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• GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES FOR EDUCATION
  ABOUT STANDARDIZATION
• - NIST -
• Gaithersburg, 21 and 22/02/2008

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Who is ABNT?

• Created in 1940 more than 67 years of expertise
  on standardization
• Private, non-profit organization
• Officially recognized by the Brazilian Government
  as the National Standardization Body
• Founding member of ISO, as well as COPANT and AMN
  
• IEC member since ABNTs establishment
• Responsible for the development of the Brazilian
  National Standards (voluntary and
  consensus-based)
• Signatory of the WTO/TBT Agreement Code of Good
  Practices for Standardization

Brasília
Bahia
Minas Gerais
São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Paraná
Rio Grande do Sul
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ABNT Objectives

• Management of Brazilian standards development
  process
• Promotion, dissemination and divulgation of
  standardization
• Representation of Brazil at Regional and
  International Organizations for Standardization
• Cooperation with similar organizations
• Certification of products, services and systems

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Brazilian Standardization System

• CONMETRO Coordination/Supervision of national
  policy on metrology, standardization and
  industrial quality

• CONMETRO

• CBN

• ABNT

• Regulation Bodies

• CBN standardization promotion, articulation
  between governmental and civil society interests

• TECHNICAL REGULATION

• BRAZILIAN
• STANDARDS

• INMETRO responsible for the Executive
  Secretariat of CONMETRO and compatibilization of
  governmental interest (Government Technical
  Regulations Health, Safety, Environment and
  Consumers Protection)

• ABNT The National Standards Body - Private
  Voluntary Standards all sectors

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ABNT in figures
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ABNT Technical Committees
CB-01 - Mining and Metallurgy CB-14
Information and Documentation CB-02 - Civil
Construction CB-15 - Furniture CB-03 -
Electricity CB-16 - Transportation and
Traffic CB-04 - Machines and Mech. Equip. CB-17
- Textiles CB-05 - Automotive CB-18 - Cement
and Concrete CB-06 - Subway and Railroad CB-19
- Refractory CB-07 - Ship. and Marine Tech.
CB-20 - Nuclear Energy CB-08 - Aeronautics and
Space CB-21 - Computer and Data Processing
CB-09 - Fuels CB-22 - Thermal
Insulation CB-10 - Chemistry CB-23 -
Packaging CB-11 - Shoes and Leather CB-24 -
Fire Safety CB-12 - Agriculture
CB-25 - Quality CB-13 Beverages CB- 26 -
Odontolog.-Medical-Clinical Equip.
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ABNT Technical Committees
ONS-27 - Graphic Technology CB- 28 - Steel
CB-29 Pulp and Paper CB-30 - Alimentary
Technology CB-31 Wood CB-32 - Individual
Protection Equip. CB-33 - Jew., Gems and Prec.
Metals ONS-34 Petroleum CB-35 - Aluminum CB-36
- Clinical Analysis and Diagnostic in Vitro
CB-37 - Glasses CB-38 - Environmental
Management CB-39 - Road Implements CB-40 -
Accessibility CB-41 - Iron Ores CB-42 - Welding
CB-43 Corrosion CB-44 Cooper CB-45
Tires CB-46 - Clean rooms CB-47 - Crisotile
Asbestos CB-48 - Road Machinery CB-49 - Optic and
Optical Instruments CB-50 - Offshore Equipment
for the natural gas industry ONS-51- Plastic
Packaging and arrangement CB-52 - Coffee CB-53 -
Standardization in Metrology CB-54 -
Tourism CB-55 - Air Conditioning CB-56 - Meat and
Milk CB-57 - Refrigeration, Air conditioning,
Ventilation and heating ONS-58 Non destructive
testing CB-59 - Foundry
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Perspectives and Strategies for Education about
Standardization - Brazil

• ABNT Strategies
• Increase Awareness
• ABNT promoted and take part of several events and
  sectorial fairs due to spread the understanting
  of standardization.

Events
Fair
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Perspectives and Strategies for Education about
Standardization - Brazil

• EXPONORMA
• October, 29th to 31st, 2007
• EXPOSITION
• Covering a indoor area of 1100 m² with 31 stands
  from different associations who work as ABNT TC
  secretaries, showing various products made
  accordable with technical standards.
• CONGRESS
• 500 participants discussing standardization,
  metrology and conformity assessment during two
  days.
• PARALLEL EVENTS
• Speechers from working groups of TCs
• Meeting between ABNT/TCs chairs
• Technical Presentations
• Standards First day
• Inmetros meeting
• RESULTS
• 1800 people in all event

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Perspectives and Strategies for Education about
Standardization - Brazil

• ABNT Strategies
• Capacity Building

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Perspectives and Strategies for Education about
Standardization - Brazil

• Courses Areas
• Quality management systems
• Environmental management systems
• Greenhouse gases
• Information and documentation
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Food safety management systems
• Identification for transportation, handling,
  movement and storage of materials
• Information technology
• Security techniques - Information security
  management systems
• Acessibility to buildings, equipament and the
  urban environment
• Social responsibility
• Textiles - Care labelling code using symbols
• Rainwater - Catchment of roofs in urban areas for
  non-potable purposes
• Telecommunications cabling for commercial
  buildings

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Perspectives and Strategies for Education about
Standardization - Brazil

• ABNT Strategies
• Education for Standartization
• Research found 2 courses about standardization
• Federal Technological Education Mastership
  (CEFET-MG)
• Standardization technology and industrial
  quality created in 1995, its a course with
  2415 hours during 4 years, that offers 35 place
  per each six consecutive months. Broaches since
  guidelines to standardization process until
  management integrated systems planning and
  implementation (quality, ambiental, security and
  health ocupational, and social responsability).
• National Service of Industrial Learning (SENAI -
  SC)
• Standardization basic course Professional
  qualification that aims to orient about standards
  elaboration process, with 10 hour classes.

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Perspectives and Strategies for Education about
Standardization - Brazil

• ABNT Strategies
• Education for Standartization
• Since 2002, ABNT with a partnership jointine
  SENAI and Brazilian Goverment, who invested
  U700,000, a new program to human resources
  empowerment was made.
• Purpose increase the companies involvement on
  standardization effords, mainly small bussiness,
  and strutured a qualification program, using
  firsty pilot courses experiences as basis.
• Result expected
• Use technical standards to lead their
  activities
• Work out in new standards development
• Spread standardization process and technical
  standards matters.

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Perspectives and Strategies for Education about
Standardization - Brazil
Course Plan 60 hours
Module 1 24 h Basic Industrial Technology 6
h Basic notions on Standardization 6h Basic
notions of metrology 6h Basic notions of
conformity assessment 6h
Module 2 15 h Principles to technical standards
structure 15 h
Module 3 21 h Technical sntandards writing and
presentation 21 h
Professional certificate
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Perspectives and Strategies for Education about
Standardization - Brazil

• Main aspects
• Developed with didatic support and validation of
  the material
• Experimental course for 19 persons
• One movie used like a sensibilization tool
• Sensibilization workshop
• Feasibility study about a postgraduation
  courses
• Development of technical multiplyers
• Business plan elaboration until June, 2008.

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Perspectives and Strategies for Education about
Standardization - Brazil

• Conclusion
• Facilitate the acess to standards leads people to
  a bigger demand of standards knowledge (SEBRAE
  and CONFEA)
• Theres a great challenge to increase awareness
• Our proposition is pioneer in Brazil and the
  methodology used in this development with the
  implantation plan could contribute significantly
  to standardization education.

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Perspectives and Strategies for Education about
Standardization - Brazil

• THANK YOU!
• Carlos Santos Amorim Junior
• E-mail csamorim_at_abnt.org.br

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