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How To: Define a Standard
The word “standard” is commonly used in daily language, so much so that people do not always reflect on its definition. Even in the standards-development community, the term can function in casual conversation as a catch-all for several types of… more
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Quality

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Products, Standards, and Certification
If the scope of your standard specification — existing or proposed — covers a product, consider certification for it. Certification, a kind of conformity assessment, seeks to ensure that any given product meets the standard’s performance… more
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Metals & Materials, Safety, Environment, Transportation, Chemicals, Energy, Medical, Quality, Consumer Products, Construction

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Getting Positive Results from Negative Votes
Your approach to submitting or resolving negative votes is a critical step in the process of shaping standards and is the single most important element of the ASTM International standards development process. Without negative votes and their proper… more
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About Voting
As an ASTM International member, your participation is key to the ASTM standards development process, which includes voting to express your endorsement, disapproval and opinion via ballots. It’s easy enough to cast your vote on a standards action… more
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What’s the Word?
ASTM’s Blue Book, Form and Style for ASTM Standards states that all technical standards should include a terminology section. The requirement advises you to “keep it simple” and use a dictionary definition when possible, but putting a small glossary… more
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Online Work Item Collaboration Areas
“My ASTM” — your gateway to participating online as an ASTM International member — now makes it easier to work with your task group in developing draft standards before they go to ballot. The tool is the ASTM task group collaboration area, which is… more
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What Kind of Standard Is It, Anyway?
Writing a new standard presents many challenges, and sometimes, just figuring out which type of standard it should be is Challenge #1. There are six different kinds of ASTM standards… which one are you writing? To help organize your thinking about… more
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Consider Holding a Symposium or Workshop
Does your ASTM committee want to: Gather information for a possible new area of work or a standard already underway? Exchange technical information? Encourage new members and networking? Provide a forum for technical discussion? If you’ve answered… more
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