ASTM’s consensus process, honed over the course of its 102-year history, offers extraordinary benefits to industries seeking common ground among producers, users, and general interest stakeholders. In this issue, read about the power of the ASTM process to level an uneven playing field between printer cartridge OEMs and remanufacturers, to bring together opposing opinions in the artists’ paint industry, and to serve as an outlet for trade associations’ desires to get their industries’ standards efficiently written.