How can standardization benefit us?
In the field of more generalized design, standardization of more essential parts will be carried as nearly as possible to perfection. Most of our industrial progress up to the present time has been rendered possible through standardization. The trouble is that standardization has not been carried far enough. There are too many arbitrary sizes and varieties of what is functionally the same commodity. Take a simple product such as soap. Chemically there are only a small number of separate basic formulas for soap. The number of brands of soap on the market, however, runs into the thousands. Not only has the achievement of standardization made possible our quantity production methods, but also the lack of standardization has at the same time been in no small part responsible for our low load factors. In many fields, particularly in those of clothing and automobiles, the lack of standardization has been promoted as a highly remunerative racket — the style racket. If styles can be manipulat
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