Creating industrial standards
- Harmonizing procedures for industrial processes
- Requiring standardization systems for production
Description
Creating industrial standards involves developing and implementing agreed-upon technical specifications, guidelines, or criteria to ensure the quality, safety, compatibility, and efficiency of products and processes. This strategy addresses issues of inconsistency, interoperability, and safety risks by providing clear benchmarks for industry participants. Standardization facilitates trade, reduces production costs, enhances consumer confidence, and streamlines regulatory compliance, thereby remedying fragmentation and inefficiencies within and across industrial sectors.
Claim
Standard setting is a political activity -- one of choice and not the market mechanism. It concerns all of society, so to delegate this role to just one sector of society -- industry -- with its own vested interests, does nto serve society as a whole.
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SDG
Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
- Industry » Industry
- Industry » Production
- Research, standards » Quality unification
- Research, standards » Standards
- Cybernetics » Cybernetics
- Cybernetics » Systems
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Language
English
1A4N
W8790
DOCID
13387900
D7NID
198132
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Last update
Dec 3, 2024