The benefits and disadvantages of global standars in the design of equipment

The benefit comes from the fact that most people doesn't know all the uses, potential and cares a equipment has, the standarization will help to create a simple course that will allow to use better and make it exists longer.

The fact that there are literally million of every type of equipment, can help to industries, to adecuate their elements, because their can get at a lower cost, to apply for other uses.

The lower cost of reparation.

The integration of the parts for other uses, when the equipment is useless; the devices will be designed not only to last, else to easily take their parts and integrate to other type equipment, making that equipment cheaper, avoiding misuse of material, avoiding wastage in recycling it, etc.

The disadvantages are obvious, any improvement can take decades to be implements, or simple will not be done, considering the fact that each equipment is developed integrally with all the other equipment humanity using, losing the flexibility to has a different product each year, in sacrifice to optimize the materials, cost and reusability.

None decision is perfect, any decision implies some benefits and some disadvantages, that is unevitable.