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Standards and standardization are the foundation stones on which our indutrial society was built. Without standards to regulate the daily exchange of good and ervice the whole structure would crumble: Standard to ensure interchangeability of parts, standards for safety, standards for health care, standards for performance, standard for date marking and so on, the list is endless.

Standards play an umportant role in trade and commerce within and between all countries of the world. These standards are developed by many bodies at sub-national, national, regional and international levels on a significant number of which prepare their documents by consensus process.

Standardization was viewed initially as being limited to engineering industries; nothing could be further from the truth. Engineering industries, particularly those involved with high volume production were amongst the first to recognize the value of standardization, but it is certainly not their exclusive domain. Agriculture, commerce, transport, building, food, forestry, textile, chemicals, cience, education and more in the present time the service industry - e.g. hospital, hotels are all areas where standardization can be ued a a management tool to improve productivity.