0　Introduction

A person who engages in a task for standardization is required to have experience, achievement, capability and knowledge for the standardization, such as contribution, communication, negotiation, leadership, presentation, technology, etc. Today standardization has been an important strategy for an organization, corporation and nation. Therefore, human resource for standardization and education for standardization become essential for them.

In order to collect appropriate human resources for actual tasks for standardization and to carry out effective education of standardization, it becomes indispensable

• to clarify the tasks required for standardization, and
• to clarify the skills required for the tasks.

Those clarifications are to develop a skill standard itself: Skill standard - Evaluation for skills of human resource required for standardization.

There have been developed in Japan two other skill standards,

• Skill standard - Evaluation for skills of human resource required for intellectual property, and
• Skill standard - Evaluation for skills of human resource required for information technology.

They are actually used in a number of corporations.

The "Skill standard - Evaluation for skills of human resource required for standardization" will make it possible or feasible for a person or corporation to

• comprehend and describe existing skill of standardization human resource,
• set a target of education for standardization human resource,
• evaluate an effect of standardization education,
• collect standardization human resources,
• re-allocate standardization human resource,
• develop an education program or material for standardization human resource.

Accordingly the Skill standard will make it possible or feasible for a nation to strengthen its global competitiveness in the international industry.

Kanazawa Institute of Technology established a project for developing the Skill standard, in response to the commission from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan. The project began its activities in June 2012 and finished them in Feb. 2013, and developed documents of the Skill standard were submitted to the METI. After March 2013, following-up activities of the project have been taken by SG-SSS (Study Group on Skill Standard for Standardization) in Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan.