Benefits of Standards

Why standards are important:

1. Standards set the recognised level of quality, and provides a yardstick against which products and practices could be evaluated.

2. In industry, standards streamline production, increase productivity and enhance efficiency.

3. Standards ultimately reduce costs for consumers.

4. Standards ensure that products or services perform the functions they are manufactured or provided for.

5. Standards facilitate interchangeability of products and services designed for the same purpose.

Advantages of standards

Standards serve as a guide for the production and provision of goods and services and provide the basis for trade transactions.

A number of advantages accrue from the implementation of standards.  These are:

1. Reduced costs;

2. Increased productivity;

3. Reduce unnecessary variety;

4. Ensure inter-changeability;

5. Minimise waste;

6. Ensuring safety; and quality assurance.

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