Understanding and Leveraging Industry Standards in Standards in Australia
Using standards saves Australian businesses time and money by streamlining business regulation compliance, providing a common language for doing business, and reducing time to market.
The Role of Standards in Facilitating Innovation
The contribution of standards to innovation has been proven by both experience and academic research. Yet many are still stuck in a ‘compliance rut’ where they think of standards only as a barrier to product commercialisation.
Developing a Company Standards Strategy
In this interconnected, collaborative business world no company can afford to be without a Company Standards Strategy. Standards connect a business to its customers and the market and underpin all of its activities.
Understanding and Leveraging Industry Standards in Standards in Italy and Europe
Explore topics of how Italian businesses can best understand and manage domestic, European and international industry standards.
ASME Journals Online
Learn the importance of journals in the field of mechanical engineering, profile the most effective research materials, and demonstrate how new technological advances make textual research more complete and less time-consuming than ever before.
How to Select Relevant and Applicable Energy Industry Standards
Learn about the standards management options currently available, the best approach to identifying the right standards the first time and how third party solutions can make the process quicker, easier and more efficient.
Top Performers Use Compliance Best Practices
Manufacturers that comply with regulations and can demonstrate compliance on a regular basis profit with increased global market share, fewer stop shipments, and fewer product recalls. These benefits of regulatory compliance positively impact corporate bottom lines and promote positive company image and branding.
Effectively Dealing with the Increase of Electronics Industry Standards
What is the best way to simplify a management process that has become increasingly time intensive and complicated? How does the lack of consistent global standards affect the industry? Learn how industry leaders are tackling these issues and what third party suppliers are doing to make the process both cost and time effective.
Finding the Right Standards Management Approach
With the increase in the number of standards, as well as stricter compliance regulations, the old “binder on the shelf” mentality will no longer suffice. Learn how third party suppliers are creating both off the shelf and custom solutions for clients to help them manage and integrate standards, specifications, regulations and engineering information.
Effectively Dealing with the Proliferation of Aerospace and Defense Standards
The added time and costs associated with standards selection, reliability research and reporting have created new business challenges for the Aerospace and Defense industries. Learn about the technology solutions third party suppliers are creating that can simplify the standards research, identification and procurement process and help assure compliance.
Direct Reference Linking Solution - Mitigate Compliance Risks and Improve Workflow
The right standards management approach, as illustrated in this paper, makes updates easy, assures system access to the appropriate copy, meets QA requirements, improves workflow and reduces costs. Learn how third party suppliers are using linking solutions to make the standards management and compliance process easier for you.
Safety Management Solutions
Learn about the cost/benefits of implementing a “Safety and Health Program” as well as a simple three stage program outline to get you started. Don’t have time to implement your own “Safety and Health Program?” Learn how third party suppliers are making the process easier by helping busy companies get “up to speed” and stay there with standards and regulations compliance solutions.
Leveraging the Benefits of Global Industry Standards in China
Learn how China’s contributions to the standards development tradition helped facilitate trade relations and what third party suppliers are doing to ease the time and money crunch associated with the ever growing standards research, identification and procurement process.
Why Standards are Important
In order to demonstrate full value, standards must be used consistently throughout the project lifecycle. Learn the benefits of a implementing a convenient, easy to use third party standards management system to gain user buy-in and decrease chances of non-compliance.
Digital Rights Management - Mitigating the Risk of Copyright Infringement
The trend of toughening up on copyright violations is moving beyond the music, movie, and software industries into the world of standards users. Learn about the three different types of standards copyright violators, how SDOs are handling violations, and the best third party solutions to minimize copyright infringement risks.
Leveraging and Developing Domestic and Global Industry Standards in Canada
Explore how standards and supporting organizations impact Canadian business. Learn how products and processes benefit from knowledge sharing, and streamlined international trade and standards compliance.
How Online Digital Libraries Can Improve Automotive Processes
Learn about the implementation of online delivery of oft-used technical documents and what benefits are seen in comparison to traditional hard-copy libraries. As a case example, the report examines the use of this digital information at Nissan Motor Company.
Understanding and Utilising Industry Standards in Great Britain and Europe
Explore topics related to British business and how to best understand and manage domestic, European and international industry standards. Highlights include the benefits of standards, distinguishing between SDOs and ESOs and the best practices for conformity with EU’s New Approach directives.
Increase Business Success in Mexico
Explore the potential for business success related to the increase in imports and exports in Mexico and the impact of understanding and applying standards.
Understanding and Managing Industry Standards in Germany and Europe
Explore how German business can best understand and manage options in terms of domestic, European and international industry standards. Highlights include the benefits of standards, distinguishing between the nature and roles of various SDOs and compliance within the Single European Market
The Key to the Competitive Advantage - How Japanese Exports Leverage Foreign and International Standards
For decades, Japan’s economy has relied on strategic use of foreign market specifications and standards to build a competitive advantage in the industries of electronics and automotive products. Japan’s success in these markets has inspired other industrialized nations to seek export opportunities in foreign markets and have widely contributed to the harmonization of global standards.
Understanding and Managing Industry Standards in France and Europe
Explore how French and European business can best understand and manage options in terms of domestic, European and international industry standards. Highlights include the benefits of standards, distinguishing between the nature and roles of various SDOs and compliance within the Single European Market.
Composites in Aerospace Applications (pdf)
Electronic Standards Access in Aviation: Real Time Savings (pdf)
How to Obtain Market Information for Intelligent Bid Decisions
The U.S. Government makes hundreds of thousands of documents and databases available regarding procurements. But, the finding the specific part information needed to support bid decisions or an existing contract requires a significant amount of time. Stop Wasting Time Searching Government Databases.
MRO Data Optimization
Industrial, process and manufacturing organizations are often plagued by 'dirty' MRO item descriptions. Learn how to effectively utilize a schema (or data dictionary) and automated classification software for cleansing and standardizing item descriptions.
Living With the Dynamics of Electronic Components
Introduces the philosophy of Component Event Management and introduce a new category of software that is being developed to help implement this conceptand improve business performance.
Reducing Design Engineering Costs Through Information Handling
Gain insight into third party techniques and online applications proven to help businesses reduce design engineering costs while increasing company efficiency.
Stop Wasting Time Searching Government Databases
Discover how third party vendors help aerospace and defense contractors efficiently obtain critical parts and supplier information.
Unleashing the Power of EAM Systems by Optimizing MRO Catalog Data
Learn how to fully realize the power of EAM systems through effective industrial MRO parts information optimization such as consolidated catalogs of complete and consistent descriptions that are free of duplication and ambiguity.
Cost Savings through MRO Parts Data Optimization
Explore how business is addressing the high costs associated with MRO parts, equipment, and supply management through data optimization.
Risks to the System from Electronic Parts Obsolescence
Learn the roots of the obsolescence problem and the major strategies large corporations as well as the military, (through the program of DMSMS, or, Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages), use to cope with the consequences of the electronic parts obsolescence.
Cleaning Up a Direct Materials Database
Explore the ways data cleansing, standardization and enrichment of direct parts data adds significant value to an organization and lays the foundation for a myriad of opportunities across the supply chain and beyond.
Implications of RoHS / WEEE Compliance
Explore the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) management requirements and restrictions on the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment(RoHS) in Europe and the actions taking place to achieve compliance assures that businesses operate uninterrupted by supply issues or regulatory fines.
Integrating Specs & Standards into Your Internal Company Documents
Explore the types of engineering information available, the methods used to automatically monitor and update data and how to best integrate external data into your internal system when specifications and standards change.
Avoiding the High Costs of Re-work
Learn how using codes and standards effectively and consistently throughout the lifetime of a construction project reduces the potential for re-work, assures that a quality project is delivered, and provides a basis for resolving disputes during inspections and project close-out with regulators and owners.
Solving the Parts Obsolescence Dilemma (pdf)
Universal Commodity Parts System for Aircraft Manufacturers and Air Carriers (pdf)
From Content to Integration: Gaining Greater Value from Information (pdf)
ESDU Data Services: A Web Reincarnation (pdf)