ASD-STAN

ASD-STAN is an association in Brussels, Belgium, that creates and maintains standards for the European aerospace industry. It is an associated body of CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, for aerospace standards.

The association develops, publishes and maintains its own standards. These are published online as ASD-STAN prEN standards and technical reports. Every ASD-STAN prEN standard is later released by CEN as a European Norm. The association has published more than 2,600 European Norms this way, which it says is about 12 percent of the European Norms available. It has also published 79 technical reports.

ASD-STAN also acts as a distributor. Through its online shop it sells SAE ITC E&A standards, formerly known as ADS standards, and independently produced DIN EN standards.

The standards are written by hundreds of experts from the European aerospace industry. They work in 38 working groups. The association says it is always trying to shorten the time it takes to develop a standard, to keep up with what industry needs.

Work is split into technical domains. They cover programme management and system engineering, electrical, mechanical, materials (metallic and non-metallic), quality and certification, digital projects and cabin. A further domain called DECADE-X is also listed.

There are three kinds of membership. Promoting members are national or trade associations from the European Union, EFTA states and the United Kingdom, plus European agencies. Regular members are those associations and industrial companies with a registered office in those countries. Associate members can be any association or company, wherever it is based. Each type has different voting rights in the General Assembly and different access to the Technical Authority and the Board of Directors. Experts from non-member organisations can also join working groups through independent expert contracts.

The association runs a newsletter and publication notice so that readers can hear about new standards and changes that affect their business.

Services

• Aerospace standards development
• ASD-STAN prEN standards
• Technical reports
• SAE ITC E&A standards distribution
• DIN EN standards distribution
• Standards shop
• Membership
• Independent expert contracts
• Newsletter and publication notice