Looking for help with the Industry Standards you use in your business? Every day Document Center answers questions on Industry Standards that help people like you make good purchasing decisions. And what we notice is that we are one of the very few places you can find a Standards Expert anymore.
I can remember when I first took over Document Center in the 1980’s, it was not unusual to find customers with large standards libraries. And there might be several people in the organization who were tasked with the oversight of the collection. A company would have a legacy of standards expertise within the organization.
But the other day, one of my friends in the Dept. of Defense noted that one of the results of Mil Spec reform was a loss of the “institutional memory” of how things should be done in the organization with regards to the use of standards. And I think this is true in many companies who rely on outsourced standards collection services as well.
Successful use of standards is not only the adherence to an existing list of standards in your collection. It involves understanding what standards are being released in your area of interest, understanding the changes as new revisions are released, and keeping up with the evolving global regulatory environment.
Document Center provides a broad range of services to make sure you use standards in the best way possible to get the most out of your standards program. When you contact us, you can ask us questions about government and industry standards and know that we have the expertise to provide you with an answer.
And Document Center has our Standards Audit service which gives you a list of the items you need to avoid simple errors brought about by the use of incomplete or obsolete documents. We monitor Industry Standards with both our regular Notification service and our Premium StandardsAlert and StandardsExpress services. These programs notify you when changes to your standards collection occur, so you know how the documents you use are changing. And we offer a current awareness program StandardsInformer to help you keep up with the emerging developments and documents in your field.
The intelligent use of standards is more than just having documents available to your staff. Document Center is here to answer your questions about standards and to make sure that the benefits of standardization are maximized within your company.
Search for standards and more at our webstore, www.document-center.com. Or contact us by phone (650-591-7600), fax (650-591-7617) or email (info@document-center.com). We’re the go-to location for questions on standards!
