Standardization-The Part-Time Less-Understood Activity

Abstract

Standardization is an important discipline for any industrialized nation, more so for a developing country. The management of this activity rests between standards engineers and the experts in different fields who contribute to standardization through their part-time participation in their fields of specialization. The author discusses in this paper pitfalls, frustrations and hurdles faced by standards engineers in the management of standardization activity and suggests ways and means to overcome them-Ed.