The phrase "adopt a benchmark" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the implementation of a standard or reference point for measuring performance or quality in a specific context.
Example: "To improve our product development process, we decided to adopt a benchmark that aligns with industry best practices."
Alternatives: "establish a standard" or "set a reference point."
Currently, a common approach is to adopt a single benchmark period for bias correction, which is inadequate in deriving reliable future IDF curves.
The implications arising from the study are that EDP should adopt an internal benchmark management procedure in order to evaluate the relative position of each hydroelectric generating plant and to adopt managerial strategies designed to catch up with the frontier of "best practices".
Although many methods to assess it are available, these are mainly based on average data, tabular factors, and climate/lighting time series embedded in weather files used in detailed simulations and, in general, they adopt as a benchmark the performance of ideal control systems.
The committee dismissed the idea of adopting a new benchmark, like a commitment to pursue stimulus until the nation's economic output recovers from the recession.
Instead of designating anyone scoring above 65 — the passing grade — as "qualified," it adopted a second benchmark of 89 and decided to hire only from this "well qualified" category.
A.M.D. thinks that the industry should adopt a much more realistic benchmark for laptops — and then represent the results in a style that matches cellphones, iPods and cars.
Our optimal custom hedge could be adopted as a benchmark for the relative assessment of any risk management solution.
The results provide insight into the complex behaviour of dense suspensions and can be adopted as a benchmark for advanced modeling techniques based on CFD methods.
Based on post launch data analysis presented here, it was determined that this threshold cleanliness limit of 2.3 × 10−11 mmol ATP per 25 couldould be adopted as a benchmark for assessing spacecraft surface cleanliness.
The univariate model was adopted as a benchmark against which the more complex multivariate models were compared to see if they improve forecast accuracy and provide more insights into better ways of modeling this problem.
