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Any organization that owns and uses a variety of equipment must find ways to identify it and track its movement. A new standard and a proposed new standard being developed by ASTM International Committee E53 on Property Management Systems focus on these aspects of equipment ownership. The new ASTM standard, E2606 , Practice for Receipt Notification as a Result of Tangible Property Movement, and…
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ASTM International Committee E18 on Sensory Evaluation of Materials and Products is working on a proposed new standard that will provide sensory professionals with guidelines for developing, selecting and using scales in the context of sensory experiments and consumer research. WK19660 , Guide for Developing and Using Appropriate Scales, is being developed by Subcommittee E18.04 on Fundamentals…
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ASTM Committee F10 on Livestock, Meat and Poultry Evaluation Systems has approved a new standard, F2717 , Guide for the Development of Independent Third-Party Verification. The standard, which was developed by Subcommittee F10.20 on Device Performance Criteria, provides an internationally recognized set of guidelines for companies that test the accuracy of livestock, meat and poultry evaluation…
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All interested parties are invited to participate in a new task group on instrument test results for sensory evaluation of consumer products, including food and cosmetics. The new task group will be part of ASTM International Committee E18 on Sensory Evaluation and will meet during the E18 meetings at April committee week in Anaheim, Calif. “Our goal at this meeting will be to recruit members,…
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ASTM International Committee E53 on Property Management Systems has begun developing new standards to address the beginning of a challenging new era for asset managers – the era of lost laptops. Understanding how organizations reached this point – where entities are losing an increasing number of sensitive assets such as computers, some with sensitive information stored in the memory devices – is…
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Committee F10 on Livestock, Meat, and Poultry Evaluation Systems invites all interested parties to join in the standards developing activities of a new task group on radio frequency identification (RFID). The new task group, which is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee F10.20 on Device Performance Criteria, will have its first meeting Nov. 1 at the November Committee Week in Tampa, Fla. The…
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ASTM International Committee E18 on Sensory Evaluation has been working on developing a series of widely used, fundamental discrimination tests into ASTM International standards. Some of these tests that are now approved standards include E2263 , Standard Test Method for Paired Preference Test, E 2139, Test Method for Same-Different Test, and E 1885 , Test Method for Sensory Analysis-Triangle…
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Asset budgets are often the third largest line item (after personnel and information technology) for many organizations. Because of this, asset managers in both the public and private sectors need to present compelling arguments and demonstrate strategic value to core missions in framing asset decisions. With this in mind, ASTM International Committee E53 on Property Management Systems has more…
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Anyone who has ever lost time searching for a set of keys that simply are not where they’re supposed to be will appreciate the larger-scale, though similar concept behind E 2499 , Standard Practice for Classification of Equipment Physical Location Information, a new standard developed by ASTM International Committee E 53 on Property Management Systems. The goal of the standard, which is under the…
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ASTM International standards will play an important role in the National Property Management Associations National Education Seminar, to be held from Aug. 25-Sept. 1, in Minneapolis, Minn. Standards under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee E53 on Property Management Systems will be the subject of a dedicated track at NES that will include several individual seminars, as well as breakout…