(ISO: Geneva) -- ISO has just launched a compilation on CD-ROM of its entire collection of Technical Product Specification (TPS) standards, which are essential to manufacturing on a global basis, and provide a common language for product and contract specification, and other communication along global supply chains.

“It is hard to overstate the importance of the standards included on this collection,” says Henrik S. Nielsen, Ph.D., chair of ISO technical committee ISO/TC 213, which developed 106 of the 242 standards on the CD-ROM. “They quite simply form the base that supports the entire global manufacturing industry and enables worldwide communication of the geometrical requirements for manufactured goods.”

The "Technical Product Specification" (TPS) collection on CD-ROM is the latest compilation in the series of ISO Standards Collections, published as handbooks or on electronic media. The CD-ROM allows the 242 standards to be accessed easily and rapidly, and puts this library of standards into a conveniently transportable format.

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