Use of SAE Standards
Use of SAE Standards
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I've been around SAE standards for years, but never gave any thought as to the procedure by which an organization could ethically and lawfully label a product as meeting a given standard. Let's say you make brake hoses and want to be compliant with the SAE brake hose spec (J 1401). I assume that you would find a certified test lab and have the performance tests in the standard run. If all the tests passed, I assume you file test results away for future inspection and then can market the hose with the SAE J1401 designation applied to it. Is this how it works?





RE: Use of SAE Standards
There are some, such as UL, that require products to be only tested by them to be certified.
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That may, or may not, be a problem, but only if the standard is sufficiently vague that a due-diligence effort at testing and validation might still result in non-compliance when tested elsewhere. That's a fundamental problem even with stuff that;s ostensibly traceable to NIST standards.
Even then, validity in testing is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. Most military contracts require environmental qualification, but they're unwilling to pay for what it would REALLY cost to validate system functionality during any single environmental test, so even a pass might mean little in the real world.
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RE: Use of SAE Standards
Admittedly 1401 in particular does include the loads and times.
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Greg Locock
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