IHS White Paper: Direct Reference Linking Solution
- Mitigate Compliance Risks and Improve Workflow

A standards compliance infrastructure leads to successful project execution. Effective operations and project execution require accurate, accessible information in order to maintain standards compliance. Achieving compliance requires personnel’s access to relevant documentation. Consistency is key to ensure all available documentation is current and managed appropriately. This White Paper offers a means to implement accurate information when required; ensuring projects are executed successfully in compliance.

This White Paper illustrates how the right standards management approach can

• Make standards and specifications updates easy
• Assure that the system is providing access to the appropriate copy
• Meet quality assurance requirements by always using the right standard
• Improve project workflow through linkable references
• Reduce project costs by optimizing standards digital libraries

Typical approaches to standards management include: corporate libraries, electronic document control, frequent quality assurance audits, and elaborate documentation development and approval processes are examined in this paper.

Due to the prevalence of compliance issues, independent quality assurance organizations often include standards compliance as a primary audit area. Scenarios using standards compliance actions and their potential outcomes are examined in this paper.

Noncompliance issues can significantly be reduced by use of a reference linking system of procedures to specifications and standards content. The benefits of using reference linking are plentiful and far exceed the need to achieve compliance. Improved compliance with specifications and standards provides an array of benefits to include:

• Reduced downtime to address corrective actions
• Increased market share due to production increases and rejection decrteases
• Expanded markets due to increased interoptability and compatibility
• Cost reductions associated with maintaining project schedules
• Reducing time to market

IHS supplies users with the tool of reference linking, which provides the same standards and versions to all project phases avoiding adverse cost, schedule and quality impacts. The accessibility created by reference linking increases the use of reference documents thereby improving the company’s return on investment.

Download this White Paper and find out how to mitigate compliance risk, improve standards management and save money by reducing re-work through improved workflow and timely access to applicable standards.