IHS Tips & Trends

IHS Tips & Trends - FEB 2004

IN THIS ISSUE:

1. IHS Compliance Standards Solutions Improve Worker Safety and Health While Saving
Compensation Costs and Fine Assessments

2. New ROI Tool Available for Aviation & Aerospace Industry Helps IHS Customers Quantify
Their Savings
3. Now Available! CAPS(TM) BOM Manager
4. IHS Intra/Spex(TM) Provides Customers with a Secure, Intranet Document Management Solution
5. Plan Analyst: Building Code Compliance (Code Check and Plan Analysis) Software
6. State Specific Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance Manuals
7. IHS Exhibits - Upcoming Tradeshows/Events
8. Seminar Archives

1. IHS Compliance Standards Solutions Improve Worker Safety and Health While Saving
Compensation Costs and Fine Assessments

Workplace safety is a concern in every company. The impact to a company can include: lost resources, downtime, fine assessments, increased insurance rates, profit loss, litigation costs and damaged image. According to OSHA's Office of Regulatory Analysis, "companies that implement effective safety and health programs can expect reductions of 20% or greater in their injury and illness rates and a return of $4 to $6 for every $1 invested."

An IHS compliance standards solution supports your worker safety initiatives by providing the critical safety standards required by federal regulations. Improve your safety programs and mitigate risk with access to some 250 U.S. and international standards and codes that are referenced within OSHA regulation 1910, including: ANSI, API, ASA, ASME, ASTM, AWS, BSI, IEEE, NEMA, NFPA, and UL. In addition, IHS compliance standards also increase productivity by providing automatic links to the industry standards you need, reducing your search and access time by up to 75%!

To learn more about IHS Compliance Standards Solutions, contact Cindi Hines, Director, Industry Marketing by email, cindi.hines@ihs.com or call (800)525-7052 ext. 2510

2. New ROI Tool Available for Aviation & Aerospace Industry Helps IHS Customers Quantify
Their Savings

It should come as no surprise to you that IHS Aviation & Aerospace solutions increase your efficiency, accelerate the speed/time of repairs and streamlines your access to industry standards, compliance and regulatory data, but what if you could actually quantify the amount of money that utilizing the IHS solution saves you each year?

With an ROI calculation tool developed by Phormion specifically for IHS, you can translate your operation cost data, including salaries, downtime, hardware costs and virtually any other variable into a compelling argument and justification for using the IHS solution. The ROI tool was created specifically for the aviation industry and can be presented to management, the end user or purchasing to justify the time and cost savings realized through the use of electronic access to IHS Aviation & Aerospace solutions.

Contact your IHS sales rep for an analysis or to learn more about this ROI tool.

For more information on IHS Aviation & Aerospace Industry Solutions, visit the

Aerospace Portal or contact IHS Customer Support 800-447-3352 (USA/Canada) or +1-303-397-2295 (Worldwide)

3. Now Available! CAPS(TM) BOM Manager

Minimizing supply chain cost and identifying parts lifecycle and product changes can be a daunting task. However, CAPS BOM Manager, now available from IHS, allows users to validate Bills of Materials (BOMs) and Parts Lists against the CAPS Database quickly and efficiently. The CAPS BOM Manager provides users with a streamlined BOM evaluation, which is matched against the largest database of electronic components in the industry and is continuously updated with lifecycle status information and new part documentation. The end result is a clean, accurate BOM that helps you to quickly validate internal parts lists and suppliers - directly from your desktop.

In addition, the BOM Manager stores all generated BOMs. This storage feature allows authorized users to re-check a BOM at any time to quickly identify all changes in part status that may have occurred. Additional value added features of the CAPS BOM Manager include:

Automated e-mail alerts for end-of-life (EOL) notices and part status changes
Flexible interface accepts Excel and CSV formats
Aliasing engine maps and remembers CAPS supplier names, allowing you to retain internal supplier names (e.g. You type TI and CAPS automatically connects you to Texas Instruments, Inc. supplier information)
Standardized part descriptions, manufacturer names, and current part status

4. IHS Intra/Spex(TM) Provides Customers with a Secure, Intranet Document Management Solution

For those of you with security requirements or concerns, IHS Intra/Spex provides the perfect Intranet solution in a fully secure application that is controlled 100% by the customer. IHS Intra/Spex is a true web server application, with no client installations or setups. And, it resides completely behind an organization's firewall with no links to the Internet.

IHS Intra/Spex allows multiple products to be accessed in a single application, resulting in convenience to users and significant cost savings to organizations. In addition, users can easily add their own documents - from a few to tens of thousands of documents and incorporate those documents side by side with IHS data for simultaneous searching within Intra/Spex. Extra benefits & features include:

Inherent User/Group Management Administrative feature - provides statistical reporting, enabling users to keep track of documents and time associated with specific projects
Multiple Language Interface - controlled at the user level, every user can choose their own language as well as maintain their own "preferred documents" lists

To learn more about IHS Intra/Spex, visit

this page or contact IHS Customer Support 800-447-3352 (USA/Canada) or +1-303-397-2295 (Worldwide)

5. Plan Analyst: Building Code Compliance (Code Check and Plan Analysis) Software

The Plan Analyst range of software is now available through Global Engineering Documents, the retail arm of IHS. Plan Analyst is used by thousands of architects and building officials across the United States. The software completes building code studies and plan checks quickly and efficiently, which allows you to evaluate projects and explore how code requirements change with minor changes in the project description. Based on simple input, it searches through various codes, finds the code requirements (including exceptions) that may apply and performs relevant calculations. Plan Analyst's output is a customized checklist and a correction report that enables architects to obtain building permits faster and building officials to check and issue permits more quickly.

The Plan Analyst software includes versions for: IBC 2000 and 2003, IRC 2000 and 2003, NFPA 101, NFPA 13, UBC 1997, NBC 1999, SBC 1997, 2002 Florida Building Code, Deck Calculator, Sign Calculator and the Beam and Column Calculator.

To learn about more about Plan Analyst software visit,
http://www.plananalyst.com/

For more information about IHS A/E/C solutions, email construction@ihs.com or phone David Richards at 800-525-7052 ext. 2539.

6. State Specific Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance Manuals

IHS recently launched a new subscription collection containing the complete range of Jordan Publishing's ADA Accessibility Compliance Manuals. This includes new Manuals for Georgia and Indiana, which join the existing manuals for Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. These interpretative manuals contain the adopted standards and codes by individual state. Architects, designers, owners, contractors, and others are provided a clear and concise reference source of the exact requirements to assist with accessibility compliance. Manuals are also available individually via Global Engineering Documents, the retail arm of IHS.

Click here view a list of Jordan Publishing's ADA Accessibility Compliance Manuals, or contact IHS Global Engineering Documents 800-854-7179 (USA/Canada) or +1-303-397-7956 (Worldwide)

For more information about IHS A/E/C solutions, email construction@ihs.com, or phone David Richards at 800-525-7052 ext. 2539

7. IHS Exhibits - Upcoming Tradeshows/Events

2004 SAE World Congress
March 8-11,2004 Detroit, Michigan
www.wbresearch.com/deflogus03

SAE World Congress is home for the global automotive engineering community. This is the one annual event that every engineer, manager and executive can count on for the highest quality technical and business information available in this global industry.

16th Annual EASS - European Aviation Safety Seminar
March 15-17, 2004 Barcelona, Spain
http://www.flightsafety.org/seminars.html#eass

This seminar offers information and ideas from around the world for application to European aviation safety.

TACOM Industry Logistics Symposium
March 16-18, 2004 Dearborn, Michigan
http://www.cbd-net.com/index.php/search/show/512382

This Logistics Symposium brings together government and industry personnel to discuss issues and concerns relevant to the constant changes in the logistics environment.

FOSE
March 23-25,2004 Washington, DC.
http://www.fose.com

FOSE is the nation's largest information technology exposition serving the government marketplace.

8. Seminar Archives

Were you unable to attend past IHS Web Seminars? No worries! You can view all archived seminars whenever your schedule permits to assist you in identifying products and solutions to meet your objectives

To access all archived seminars, visit http://engineers.ihs.com/engineering/seminars/seminar-archive.jsp

To view a list of upcoming seminars, visit this page.

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