Formed in the United States in 1925, the Insulated Cables Engineers Association, Inc. (ICEA), is a not-for profit professional association. In conjunction with other organizations like

NEMA The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) is the largest trade association of electrical equipment manufacturers in the United States. Founded in 1926, it advocates for the industry, and publishes standards for electrical product ...

and

ANSI The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organi ...

, it produces

technical standard A technical standard is an established norm or requirement for a repeatable technical task which is applied to a common and repeated use of rules, conditions, guidelines or characteristics for products or related processes and production methods, ...

s for the manufacture and use of

power cable A power cable is an electrical cable, an assembly of one or more electrical conductors, usually held together with an overall sheath. The assembly is used for transmission of electrical power. Power cables may be installed as permanent wiring w ...

, data, and control

cable Cable may refer to: Mechanical * Nautical cable, an assembly of three or more ropes woven against the weave of the ropes, rendering it virtually waterproof * Wire rope, a type of rope that consists of several strands of metal wire laid into a hel ...

. It was founded as the ''Insulated Power Cables Engineers Association'', but changed names to reflect their full range of activities. William A. Thue (ed.), '' Electrical Power Cable Engineering, Third Edition'' CRC Press, 2011 pages 203-204

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ICEA HomepageIHS Database of ICEA documents
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