IHS Standards Expert: Operations and Executive Management

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For those in engineering management - directing engineering, MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) or quality - IHS Standards Experts provides a strategic tool to improve quality assurance, utilization of best practices, profit margins and risk management, across the enterprise.

The problems you may face, without a trusted source for standards management and ways to keep up with the rapid pace of standards revisions, include:

• Increased costs and decreased ROI
• Risks associated with non-compliance to industry standards and best practices
• Missed market readiness and lost opportunities for increased market share
• Lack of availability of correct standards & reliable processes for standards management
• Inconsistency in standards used causing decreased productivity & lack of quality assurance
• Risk to departmental budget & project(s) cost control due to changes from product design, regulations (HS&E), and legal contract requirements
• Insufficient asset utilization threatening production uptime
• Missed project deadlines increasing time to market

IHS Standards Expert was designed specifically to empower everyone who touches standards in your organization to act as a cohesive team.

How it Works

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Your teams will find it's easier than ever to create libraries of standards documents for a group, or a project. They can easily designate who can access each set of standards, and who needs to be alerted if one is updated. Alerts for teams are easily customized and managed to pinpoint certain documents and certain users as desired.

It's also easier now for team members to order and track the occasional standard that falls outside your regular subscription, straight from our online shop. Such orders can be routed to a "Gatekeeper" for approval, helping you control costs against your company's individual document purchasing budget.

Advantages of IHS Standards Expert as a strategic management tool

1. Single Source - staff will have electronic access to the most comprehensive database of worldwide industry standards and military documents so that time-consuming and costly negotiations with multiple standards publishers is avoided.
2. Subscription Management - offers flexibility in how required standards are accessed, helping your business control administrative costs and gain economies of scale by avoiding the added expense of individual standards purchases for the same document across the organization by multiple purchasers. Industry best practices are more likely to be followed with a common frame of standards reference used – driving innovative design technology with increased competitive advantage.
3. On Demand Access - immediacy of online access provides productivity savings by keeping staff focused on project tasks rather than researching standards. Electronic access also eliminates the costs (i.e. rework, wrong parts specified for MRO, etc.) associated with staff using the wrong standards.
4. Outsource Partner - IHS manages license agreement negotiation, data acquisition, data capture, QA/Control, software development, hosting, and system support – carrying the burden of cost for your organization. You'll experience reduced acquisition costs and management costs for standards, while ensuring the most current versions are automatically available to all users.
5. Flexible Research Tools - provides staff ability to easily locate and navigate required standards from more than 1 million active and historical records from over 370 Standards Developing Organizations and the U.S. Government, avoiding the frustration of trying to locate documents with only partial information or misplaced documents.
6. Staff Productivity - worldwide access to a single system that standardizes design processes across the organization so engineers can spend their time engineering and conforming to quality initiatives.
7. Daily Updates - database is updated daily with new/modified content from SDOs (standards developing organizations) and U.S. Government – ensuring currency and accuracy of the information provided so that staff is working with the most current information and not using documents that have been unknowingly revised. Document changes are reported through email notification.
8. Risk Management - a tool that provides desktop access to the correct standards and change notifications for accurate information - helping staff stay in compliance with Health, Safety & Environmental regulations and increased quality assurance.
9. Change Notifications - alerts to document changes are reported through email notification so that changes to standards that impact the design process are reflected quickly with less impact to the business – avoiding the risks associated with non-compliance, and keeping up automatically with the fast pace of evolving standards.
10. Version Control - eliminates the possibility of staff designing/building to the wrong standards, which is offered in conjunction with IHS Reference Linking Solutions.
11. Favorites & Alerts - allows staff to create and maintain custom lists of standards organized as needed and receive email notification when documents update, which helps comply with ISO documentation requirements.
12. Usage Reports - provides reporting on system usage for process control and compliance.
13. Subject Searching and Alerts - Search the title, abstract and/or full text of a document to identify standards containing any relevant word or text string. Review standards dealing with a specific subject that will be applied to ensure compliance when exporting products to a specific country.