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The American National Standards Institute - ANSI - facilitates and corrdinates the U.S. voluntary standards and conformity assessment system.
ANSI Introduction
ANSI's mission is to enhance the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.
American National Standards ANS Introduction
An American National Standard (ANS) is a voluntary consensus standard that is developed in accordance with the ANSI Essential Requirements: Due process requirements for American National Standards and subject to ANSI’s neutral oversight and approval.
ANSI FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - Standards FAQs
The tabs below contain frequently asked questions on standards, conformance, and ANSI’s activities in the U.S. and international systems. Browse the collections of questions for quick …
ANSI Resource Center
ANSI's Resource Center organizes every document, form, publication, subscription, organizational policy, and other useful link and resource from ansi.org, providing a comprehensive library of materials for the ANSI community to browse and access.
ANSI's Roles
ANSI’s diverse roles and activities help to ensure the continued strength and impact of innovative U.S. standards and conformity assessment work domestically, regionally, and globally.
To help make standards development in the U.S. an equitable and open process that serves both industry and the public good, ANSI accredits standards developing organizations (SDOs) against a set of criteria to assure openness, balance, due process, and consensus in standards development – ANSI’s Essential Requirements.
American National Standards Resources
The American National Standards section of ANSI's Resource Center provides easy access to every document, form, publication, policy, or other useful link or resource from the ANS section of the ANSI.org website.
Dec 2, 2010 · An ANS is a document that has been sponsored by an ANSI-accredited SDO and then approved by ANSI’s Board of Standards Review as meeting certain criteria regarding due process in its development.
ANSI Essential Requirements
The ANSI Essential Requirements govern the processes by which standards developers are accredited by ANSI and American National Standards are developed.