Published 2007
“…In the article on “Standardization” in the 14th edition of the
Encyclopædia Britannica,
Paul Gough Agnew, the long-time Secretary of the American Standards Association (ASA),
argued:
In the flow of products from farm, forest, mine, and sea through processing and
fabricating plants, and through wholesale and retail markets to the ultimate consumer,
most difficulties are met at the transition points––points at which the product passes
from department to department within a company, or is sold by one company to
another or to an individual. …”
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