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SETTING THE STANDARD
von Hofe (Germany) as Chair of CEN/TC 121 signed an historic agreement between
the three organisations for cooperation in international standards. In doing so, CEN and
IIW transferred responsibility for many standardisation projects to ISO, establishing a
mechanism for sharing documents in development and for the allocation of work to one
of the three organisations.
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At the 2006 Annual Assembly in Quebec, C-II proposed the
initiative of transferring the responsibility for all filler metals as Route II drafts to ISO/TC
44/SC3 which was rejected by the SC-STAND, a decision upheld by IIW’s TMB which
considered that each standard should be treated separately.
41
Ziegenfuss was also opposed
to such a move since it represented another means of limiting IIW’s authority in the ISO
standards arena.
42
Eventually, the responsibility for filler metals involving classification was
transferred to ISO/TC 44/SC3 only where justified through SC-STAND, a condition that
CEN/TC 121 was also in agreement with.
43
All other filler metals standards remained the
responsibility of SC-STAND.
The first Technical Report to be published by
IIW was ISO TR 22824
Welding Consumables –
Prediction and measurement of Ferrite Number (FN)
in specifications – A position statement of the experts
of IIW Commission IX
in 2004. C-III, on the other hand,
was one of the largest producers of welding standards
and over the period 1984-1998 had produced a
total of 17 draft standards for approval.
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In one
of the significant initiatives regarding solid state
welding standards, C-III, chaired by Prof. Kin-
ichi Matsuyama, developed the ISO 25239 international series of friction stir
welding standards for welding of aluminium and aluminium alloys, starting
in 2004 after friction stir welding became part of C-III activities. The work
was allocated to a sub-commission of Commission III, SC 3B under the
leadership of Mr David Bolser (USA) who had already done a considerable
amount of the work required for AWS and through his association and work
with Boeing in the development of friction stir welding standards.
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Work progressed very quickly due to the depth of experience within SC 3B, including
input from Mr David Nicholas and Dr Wayne Thomas of TWI, and the first draft of the five-
part series was introduced at the Prague meeting in 2005. The first hurdle to be met was one
of patent rights expressed by Japan, which tested the resourcefulness of Ziegenfuss as IIW
Standards Officer in the progression of these standards through the respective procedures to
the DIS and final draft international standard (FDIS) stages of balloting and voting. No formal
procedures or policies had been developed through ISO to account for the consideration of
Kin-ichi Matsuyama