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RMSS: About Us
The RMSS and the road ahead

In the future, more than ever before, the emphasis will be on quality and efficiency at the right price/cost. As regards standardisation, the question is no longer: Does it conform to a standard? but rather: Does a particular “standard” fit the standardisation goals and objectives of your environment?. In other words, does the standard benefit the specific environment in which a particular product is to function, or in which a particular service is to be delivered.

Quality will always be linked to compliance with proper standards and specifications. Standardisation should support this by carefully assisting with the establishment of the right standards for a particular environment.

Similarly, with the high cost of developing standards, the emphasis in the future will be to “standardise” primarily not by way of developing new standards, but by the selective use and application of the “right” standards. In an era of information overload, this is a challenge that becomes progressively more significant by the day.

As is the case with all business activity, survival in the future will depend on improved quality, cost efficiency, optimisation of processes, and satisfied clients. The RMSS, as a standardisation coordinating body, believes that standardisation holds the key to many of these challenges.

In the past the RMSS's main emphasis was the facilitation of “expensive” standards development projects. This will no longer be the case in the future, which is why the RMSS is currently restructuring its focus by investigating ways of how to continue to supply a standardisation service to its clients, but with sound policy on the demands for an efficient business operation in the above context.