Video#2.2: NC

Speakers: Tony Capel, IEC DMT Convenor, etc., Comgate Engineering Ltd.. Julie Gordon, Director, Strategic Initiatives, BSI. Lars Ihler, Section Manager, NEK

Julie Gordon: Smart standards will offer us the opportunity to create new business models to better serve those customers who are asking for things beyond PDF. I think it will also enable us to innovate more and better address their needs. And I'm really hoping that by working in a harmonized collaborative way, we're going to be able to have operational efficiencies at every level, whether that's International law at the National Committee. </CUT> Because I think the huge amount of duplicative uh work that's taking place right now is, is not beneficial for us as a, as an ecosystem. Um That's the, I think a big win that we can achieve.</CUT>

Lars Ihler: </CUT> I am sure the national committees are very eager and interested in getting started with the Smart and Smart Standards.</CUT> I think they will be in a completely new position to benefit from connecting the the standard contents with other online contents or applications to increase the end user value and data efficiency in their daily operations. </CUT> When adapting or conforming to the standards requirements, keywords may be innovation, creativity and willingness to try out new ideas and solutions, which would certainly arise from the introduction of smart.</CUT>

Tony Capel: Smart standards will offer national committees the ability to enhance the services they provide to their clients. </CUT> The demonstrations at this A GM show how smart standards can be provisioned using cloud services, allowing global provisioning and technical support.</CUT> This will open the path for all national committees no matter the size to participate and to offer these enhanced services. It will be essential that that national committee continue their business and client relationships and ready them for these this new range of services. </CUT> In addition to client communications, it will be also be important to encourage their technical mirror committees and experts to identify the local needs. So this local knowledge can be included as a smart standards development proceeds.</CUT>

Julie Gordon: </CUT> I think our advice um for national committees and affiliates is to,</CUT> To embrace the opportunities that smart will bring, we know that customers have been asking us to improve the usability and of, of our offering and that PDF didn't meet many customers needs anymore. And I think this opportunity is a great way for us to, to start to address their needs and make our product relevant for the future. </CUT> And um yeah, to do that, we need to adopt new ways of, of working.</CUT>

Tony Capel: Smart standards will allow industry to continue to innovate and offer competitive products and services which are more than ever relying on increased technical sophistication. </CUT> But end users and regulators have growing concerns because of this and are demanding increased compliance to more standards to not only ensure safety but also address security efficiency and other growing societal requirements.</CUT> Standards and conformity assessment systems have traditionally filled this gap between manufacturers and users and smart standards will allow them to continue this role as the complexity of products and services increases smart standards will allow industry to more easily communicate their compliance to standards and reassure users and regulators that the products and services continue to meet their needs.

Lars Ihler: My first advice to get ready for smart standards is to get an understanding of the word smart. And what it means that the standard is getting machine readable and even machine interpretable. </CUT> Uh the word smart and the smart standard in particular may have a different meaning from one end user to another one and maybe even from a one national committee to another one.</CUT> Then my next advice is to make sure you do not also mix our internal IC and NC digital transformation ver with our standard users, digital transformation vers or processes. </CUT> Uh These two processes may well go hand in hand, but they are certainly different from each other.</CUT> My last advice is to discuss these topics with the end users to get a better understanding and view and their view on how they see this development.