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Company Member Forum
The Company Member Forum (CMF) provides a venue for ANSI members representing
the broad spectrum of U.S. industry to come together to discuss national,
regional and global standards and conformity assessment issues and collectively
shape and influence U.S. policy in the domestic and international arena. Many
ANSI corporate members cite this cross-industry networking as one of the
primary benefits of membership, which often results in alliances between
different Industries and cooperative partnering to leverage resources.
As a membership Forum of ANSI, the functions of the ANSI Company Member Forum
include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Provide a forum for discussion and networking by a defined interest category;
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Provide a mechanism for "early warning" of relevant trends;
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Address issues of interest primarily to their membership and galvanize
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implementation at their constituent level;
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Identify broader-based issues to be addressed by an identified governance body;
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Assume an active role in ANSI membership recruitment and retention; and
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Serve as the one place within ANSI where participants can represent their own
organization's interests.
Some of the broad issues that the Company Member Forum works to advance
include:
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expanding markets and exports of U.S. technology
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promoting global standards over national or regional standards
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eliminating non-tariff technical barriers to trade such as duplicative testing
requirements
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reducing the number of marks of conformity
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supporting the supplier’s declaration of conformity while preserving
third-party certification for those suppliers who choose to use it
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promoting voluntary standards over government regulations
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opposing management system standards that do not add value to products or end
users or that mandate third party verification of conformance, and
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supporting greater efficiencies in the international standards processes of ISO
and IEC.
Each company member of ANSI automatically becomes a member of the Forum and is
entitled to receive documents and send representatives to meetings. The Company
Member Forum shall consist of one representative from each company member.
 For a complete list
of ANSI company members,
click here.
Forum officers include:
CMF Chair
Dr. John D. Kulick
Manager, U.S. Standardization & Regulation
Siemens
CMF Vice Chairs
Dr. W. Martin Strauss
representing Monsanto
Dr. Richard J. Forselius, PE
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a United Technologies Co.
All ANSI company members are invited to actively participate in the CMF. For a
copy of the CMF’s Operating Guidelines,
click here
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The CMF has established industry sector caucuses (e.g., electrical, information
technology & multi-media, telecommunications, transportation & heavy equipment)
which convene between CMF meetings to discuss sectoral as well as horizontal
standardization and conformity assessment issues.
Recognizing that U.S. industry has many cross-sector issues that are global in
scope, the CMF has developed a new Emerging Issues Process to promote
cross-sector involvement. For more information on the EIP,
click here.
The CMF EIP is an opportunity for members to work together to develop new ways
to identify, prioritize, leverage and integrate U.S. resources for new
standards related issues as they evolve. The EIP’s aim is to assure an
opportunity for appropriate stakeholders to have a voice early in the process
as an issue comes into the professional domain instead of only reacting to it
once it has moved out of that domain, e.g., into a regulatory one.
Currently, the CMF is recruiting emerging issue team members to help look at the
following developing issues as part of the CMF EIP.
For more information about ANSI, the Company Member Forum and/or the Emerging
Issues Process, including how to get involved, please contact the CMF Secretary
and ANSI’s Vice President, Publications Sales and Membership, George Gulla by e-mail at
ggulla@ansi.org or by telephone at 1.212.642.4945
For a schedule of upcoming meetings,
click here.
[Note: Please enter either Company Member Forum or CMF
in the Key Word search field in the ANSI Online calendar of events] The Company
Member Forum meets two times a year, typically in the Spring and the Fall (in
conjunction with World Standards Week). Any Company Member of ANSI is welcome
to attend.
The ANSI Company Member Forum
Document Library contains information available only to
registered CMF members. It requires a username and password to use. To access
the document library, click
here.
For more
information about document access,
click here.
If you are not already a member of ANSI, find out more about the
benefits of ANSI membership.
For a membership application form,
click here or
Join Online now.
George Gulla
Vice President, Publications Sales and Membership
Tel: 212.642.4945
Fax: 212.398.0023
ggulla@ansi.org
Carol Klunder
Membership Coordinator
Tel: 212.642.4926
Fax: 212.840.2298
cklunder@ansi.org
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