Brief Knowledge About DIN and ISO

Technical rules and regulations based on specific terms are referred as standardization. These technical rules are used by most of the industries. The DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V., German Institute for Standardization) is based in Berlin and administers about 29,500 DIN standards. The DIN updates the valid standards and has about 1,745 members relating to the different sectors of industry, science and services. There are more than 26,278 experts work for DIN, and the standards are developed by the working groups. Standards are drafted and availed for all the interested parties which are then published as valid standards.

The international standards are used in place of national standards to abridge the international movements of goods and to eliminate trade barriers. Thus, the quality standard is standardized at a great level for the movement of products in worldwide.

ISO is the "International Organization for Standardization" based in Geneva. The standardization is based on an international level, with more than 157 countries are members of the organization. All work results are published under the name of "ISO".

Many ISO standards are adopted as European standards, and there is acquired as the status of a DIN standard (DIN EN ISO), whereas some ISO standards are directly adopted as DIN standards (DIN ISO).

There are several standards such as ISO for international standard, DIN for German national standard, DIN ISO for German edition of an unaltered ISO standard, EN for European standard, EN ISO for European version of unchanged ISO standard, DIN EN for German edition of a European Standard, and DIN EN ISO for German edition of an EN ISO standard.