Deutsches Institut für Normung

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DIN headquarters is a modern 7-story office building with their logo on the front
Head office of the German Institute for Standardization in Berlin-Tiergarten

Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN; in

e.V.) headquartered in Berlin. There are currently around thirty thousand DIN Standards
, covering nearly every field of technology.

History

Founded in 1917 as the Normenausschuß der deutschen Industrie (NADI, "Standardisation Committee of German Industry"), the NADI was renamed Deutscher Normenausschuß (DNA, "German Standardisation Committee") in 1926 to reflect that the organization now dealt with standardization issues in many fields; viz., not just for industrial products. In 1975 it was renamed again to Deutsches Institut für Normung, or 'DIN' and is recognised by the German government as the official national-standards body, representing German interests at the international and European levels.

The

tapered pins
) in 1918. Many people still mistakenly associate DIN with the old DI-Norm naming convention.

One of the earliest, and probably the best known, is

mini-DIN connectors for electronics, and the DIN rail
.

CC-BY-SA 4.0) [...] to implement an open standardisation process".[1]

DIN standard designation

The designation of a DIN standard shows its origin (# denotes a number):

  • DIN # is used for German standards with primarily domestic significance or designed as a first step toward international status. E DIN # is a draft standard and DIN V # is a preliminary standard.
  • DIN EN # is used for the German edition of European standards.
  • DIN ISO # is used for the German edition of ISO standards.
  • DIN EN ISO # is used if the standard has also been adopted as a European standard.

Examples of DIN standards

See also

External links

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