Title :
Standards-a user´s perspective
Author_Institution :
BP Int. Ltd., Sunbury-on-Thames, UK
Abstract :
There are currently major changes underway within the process industries on how standards are viewed. There is a trend away from in-house company standards towards industry-wide standards. At the same time the standards themselves are taking a "prescriptive" rather than "descriptive" approach. Within Europe standards are being used to enforce legislation aimed at opening the market. This paper looks at a number of issues that surround the current standards environment and what it means to the end user.
Keywords :
standardisation; in-house company standards; industry-wide standards; legislation; prescriptive standards; process industries;
Conference_Titel :
Control '96, UKACC International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 427)
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-668-7
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19960757