The Internet keeps growing as a valuable tool for the standards community. Now available online are updated versions of the various procedures maintained by the Executive Standards Council of the American National Standards Institute. Standards users can view the progression of such documents at www.ansi.org/public/library/revise/procedure_updates.html. Engineers also can now browse and obtain electronic editions of codes and standards of ASME International (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers). From www.asme.org/codes/ they can buy and download critical code information that once took hours or days to receive. In addition, the Society of Automotive Engineers has posted its SAE J1939 Standards Collection and companion documents on its website at www.sae.org/products/ j1939.htm. J1939 harmonizes the way multiple microprocessor-based electronic control units communicate in autos. Another global organization has launched a program to make the Web even more useful as a standards medium. The International Federation of Standards Users (IFAN) has posted a 17-question survey form at www.nkn.nl/IFAN_quest.htm. The group urges anyone in industry or commerce who is concerned with standards to fill out the questionnaire online. IFAN will evaluate results and present them on its website. That, IFAN hopes, will give all standards developing bodies a better profile of the latest requirements of standards' users.
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Thanks to embedded electronics, medical devices are getting smaller and smarter than ever. Pacemakers and implantable defibrillators are now able to call physicians. MRIs, CT scanners, and ultrasound machines are gaining mobility. And the venerable Band-Aid may soon be able to detect illnesses ranging from fevers to heart arrhythmias. On February 21, join Design News senior editor Charles Murray for a wide-ranging discussion, "Embedded Angles for Medical Products," which will explore the latest developments in medical electronics. The discussion will examine advances in medical device technology and offer an inside look at the embedded electronics behind it.
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