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Difference Between Process and Product Standards With Example

Process standards define the procedures that should be followed when developing a product to ensure quality, reduce costs, and ensure safety. They come into play during product development and manufacturing. Product standards are applied to the final product and ensure safety, consistency, and compatibility. They are tested once a product is complete to verify it meets requirements. Both types of standards are important, with process standards focusing on the "how" and product standards focusing on the "what" of achieving a quality end product.

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Difference Between Process and Product Standards With Example

Process standards define the procedures that should be followed when developing a product to ensure quality, reduce costs, and ensure safety. They come into play during product development and manufacturing. Product standards are applied to the final product and ensure safety, consistency, and compatibility. They are tested once a product is complete to verify it meets requirements. Both types of standards are important, with process standards focusing on the "how" and product standards focusing on the "what" of achieving a quality end product.

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Difference between Process and Product Standards with


Example :

First an Introduction to Standards :


Standards are defined as documents that provide requirements, specifications,
guidelines, or characteristics that can be used consistently to ensure that materials,
products, processes, and services are fit for their purpose.

There are two main types of standards. 


The product standards  applied to the product, i.e. output of the process. 
The process standards  define the processes that should be followed during
development of product.

Use of Standards:
1) Standards are an important way of protecting consumers.
2) While consumer protection is often visible through government policies or
consumer protection organisations, standards create an extra protective
environment that lies behind the perception of most consumers.
3) This is particularly true where consumers have little or no choice in what they are
offered.

Why these Standards ?


Using an Example:
1) Unexpected releases of toxic, reactive, or flammable liquids and gases in processes
involving highly hazardous chemicals have been reported for many years.
2) Incidents continue to occur in various industries that use highly hazardous chemicals which
may be toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive, or may exhibit a combination of these
properties.
3) Regardless of the industry that uses these highly hazardous chemicals, there is a potential
for an accidental release any time they are not properly controlled. This, in turn, creates the
possibility of disaster.
4) So, On July 17, 1990, OSHA published in the Federal Register (55 FR 29150) a proposed
standard, -"Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals"-containing
requirements for the management of hazards associated with processes using highly
hazardous chemicals to help assure safe and healthful workplaces.

5) Like this standards are created across all industries to ensure safety of employees and
property and also to ensure minimal costs of development.

Example of Standard:
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Mechanical Integrity Standards


Can be defined as the management of critical process equipment to ensure it is
designed and installed correctly and that it is operated and maintained properly.
MI encompasses the activities necessary to ensure that equipment/assets are
designed, fabricated, installed, operated and maintained in a way that provides the
desired performance in a safe, environmentally protected, and reliable fashion.

Now on to Difference between Process and Product Standards:


1) What do they do?
Process standards:
Protects the owner from unnecessary costs in product repair, manufacturing rejects
etc. These standards ensure that employees building products or providing services
follow a specific procedure so that the results always meet the design quality
standards.

Example: Hiring a Contractor The process for hiring a contractor might start with a
request to hire a contractor (input), research into selecting the best contractor to hire
(gathering information about capabilities and collecting quotes), and signing an initial
check to perform a job (output).

Product standards:
Product standards are designed to ensure safety, compatibility and consistency. If a
product has met a standard, it usually means that it has passed tests that demonstrate
it complies with certain safety and quality requirements. It also means that it’s
compatible with existing products and infrastructure.
Example: the plug of an electrical item must fit into the local power sockets, or a piece
of printing paper should be the right size for standard printers.

2) When/where do they come in?


Process standards:
These process guidelines come in the form of instructions that describe each step and
explain how to differentiate a well-performed action from an error.
Product standards:
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Come in during testing of final product.

3) Their Importance:
Product standards:
Companies that comply with standards can have a competitive advantage, and it can
also be easier for them to enter new markets. When you’re exporting, your products
may have to meet certain standards to be allowed into the country. Standards differ
from one country to the next, and it’s important to understand your target market’s
restrictions and requirements before you start exporting.

Process standards:
Reduces cost of development of product and ensures quality of work.

4) Objective:
Process standards:
It tells us “How” to perform  to ensure good product.

Product standards:
It tells us “What” to achieve  to achieve desired product as per the requirements.

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