Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)

The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)  develops standards related to component marking, data modeling, color coding and packaging materials. Companies with products and services that range from the smallest electronic component to the most complex systems used by defense, space and consumer product industry use EIA standards.

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredits EIA standards. The EIA standards and technology department oversees current and future standards activity and ensures that each standard follows the due process and procedural guidelines established by EIA.

IHS is the exclusive distributor for EIS standards, which are contained in more than 35 documents and cover topics such as:

• Standard colors for color identification and coding
• Product life cycle data model
• International and national quality standards index
• Tunneling component network protocols over internet protocol channels

IHS offers more than 35 standards documents from the EIA, addressing areas such as component marking, data modeling, color coding and packaging materials.