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What is the Difference between Standards and Standardization?

8/21/2020

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  In one of our Online Courses, a participant recently posed the question, "​What is the Difference between Standards and Standardization"? To answer this question we need to first define each of the two terms.
What is a standard?
   A Standard is considered to be the best way or expectation of performing, building and producing a product, task, process or service. In short it is a rule or example of how to perform an activity correctly that establishes a clear expectation for those performing the activity.
What is Standardization?
   
Many processes depend heavily on standardization, which is the process of establishing, sharing, conforming and then improving standards.​
What is the Difference between Standards and Standardization?
   With these two terms now defined we can see clearly how they work together and how they are different.  A standard is considered to be the "best way" of performing something while standardization is the process by which the standard is established and improved upon.
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