Union technique de l'électricité et de la communication

The UTE - Union Technique de l' Electricité (Association of Electrical Engineering) is a French standardization body. This charitable organization is a founding member of CENELEC and IEC.

Tasks

The UTE is comparable to the German Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (DKE ). Just as with this the name was extended to Union technique de l' Electricité et de la communication (Association of Electrical Engineering and Communications Technology ) to refer to the extended range of tasks without having changed the abbreviation. The approximately 3,000 experts working in the fields of electronics, electrical engineering, automation and communication (telephony and data transmission ).

History

The story goes back to the first International Electricity Exhibition in Paris in 1881, the ibid. took place together with the International Electricity Congress. Subsequently, the Société Internationale des Electriciens was founded in 1883. 1904 this is mandated to establish an international Commission for the Standardization of standards. This was done on June 17, 1906 in London as the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

As a result of the establishment of the IEC, the establishment of a French standard control panel (Système Français de Normalisation ) is necessary. A number of partner organizations to set up in the summer of 1906, the Comité Français Electrotechnical Standardization (CEF - French Commission for Electrical ). ( SPIE - Professional Association of the Electrical Industry ) beginning 1907, the associations of the Syndicat Professionnel des Industries Electriques meet and the Syndicat Professionnel des Usines d' Electricité ( Professional Association of Electricity ) to create a common umbrella association - this union of the Syndicat de l' Electricité (USE - Association Association of electricity / Electronics general Association ) was founded on April 9, 1907 in Nanterre. This is one of the founding date of the UTE, because then the USE is recognized on 16 July 1907 as the national standards body and establishes a standardization office in Paris (comparable to the establishment of a standards committee at the German Institute for Standardization ).

1947, the USE is renamed UTE, Union Technique de l' Electricité (Association of Electrical Engineering).