Internationally recognised manufacturing standards

• Global corporations are expected to meet international manufacturing standards in productivity and quality
• Internationally recognised manufacturing standards

  • Provide opportunities for innovation
  • Ease communication and synchronisation within the global community
  • Save businesses time and money
  • Create a sense of competition
  • Ensure the environment is protected
  • Ensure that employees are protected
• Internationally recognised manufacturing standards

  Provide opportunities for innovation
• Standards change to allow for the development of improved technology and methods
• Internationally recognised manufacturing standards

  Ease communication and synchronisation within the global community
• Common language


  A common ‘language’ for products, procedures and processes
• Internationally recognised manufacturing standards

  Save businesses time and money
• Standards cut production costs
• Standards drive economies of scale through the use of common parts and specifications
• Internationally recognised manufacturing standards

  Create a sense of competition
• Businesses know products made to international standards have more credibility and expectations of quality
• Australian exporters already using international standards have a head start if they move into overseas markets
• Strict standards can dictate a business's success or failure
• Manufacturers are required to meet emissions standards


  Ensure the environment is protected
• Health and safety standards

  Help reduce accidents in the workplace