The Standards Engineeer - Glossary

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Company Standard

Definition (1)
Identification

Company Standard

Source

Düsterbeck, B., Hesser,W., Inklaar, A. & Vischer, J. (1995). Company Standardization. In W. Hesser & A. Inklaar (Eds.). An introduction to standards and standardization (pp. 99-138). Berlin, Beuth Verlag.

Description

"Standard developed within company or other organization for its own needs."

Definition (2)
Identification

Company Standard

Source

Henk de Vries, 1999. Standards for the Nation: Analysis of National Standardization Organizations. Kluver Academic Publishers, 1999.

Description

Company standardization includes developing standards for use within the company and developing standards to be used in the company's relations with its direct business partners.

Developing does not mean that each company standard has to be designed from scratch. A company standard may have the form of the following:

  • A reference to one or more external standards officially adopted by the company

  • A company modification of an external standard.

  • A subset of an external standard (i.e. a description of the company's choice of competing possibilities offered in an external standard, or a subset of the topics covered in the external standard).

  • A standard reproduced from (parts of) other external documents (i.e., supplier's documents).

  • A self-writtem standard.

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