Industrial Electronics Society Standards Technical Committee Delivers Seminars on Industrial Standards [Society News]

Industrial Robotics Standards

A good standard under the proper market conditions can help to increase competition, reduce the cost of products and services, break trade barriers, and expand markets. The phenomenal success of the Personal Computer (PC) market is the best example of good architecture and interface standards. An additional benefit is the countless lives which have been saved and accidents which have been preve...

The IEEE Computer Society Computer Standards Committee and the Microprocessor Standards

The projects being carried out by language mnemonics, a high-level To contact the Computer Society's subcommittees for the Computer language project which is attempting Standards Committee chairman, Society's Microprocessor Standards to make existing languages more write Robert G. Stewart, Chairman, Subcommittee arose out of the frussuitable for use with microprocessors, IEEE Computer Society S...

Production Management Standards: Industrial Need

Formalizing and Operationalizing Industrial Standards

Industrial standards establish technical criteria for various engineering artifacts, materials, or services, with a view to ensuring their functionality, safety, and reliability. We develop a methodology and tools to systematically formalize such standards, in particular their domain specific calculation methods, in order to support the automatic verification of functional properties for concre...

Was Pre-Industrial Society Malthusian

The fundamental assumption of the Malthusian model of pre-industrial society is that reproductive success increased with income. However, the direct evidence for this proposition for any pre-industrial society is surprisingly weak. Indeed most tests of this assumption for pre-industrial England, France and Japan have failed to detect any link between either mortality and real incomes or fertili...