a set of characteristics or quantities that describes features of a product, process, service, interface or material.
Standards don't just make life easier, they make it safer…and they enhance companies' profitability. For instance, builders save money because construction materials are available in standard sizes. At the same time, electrical codes that builders must follow save lives.
More than 4,000 individuals cooperating with more than 140 committees, subcommittees, working groups and task forces are involved in ISA standards. They're developing standards in areas as diverse as ensuring the safety of electrical equipment used in hazardous locations to cost-savings for interfaces between industrial process control computers and subsystems.
ISA standards sometimes helps an entire industry in cost-saving and safety.
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