Guide to Technical Standards
Define consistent procedures for testing, analyzing, appraising, verifying, or measuring. Establish uniform terms, abbreviations, symbols, marks, preferred numbers, and units. Points to
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Successful companies recognize standards as business tools that should be managed alongside quality, safety, intellectual property, and environmental policies. Standardization leads to lower costs by
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