Companies that participate actively in standards development activities reduce costs, increase efficiencies, facilitate and maintain market access, and gain a more competitive advantage than those who do not participate.

Companies who are most successful in their sectors recognize that standards and conformance are business tools that should be managed right alongside their quality, safety, intellectual property, and environmental policies. In addition, standardization and conformity assessment activities lead to lower costs by reducing redundancy, minimizing errors, and reducing time to market.

And demonstrating compliance to standards helps your products, services and personnel to cross borders, ensuring that products manufactured in one country can be sold and used in another. Furthermore, your business can— not only reduce the economic risk of research and development activities by participating in standardization—you can also lower your overall R&D costs by relying on previously standardized technologies and terminologies.

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