IHS Standards Expert: Standards-Using Roles

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For manufacturing engineers and quality professionals, IHS Standards Expert gives you everything you need to research and verify that your project meets the industry standards and best practices as captured in your project design requirements or internal specifications.

We've streamlined the tasks of performing new searches and navigating a single standard to find exactly the information you need. You'll get complete information on each standard, with revision status and reference links, so you can be confident you've found the right one. Full-text searching is more integrated and intuitive, helping you get straight to the right details in seconds.

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IHS Standards Expert monitors your frequently used standards automatically for changes. It also provides redlined versions for some standards so you can easily find all the changes from version to version. In this ASTM Redline Standard preview, you can see how easy it can be to find the revised sections.

Our customers told us that 74% use some of the same documents over and over. So we've made it easier than ever to return to frequently used documents, or receive alerts about a change. Sharing commonly used documents with your team is also flexible and intuitive, helping everyone save time and avoid rework.

Advantages for standards users

1. Single Source - most comprehensive electronic database of global industry standards and military documents, with more than 1 million active and historical records from over 370 Standards Developing Organizations and the U.S. Government.
2. Flexible Searching - database includes full-text document images and can identify standards containing any word or text string relevant to a project.
3. Daily Updates - database is updated daily with new/modified content from the SDOs and U.S. Government – ensuring currency and reliability of the information provided. Document changes are reported through email notification.
4. On Demand Access - offers immediate access and download of documents providing flexibility in depth and breadth of information available.
5. Version Control - eliminates the possibility of designing/building to the wrong standards, which is offered in conjunction with IHS Reference Linking Solutions.
6. 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. Receive Alerts on new/revised documents dealing with a specific subject ensuring products are designed with best-practice, state-of-the-art technology.
7. 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.
8. 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.