Associations and Affiliations
The importance of industry associations to bring together companies working in a similar environment and with shared objectives is recognised by West Control Solutions. Such groups provide a number of services to their members including PR, lobbying and collaboration. Importantly trade associations often work to ensure standardisation is achieved across the service or product providing confidence to its members of product and service quality.
West Control Solutions is a member of a number of associations, demonstrating its suitability through delivering high quality, relevant products and also its commitment to serving members of the group with excellent customer service. For more information on quality please visit the quality management processes section of the website.
As West Control Solutions is committed to delivering products with exceptional quality, it undertakes various laboratory testing and assessments of its products to ensure they meet the relevant regional standards. Below are listed the key associations that West Control Solutions regularly works with for approvals. For individual product certification and safety approval details please visit the specific product page.
To provide the highest level of usability and flexibility for its portfolio of products, West Control Solutions has also worked closely with providers of industry standards such as communications protocols to attain compatibility.
Please see below for a full list of the associations and affiliations that West Control Solutions is connected to.
Industry Associations
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
http://www.ansi.org/
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
http://www.asme.org/
SPI - The Society of the Plastics Industry
http://www.plasticsindustry.org
Association of High Technology Distribution
http://www.ahtd.org
Affiliations – Industry Standards
Canadian Standards Organization (CSA)
http://www.csa.ca/Default.asp?language=english
Conformite Europeene
International Organization for Standardization
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage
FM Global Inc.
http://www.fmglobal.com
Underwriters Laboratories Inc (UL).
http://www.ul.com/
DeviceNet
http://www.odva.org/
MODBUS
http://www.modbus-ida.org
Profibus
http://www.profibus.com/rpa/80