IS 9000 : Part 32 : 2006 /IEC 60068-4 : 1987 Basic Environmental Testing Procedures for Electronic and Electrical Items Part 32 Information for Specification Writers - Test Summaries

National Foreword

This Indian Standard (Part 32) which is identical with IEC 60068-4 (1987) ?Basic environmental testing procedures - Part 4: Information for specification writers - Test summaries? (duly incorporatingAmendment 1 issued in 1992 and Amendment 2 issued in 1994) issued by the InternationalElectrotechnical Commission (IEC) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on therecommendation of the Environmental Testing Procedures Sectional Committee and approval of theElectronics and Information Technology Division Council.

The text of the IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standardwithout deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards.Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ?International Standard? appear referring to this standard, they shouldbe read as ?Indian Standard?.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the currentpractice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.

In this adopted standard, reference appears to IEC 60068 series of standards for which Indian StandardsIS 9000 and IS 9001 series also exist. These corresponding Indian Standards wherever available are tobe substituted in their places of IEC Standards.

Only the English language text in the International Standard has been retained while adopting it in thisIndian Standard, and as such the page numbers given here are not the same as in IEC Publication.