Relevance: What are standards for?

In essence, standards provide codified knowledge regarding materials, technologies, products and services, components, test methods, processes and much more.

They are the result of an agreement among the interested and concerned parties (stakeholders) and incorporate the  distilled knowledge of experts in their subject matter, contributing to:

  • ensuring that products and services are safe, reliable and of good quality
  • the adoption of good practices by organizations, (e.g. for organizing and managing processes)

Standards are an essential element of the infrastructure of industrial societies