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Standards are strategic allies for small and medium enterprises, as they bring together proven results from technological research and development, and are a recognized tool for the transfer of knowledge.
Benefits
- Increase of your customer satisfaction;
- Equal opportunities in relation to large companies;
- Access to new customers and supply chains;
- Decrease of your production and consumption costs;
- Improvement of your integral management by achieving greater productivity and efficiency
Products made according to standards are more suitable, safer, better quality and include information to guide the consumer, ensuring their compatibility and the availability of spare parts that extend their life cycle.
Benefits
- Standards promote the quality of products and services, reducing costs and making them safer and more efficient;
- Improve business management and reputation;
- Allow access to new markets and customers;
- Address your needs through new standards driven from production;
- Help to protect workers from risks inherent to their activity.
Standards protect us all and are used everywhere.
They serve as a compliance base for organizations to increase confidence with their valued audiences, about their products, processes and services. Improving customer satisfaction is currently a business priority.
Consumers obtain peace of mind and safety, as standards protect us from hazards that may affect both health and property, as well as the environment (fire, explosions, chemicals, radiation and electricity).
Standards provide specifications to ensure that products and services will work the way you expect them to.
Benefits
- Standards give access to reliable, safe and environmentally friendly products and services;
- Encourage commercial loyalty;
- Increase confidence in the use of products, systems and services by ensuring they work as expected;
- Ensure compatibility and interchangeability between products offered by different suppliers.
Each productive sector has its own reality and needs, and there are standards for each of them that respond to those demands.
Business chambers can offer their members a set of valuable documents as a solution to their requirements, while improving processes, productivity and competitiveness of companies in their sector.
The standards thus strengthen the institutional image of the chambers and their reputation in the eyes of their members, the government and the trade unions.
Benefits
- Standards help to diversify the offer to the members;
- Increase the interest of potential members by giving them access to the world of standardization;
- Allow you to reflect the interests of those you represent by participating in the development of standards;
- Support sector policies by improving quality and productivity.
The standards combine the international best practices and serve as a vehicle for the dissemination of innovative technologies. They provide students with competitive tools that they can use in their professional activities, and also provide teachers with resources to enrich the transfer of knowledge.
Benefits
- Getting familiar with the standards that you will use in your professional activity;
- Standards collaborate with the training of future professionals;
- Improvement of educational management through specific management system standards;
- Incorporation of the principles of balanced participation and consensus decision-making.
Standards and public policies often have similar objectives: to establish safety requirements, to improve competitiveness and economic efficiency, and to facilitate trade.
In so doing, standards are helpful tools for the development of public policy, since they allow authorities to comply with the obligations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries and reduce related technical barriers.
Benefits
- They improve the management and reputation of the public sectors;
- Facilitate the implementation of technical regulations;
- Contribute as one of the pillars of the national quality infrastructure;
- Collaborate with institutional transparency;
- Support public policies.
The standards contribute to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by providing guidelines for best practice management for each discipline in an equitable, transparent, competitive and cost-effective manner.
Benefits
- Standards improve your management and public image;
- They provide for transparent and balanced administration;
- Enhance your practices in fields such as safety, health, environment, social responsibility or gender equality;
- Facilitate actions related to the 17 SDG.
