ANSI is a private organization that promotes business and operational standards to keep the US competitive. It has over a thousand members and a compliance process to maintain voluntary consensus standards. ANSI has around ten thousand standards and provisions for public review and comments.
Short for American National Standards Institute, ANSI helps advance the standardization process that began in the United States in 1918. Founded through the efforts of three government agencies and five different engineering associations, ANSI currently operates as a private organization supported by a nationwide network of public and private entities. Currently, the Institute has over a thousand members, with a membership base representing a diverse range of businesses, government agencies, and private organizations.
Since ANSI’s inception, the goal has been to establish business and operational standards that help keep the United States competitive in the global marketplace. This is achieved by promoting standards that are mutually beneficial to all organizations involved. One of the primary mechanisms for creating and maintaining the standards promoted by ANSI is a compliance process among members. Member organizations are actively engaged in maintaining the voluntary consensus standards established by ANSI and also cooperate in the periodic review and updating of those standards.
One of the key elements to ANSI’s success is through this compliance process. All member organizations are required to undergo a rigorous evaluation before gaining membership. This allows plenty of time for the identification of any conformance assessment issues that could prevent compliance and allows the business or other entity time to make changes that bring the entity into line with current standards required by ANSI.
Currently, ANSI has a list of standards in place that number around ten thousand. Many of these standards are intended to help create a sense of due process that will serve the needs of the American quality of life and to help American organizations based in global operations promote those standards to the highest degree possible. To ensure that the standards set by ANSI remain timely, provisions exist for public review and for the receipt of comments from the general public, as well as comments from member organizations.
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