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ANSI UL NEMA IEEE SA

American National Standards Institute Underwriters Laboratories
Founded, 1918 Birth, 1893
Founded, 1894
March 24, 1894 - conducts its first
test on non-combustible insulation
National Electrical Manufactures
Association
Organized, 1926 (September 1,
1926)
ROSSLYN, VIRGINIA
- Headquarters of NEMA
Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers
Standards Association
1918 - IEEE became a founding
member of ANSI
1963 – AIEE merged with
Institute of Radio Engineers
(IRE) to form IEEE

501 Hoes Lane, 3rd Floor,

Piscataway, NJ 08855
- Works with group such as ISO - Global safety science - organization developed
and IEC company to form the technical
- 79% active ISO technical - Largest and oldest standards for the
committee independent testing lab in manufacturing of
- 15% doon ay international the US electrical equipment and
Secretariat position - Test latest products and medical imaging
safety for safety before equipment
marketed - ANSI-accredited
- Nonprofit org funded by the Standards Developing
fees from charges in Organization made up of
manufacturers business leaders,
electrical experts,
engineers, scientists,
and technicians
- 325 member companies
- has published nearly
1,000 electrical and
medical imaging
standards and technical
whitepapers
- organized on September
1, 1926 by merging the
Electric Power Club and
the Associated
Manufacturers of
- IEEE Standards
Association Address
- It is a leading
consensus building
organization that
nurtures, develops and
advances global
technologies, through
IEEE.
- to facilitate standards
development and
standards related
collaboration.
- They promote
innovation, enable the
creation and expansion
of international
markets, and help
protect health and
public safety with
collaborative thought
leaders in more than
160 countries.

JOE BHATIA
- President and chief executive
officer of ANSI
- January 1, 2006 – present
PHIL PIQUEIRA
- ANSI chair of Board of Directors
- January 1, 2021 – present
ANSI MEMBERS - COGEI
COMPANY MEMBER
- corporation
- engaged in industrial or
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WILLIAM HENRY MERRILL, JR.
- Graduate of MIT
- Proposes an idea to create an
electrical testing laboratory
- Chicago Underwriters
Association and Western
Insurance Union provides
funding
- UL’s founder and named
manager
- later known as the Electrical
Bureau of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters
(EBNBFU)
HENRY CLAY EDDY
- named President
- retires in 1921 and becomes
Chairman of its Board of
Directors
- William Henry Merrill Jr.
becomes president
TERRENCE R. BRADY
- current president and CEO of
UL Research
JENNIFER F. SCANLON
- current President and CEO of
UL Solutions
DAVID G. STEEL
- current executive director of
UL Standards & Engagement
MEMBERSHIP
There is no clear distinction between
its associates. It has a broad range
from public to private institutions.
Electrical Supplies.
DEBRA PHILIPS
- Current president of
NEMA and CEO
ANNETTE CLAYTON
- Chairman, board of
directors
MEMBERSHIP
Application for membership in
the Association shall be made in
writing and signed by the
Board of Governors (BOG)
- Governs and direct
IEEE
- Manage key
operational aspects
JIM E. MATTHEWS
- IEEE SA president
YU YUAN
- IEEE SA president elect
DAVID LAW
- IEEE SA Standards
Board (SASB) Chair
TED BURSE
- SASB Vice chair
IEEE SA Standards Board
(SASB)
- It reports directly to
the BOG, and oversees
the IEEE standards
development process.
- supports the principles
and requirements of
the World Trade
Organization’s (WTO)
Decision on Principles
for the Development of
International
Standards, Guides and
Recommendations
MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES
AND BENEFITS
- The IEEE SA
Membership Program

- commercial enterprise
- Pinterest, Netflix, Adobe,
Philips, Pfizer
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBER
- not-for-profit
- ASCA, AHRI, AAFS, ASABE, ALI
GOVERNMENT MEMBER
- Authority or agency of the US
- NASA, FDA, USDA (United
Stated Department of
Agriculture, NREL, Department
of Defense
EDUCATIONAL MEMBER
- domestic, educational
institution
- Oregon State University,
Medical University of South
Carolina, University of
Washington, North Central
University
INTERNATIONAL MEMBER
- entity that has no legal
presence in the US
- APTIV, BELCO, ESKOM, BRP,
PRODOMAX
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It includes: - MSRCR applicant and shall state that it offers individuals and
1. Manufacturers meets the criteria for organizations
2. Service Companies membership eligibility set forth - IEEE SA members are
3. Retailers by NEMA. the driving force
4. Consumers behind the
5. Regulators What does it cost to become a development of
NEMA Member? standards
- base fee of $3,500 per - Membership also
year enables them to
contribute to and
NEMA Categories of influence
Membership
WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR IEEE
Full Membership SA MEMBERSHIP?
This consists of corporations, - Individuals, including
firms, or divisions of companies IEEE members of any grade
that manufactures and/or design - IEEE Society affiliates
electrical products. - non-IEEE members
- Developed and designed for As an IEEE SA member you or
sale and use in the United States your organization:
- Subject to Board of Governors • Gain firsthand insight
Approval into evolving and new
standards
Associate Membership • Get access to a network
This consists of firms or entities of technical experts, global
that do not qualify for full innovators and industry leaders
membership • Contribute to new
Specifically, it is open to: market opportunities
▪ Industrial Suppliers • Realize leadership
▪ Wholesale Trade member opportunities in IEEE standard
products committees
▪ Association
MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
OPTIONS:
1. IEEE SA Membership
for Individuals
2. IEEE SA Membership
for Organizations
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ENTITY MEMBERS:
1. Google
2. Microsoft Corporation
3. General Electric (GE)
4. Schneider Electric
5. Texas Instruments Inc.
ANSI MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS BENEFITS Benefits for being a Full --
- Access to membership forums Benefits of maintaining safety Member of NEMA
- Join policy advocacy groups standards and UL certification include - Developing product
- Exclusive discounts on sustainability and socially responsible Standards or facilitating
standards up to 20% business practices company participation
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS: For the stake holders, in the Standardization
o Access to panels and 1. They are the strategic process
workshops initiatives - Representation of the
o Active in creating 2. Informs the direction and industry in a national or
American National standards creating process state legislative or
Standards (ANS) For specifics, on Services UL helps regulatory process
o Legitimacy for stakeholders to: - Access to the Members-
belonging to a  improve their only Intelligence Portal
prestigious standards operations and value - Members are eligible to
organization chain participate in
o Full use of the ANSI  Industry standards customized market
member icon  advisory guides research programs
o Access to print and  best practices give - Participate in industry
electronic advertising businesses marketing efforts
in ANSI publications benchmarks for focused on expanding
performance market opportunities
Categories of services offered
include: - TACIV Benefits for being an Associate
Member of NEMA
1. Testing Information
- Access to the NEMA
2. Auditing Intelligence Portal
Exposure
3. Certification - All new associate
Members are announced
4. Inspection in electroindustry
magazine.
- Organization will also
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5. Validation & Verification be listed in the NEMA

Electrical Standards and
• UL certified – Product Guide
encompasses both Discounts
UL listed and UL - receive a five percent discount
on display advertisements in
recognized, it is also
electroindustry
much common.

• UL listed –for
products that are
approved to a
specified purpose

• UL recognized –
equipment for the
manufacturing
process that is
recognized by the UL

6. Advisory & Education

In UL Solutions

• Stakeholder focused.

UL Research Institutes

• Focused on human safety

risks.

UL Standards & engagement

Focused on the relationship between

stakeholders and their customer.
-- PHILIPPINE MEMBERSHIP Philippines NEMA Is the Philippines a
DTI-BPS Membership Status and Who participant of IEEE SA?
- UL and DTI-BPS Represents - No, because there is no
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- recently signed a - No, Philippines is not a member government agency or

collaboration and licensing
agreement through which the
two organizations agree to
share information and work
together
- responsible for the
development and promotion
of Philippines National
Standards (PNS) as well as
the nation’s participation in
the ISO and IEC
of NEMA, to be a member it must
be a company, corporation or
firm and must be USA-based
organizations included in the
list of participants in
Government Engagement
Program on Standards (GEPS).
However, the Philippines is
qualified to be a member of
IEEE SA.

TYPES OF ANSI STANDARDS - PPMP
1. Product/design-based
standards
- identify specific design or
technical characteristics of a
product.
2. Performance-based
standards
- test products by simulating
their performance under actual
service conditions.
3. Management system
standards
- Define and establish an org’s
quality policy and objectives
4. Personnel certification
standards
Specify the requirements that needs to
be fulfilled by a service provider
STANDARD FOR ELECTRICAL AND The Standards Development SOME OF IEEE-SA
ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS Process STANDARDS
UL 153 –PORTABLE ELECTRIC 1. Project initiation 1. IEEE C37.2
LUMINAIRES 2. Developing the Draft 2. National Electrical Safety
3. Balloting (gathering Code (NESC)
UL 197 – COMMERCIAL ELECTRICAL comments) 3. IEEE 603
COOKING APPLIANCES 4. Codes and Standards
committee approval
UL 796 – PRINTED WIRING BOARDS 5. Editing and Publication
UL 1598 – LUMINAIRES
UL 1995 – HEATING AND COOLING
EQUIPMENT
UL 8750 – LED
UL 8752 – OLED
UL 60335 – household and
appliances

STANDARDS FOR INDUSTRIAL

CONTROL EQUIPMENT

UL 508
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 UL 508 - Industrial Control

Equipment
 UL 508A - Industrial Control
Panels
 UL 508C - Power Conversion
Equipment

STANDARDS FOR WIRE AND

CABLES

UL 62 – FLEXIBLE CORDS AND

CABLES

UL 758 – APPLIANCE WIRING

MATERIAL

UL 817 – CORD SETS AND POWER

SUPPLY CORDS

UL 2558 – WIRE AND CABLE TEST

METHODS

CENELEC COPANT ACCSQ

Comité Européen de Normalisation Pan American Standards Commission Asean Consultative Committee
Electrotechnique on Standards and Quality

Merging of CENELCOM and CENEL,

CENELEC
Founded, 1973 Founded, July 12, 1949 Founded. 1967
COPANT Council, 24 to 27 April 1961
BRUSSELS, a region of Belgium 1964, the General Assembly
- CENELEC headquarters changed its name to the PAN
AMERICAN STANDARDS
COMMISSION under the short title of
COPANT

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL


- Develops European standards
to help build the European
internal market in goods and
services
DRESDEN AGREEMENT
Agreement between CENELEC and the
IEC in 1996.
- Common planning of new work
- Parallel voting
This agreement was superseded in 2016
by the Frankfurt agreement.
FRANKFURT AGREEMENT
- exchange of information, to
increase transparency
THREE EUROPEAN
STANDARDIZATION
ORGANIZATIONS:
CEN - European Committee for
Standardization
CENELEC - European Committee for
Electrotechnical Standardization
ETSI – European Telecommunications
Standards Institute
WOLFGANG NIEDZIELLA
- President
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- headquarters of COPANT
- civil non-profit association - ASEAN brings together
- comprises the National ten Southeast Asian
Standards Bodies (NSB) states – Brunei,
- total 32 active members and Cambodia, Indonesia,
10 adherent members Laos, Malaysia,
- reference for technical Myanmar, the
standardization and Philippines, Singapore,
conformity assessment for Thailand, and Vietnam –
the countries of the Americas into one organization
- sectoral body under the
purview of the ASEAN
Economic Ministers
- address the removal of
technical barriers to
trade (TBT) in order to
realize the goals of the
ASEAN Free Trade Area
(AFTA)
- to achieve its end-goal of
“One Standard, One
Test, Accepted
Everywhere.”
-
Scope of eliminating TBT
• Agro-Based Products
• Automotive
• Healthcare Products
• Rubber-Based product
• Electrical and Electronic
Equipment
• Building and
Construction Materials
• Wood-Based Products
• Digital Trade Standards
and Conformance
OSVALDO PETRONI (IRAM)
- President

FRÉDÉRIC VAILLANT
- Vice-President Technical
EWA ZIELIŃSKA
- Vice-President Policy
KARL-HEINZ MAYER
- Vice-President Finance
CENELEC COMMUNITIES
MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES:
MEMBERS
National Committees of the 27
European Union countries, United
Kingdom, the Republic of North
Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey plus
three countries of the European Free
Trade Association (Iceland, Norway and
Switzerland)
- 34 countries
AFFILIATES
Is to adopt the CENELEC catalogue of
standards and to bring a meaningful
contribution to the technical work
carried out in the CENELEC Technical
Committees.
- Albania
- Bosnia
- Montenegro
CSB OR COMPANION
STANDARDIZATION BODY
Interested NCs work closely with
CENELEC to achieve technical
harmonization and contribute to the
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MAURICIO CESPEDES (INTECO)
- Vice-President
JOSE DURAN ( IBNORCA)
- Treasurer
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
- constituted by the Officers
and a Director from each of
the ten standards bodies
which are active members of
COPANT
Total 32 active members and 10
adherent members
Three (3) Working Groups
1. WG1 – Working Group on
Standards and Mutual
Recognition Arrangements
(MRAS)
2. WG2 – Working Group on
Conformity Assessment
3. WG3 – Working Group on
Legal Metrology
Two (2) Sectoral Committees
1. JSCEEE – Joint Sectoral
Committee for Electrical and
Electronic Equipment
2. ACC – ASEAN Cosmetic
Committee
MEMBERS
All ten (10) countries included in
the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) are
member states of the ACCSQ.
Namely,
1. Brunei Darussalam
2. Cambodia
3. Indonesia
4. Lao PDR
5. Malaysia
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removal of technical barriers to trade 6. Myanmar

between their country and Europe. 7. Philippines
- Kazakhstan 8. Singapore
-Moldova 9. Thailand
-Morocco 10. Viet Nam
-Tunisia
-Ukraine
-Ivory coast
-Egypt
-Georgia
-Israel
-Jordan
CENELEC MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
- Improved performance, quality,
and reliability
- Better health and safety of your
workers and consumers
- Compatibility between different
products and components
- Access to customers across
Europe and around the world
- Access to the latest knowledge
and state-of-the-art solutions
- Reduced costs, less waste and
better efficiency
PHILIPPINE MEMBERSHIP PHILIPPINE MEMBERSHIP ACCSQ IN THE PHILIPPINES
- Is not included or member in - Is not included or member of
the three membership COPANT The Bureau of Philippine
categories of CENELEC Standards (BPS)
- national standards body
of the Philippines
Approved CENELEC Standards: STANDARDS FOR GENERAL PROGRAMS AND
EN 50173 series: Information ELECTROTECHNICAL FIELD ACTIVITIES
technology – Generic cabling systems - Technical committees (TC • Harmonization of Standards
151) – Electrotechnic and • Development of Mutual
EN 50174 series: Information Smart Grid Recognition Arrangements
technology: Cabling Installation - Technical committees (TC • Development of Regulatory
152) – Energy Efficiency and Regimes and Regulatory
EN 50600: Information technology: Renewable Energies Frameworks
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Data center facilities and infrastructures

PROJECTS: Six (6) Product Working
- EDUCATION Groups and Task Forces
- ENERGY established under PWGs
- GREEN BUILDING 1. RBPWG – Rubber-Based
- BUILDING CAPACITY Product Working Group
- INCREASING 2. PPWG – Pharmaceutical
PARTICIPATION IN Product Working Group
INTERNATIONAL WORK FOR 3. PFPWG – Prepared Foodstuff
TARGETED ECONOMIC Product Working Group
AREAS 4. MDPWG – Medical Devices
Product Working Group
5. TMHSPWG – Traditional
Medicines and Health
Supplements Product Working
Group
6. APWG – Automotive Product
Working Group