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By Henk J. de Vries
This examine fills a spot in standardization literature. it's the first educational research of nationwide standardization agencies. those companies exist in each kingdom and should be inner most or governmental companies. the 1st nationwide standardization th agencies have been based within the early many years of the 20 century and have been aimed toward rationalizing business creation. Their mode of operation displays the experience of co operation on the nationwide point and - within the telecommunications and electrotechnical box - on the intemationallevel besides. Now, although, the scene has replaced, with businesses working across the world. criteria for items, methods, and companies are an important components in opting for luck or failure on a fiercely aggressive marketplace, specifically whilst useful compatibility is a prerequisite, as is the case in laptop and telecommunications applied sciences. to that end, particularly homogeneous wishes of members in standardization have given option to conflicting pursuits. This activates a dialogue concerning the conventional function of nationwide standardization firms. They more and more depend upon their particular hyperlinks to the overseas standardization corporations ISO and IEC, and, relating to Europe, the nearby agencies CEN and CENELEC. in lots of circumstances, formal standardization businesses usually are not the most obvious our bodies for constructing criteria to satisfy company wishes. is that this inevitable or might they increase functionality and regain their marketplace percentage? Henk de Vries solutions this query opposed to the history of present advancements in standardization on the overseas, eu, and nationwide levels.
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21 Most of the data in this subsection come from Simons & De Vries (1997). 20 25 - Complying with standards may determine the difference between delivering and not delivering: do products fit with other products, do they meet compulsory safety requirements, do they meet criteria generally accepted in the market, do they meet procurement standards prescribed by the govemment? - The use of standards can be the most efficient way to meet legal requirements. 7). - The company is not an island. In order to play a role in a supply chain, it is necessary to agree on standards concerning, for instance, product properties, quality issues, environmental performance, transport characteristics, (electronic) communication, and payment.
Nevertheless, in the eighties, this was common practice in many NNI WGs. Experience has shown that it is more efficient to divide writing tasks among several committee members, and discuss their contributions in meetings. The most efficient way is to have just one editor, with a clear job description, agreed upon by the committee. With "volunteers" as writers it is difficult to manage progress - their employer has other priorities than the committee. Therefore, some committees have a professional (paid) writer of standards.
22 - specialization in industry; for many subjects, only a few experts in the world are able to provide input; - the increase in R&D expenditures, due to which companies co-operate in R&D to share costs and, as part of the project, agree on standards. Thorough studies on forms of co-operation in standardization include Shaping Standardization (Egyedi, 1996), and Coordinating Technology (Schmidt & Werle, 1998). Both focus on telecommunication. 4 Networks of standards developing organizations'S Many standards are developed with the involvement of several SDOs.