Seventh Annual ISO/TC133 International Conference Held In South Africa

July 19, 2011, the seventh ISO/TC133 "international" standard The international annual meeting of the Organizing Committee of the organization / clothing size series and Code Committee was held in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. The conference was hosted by the South African National Bureau of standards (SABS). The Lizbeth Boloka, South Africa's National Bureau of standards, served as the chairman of the conference. China's Bosideng Limited by Share Ltd Wang Min served as the Secretary of the conference. 32 representatives from 6 formal member countries (South Africa, China, Japan, South Korea, France, Sweden) and 1 observer countries (Kenya) attended the meeting. 　　

The Chinese delegation is headed by the director of the Shanghai Institute of clothing research, the senior engineer of Xu Jian, Secretary General of the national garment Standardization Technical Committee, Deputy Secretary General of the China clothing association, Zhang Guangmin, deputy head of the professorship high tech worker, and Dr. Wang Qingmiao, director of the Limited by Share Ltd group technical center of YOUNGOR group. Wei Hong, deputy investigator / Senior Engineer of the two national standard management committee, attended the meeting with the delegation, giving specific coordination and guidance to the meeting. Members of the delegation include assistant director of Industry Department of China Garment Association, engineer Du Yanbing, deputy director of Standardization Office of Shanghai Clothing Research Institute, Qin Wei, standardization office of Shanghai Clothing Research Institute, Yang Xiuyue, Wacoal (Shanghai) R & D Center Co., Ltd., Director / Director Xu Zhaohui, and technology director, Xu Jingyun, Bosideng. finite Cao Zonghua, manager and engineer of quality management department. 　　

At the meeting, representatives of the participating countries discussed the work plan of ISO/TC133 and the revision of the ISO standard, and finally formed 19 resolutions.

1, the establishment of a new working group 1 (WG1) "anthropometry", China as the convenor of the project, Xu Jian, director of the Shanghai Clothing Research Institute as the leader of the working group, is responsible for the revision of international standard ISO 8559.

2, the delegates voted unanimously against TC133 being classified as TC38 at the present stage. Finally, it will be decided by the progress of the work items, and will be reconsidered by the internal vote of the technical committee or at the annual meeting after TC133.

3, in view of the need for broadening the work items, it is proposed to the member states that the scope of TC133 work should be expanded after the agreement of the technical authority (TMB), including the "clothing size measurement method".

4, South Korea and South Africa respectively set up working group 2 (WG2) "digital fitting" and working group (WG4) "clothing measurement".

5, the participants agreed to set up the new working group 3 (WG3) "measurement identification", which will formulate new work item proposal (NWIP) based on the standards of China, Korea, Japan, South Africa and France, in order to replace ISO 3636, ISO 3637, ISO 3638, ISO 4515, ISO 4516, ISO 4517 and ISO 4518. Agree with the TC133 Secretariat to nominate South Africa's National Bureau of standards Lizbeth Boloka as chairman of ISO/TC133 Technical Committee. The next ISO/TC133 annual meeting will be held in September 2012. The annual meeting will be held in Shanghai, China or Seoul, Korea.

ISO/TC133 (International Organization for Standardization / clothing size series and Code Committee) was established in 1969 to be responsible for international standardization of garment size series and codes based on anthropometric measurements. The ISO/TC133 secretariat was originally located in South Africa and its representative body is South Africa's National Bureau of standards (SABS). But in the past twenty years, the Committee has been in a state of suspension (stand-by) and has no work items. Since 2007, the National Standardization Management Committee, the China Textile Industry Association, the China clothing association, the Shanghai Clothing Research Institute (the Secretariat of the national garment Standardization Technical Committee) and Bosideng Limited company With the joint efforts of other units, after consultations with the South African Secretariat many times, in July 2010, at the sixth ISO/TC133 international standard meeting, the meeting reached a resolution of the conference of the ISO/TC133 Secretariat jointly sponsored by the South African Standard Bureau and the China National Standardization Management Committee. At present, the Committee has 20 formal member states (Participating Country) and 20 observer countries (Observing country), which issued 14 items of ISO standard and 1 technical reports. 　　

The South Africa Conference is China's first meeting as a ISO/TC133 Secretariat. It is also China's first "leading role" to promote the successful convening of the ISO/TC133 conference and the start of various work. It marks an important step towards the internationalization of China's garment standardization. The level of participation in international standardization reflects, to a certain extent, the technological strength and industrial strength of a country in this field. The constant promotion of the international standardization of clothing will play an important role in enhancing the international competitiveness of our clothing products and enhancing the international discourse power.