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

OSHA
http://www.osha.gov/

IHEA
http://www.ihea.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