Appendix: Standards

Standards are indispensable to manufacturing industry. Not only do they allow interchangeability or interoperability between different manufacturers’ products, but they also represent a distillation of knowledge about practical aspects of technology − how to make measurements, what tests to use, what dimensions to specify and so on. Each standard is the result of considerable work on the part of a collection of experts in that particular field and is therefore authoritative; notwithstanding which, any standard in a fast-changing area will be subject to revision and amendment as the technology progresses.

This appendix lists a few of the more relevant British and international standards, both those which have been referenced ...

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