Development of standards material: A discussion of the responsibility of AIEE committees in aiding the development of electrical standards

FOR an industry that manufactures and uses as large a variety of apparatus as the electrical industry, the problem of the development of standards is a tremendously important one. The purposes of standards are 2-fold: In the first place, they aid in the manufacture of products that are more uniform; in the second place, they form a basis that enables purchasers to orjtain bids for new apparatus on a comparable basis.