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Quality
and
Standards
in
Electronics
In 1981, the DTI formed a committee called 'FOCUS' to examine areas
where standardization could benefit the competitiveness of British manu-
facturers and users of high technology, for instance in local area network
standardization. Owing to the wider international interest concerning quality
assurance, the ISO then set up a Study Group 1983 to produce an interna-
tional set of standards which all countries could use. This initiative, the
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI), ensured that products from different
manufacturers and different countries could exchange data and interwork in
certain defined areas. In the