Engineering Workbench (EWB)

Discover an online platform that simplifies and expedites the process for finding and managing standards and related information. Whether you need a small collection of standards for a single team or enterprise-wide access to standards and related information from hundreds of publishers and internal sources, Engineering Workbench from Standard Store provides a single source of vetted engineering knowledge.
The industry's top standards management solution, EWB connects your entire enterprise to the world's largest collection of continuously updated engineering and technical reference documents from over 500 standards developing organizations and publishers.
 

Manage and Optimize Management of Internal Standards and Documentation

Integrate Internal and Industry Engineering Standards with a Single PlatformIntegrate Internal and Industry Engineering Standards with a Single Platform
Your engineers, technical professionals, and suppliers utilize internal standards and specifications alongside industry standards. Standard Store has long provided the premier solutions for industry standards and related documents through Engineering Workbench (EWB). Now you can add your company standards and other internal engineering documentation to the Engineering Workbench with our Internal Standards Management solution. In addition, you can drive cost savings from your highly used standards through our Conformity Assessment services (accreditation, certification, testing, verification, calibration and inspection).
  • Ensure secure, segmented distribution of your engineering documentation with internal teams and suppliers/contractors
  • Consistently use the most current and correct company process spec or test procedure, and measure usage by user, team, project, vendor or contractor
  • Cull unnecessary and out-of-date standards
  • Adopt industry standards (or portions thereof) where practical for quality or cost reduction
  • Engineer unnecessary cost out of remaining internal standards or expand the solution space of the standard

CORE VALUES:

For Engineers, Scientists, Researchers and Related Professionals:
Discover solutions to technical challenges quickly to accelerate R&D and problem solving, and minimize rework in the design cycle.
For Engineering and Research Program Management:
Consolidate information sources to make your engineering teams more efficient and collaborative, while reducing costs and simplifying processes.
For Corporate Librarians and Standards Managers:
Increase utilization of knowledge sources and improve relevance of technical answers provided to engineering and R&D teams.
For Executive Management:
Deliver new innovations to market faster to grow revenue; increase engineering productivity and prevent redesign/rework to improve profitability; and ensure problems get solved faster to mitigate risks.

Standards Search and Management Capabilities in Engineering Workbench (EWB)

  • Intelligent Search: Single search field automatically distinguishes between document number and keywords, with type-ahead and popular document suggestions
  • Advanced Search/Research Tools: Query builder with Boolean operators, grouping of terms, and order operations logic; optional Research Assistant discovers knowledge through textual or graphical exploration
  • Personalization Tools:  Create annotations; bookmark documents, pages, and passages for quick access; and create and manage project folders
  • Watch Lists & Automatic Monitoring: Create shared lists to track project-specific documents, add items with a single click, and set alerts to be notified of standards changes
  • Document Management: Link to and integrate related documents
  • Project Management: Share common standards with remote teams
  • Multi-language Interface and Search: Search in English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
  • Document Notes: Add notes to a document record with ability to keyword search all notes and filter documents by those with notes attached
  • My Publications: Add document metadata (keywords, titles, URLs) to the index for future searches
  • Reference Links: Securely retrieve external content referenced within internal documents and workflow processes
  • Adding Documents (additional fee): Request documents outside of your subscription to meet immediate workflow needs
 

Standards, Codes and Specifications

The industry's top standards management solution from Standard Store connects your entire enterprise to the world's largest collection of continuously updated engineering and technical reference documents from nearly 500 standards developing organizations and publishers.
Features:
  • Intelligent Search
  • Advanced Search/Research Tools
  • Personalization Tools
  • Watch Lists & Automatic Monitoring
Benefits
  • Reduce cost and risk due to noncompliance, including loss of sales and market share
  • Improve time to market by empowering R&D and engineering to do their job, not waste time searching for and researching standards
  • Guarantee quality by ensuring consistent use of standards to meet customer and market requirements
  • Ensure user adoption with ease of platform deployment, training and support with our worldwide network of customer care professionals
  • Simplify procurement with single-point standards management solution requiring only one relationship, one negotiation and one transaction

Technical Reference

Knowledge Collections - A comprehensive online library of 36,000+ authoritative engineering and technical reference documents from the leading publishers - aggregated, accessible and curated for you in one place.
Expert Index Collection - A comprehensive collection of authoritative engineering and technical reference content, including more than 75 million technical articles, publications, reports, design principles/best practices, and over 100 eBook titles - aggregated and readily accessible in one place, to help engineers, scientists and other technical professionals quickly make the best decisions.
Features:
  • Next-generation search technology that extracts answers, not results
  • Full-text search ability and automatic related keyword searching - no need to match search terms exactly to discover answers
  • On-demand virtual subject matter expert guides you through data
  • Faceted filtering by publisher, publication date, author and more
  • Tools to annotate content with project notes and expert commentary, share and bookmark source documents and link directly to answers within them
Benefits
  • Accelerate research time by up to 30 percent
  • Solve problems faster by looking beyond your industry for answers
  • Increase engineering efficiency by reducing design cycles
  • Reduce errors and other project risks, and ensure compliance
  • Maximize corporate knowledge discovery and retention

Patents & Applications

Patent Solutions - A rich collection of more than 60 million patents and patent applications from key global markets, published in the original languages.
Features
  • Full-text searches and dynamic summaries available in multiple languages
  • Graphical toolset for performing a range of analyses
Benefits
  • Discover existing or potential solutions to technical challenges
  • Understand new markets and prepare successful entry strategies
  • Comply with intellectual property rights
  • Keep pace with competitor companies, including their R&D investments
  • Monitor technology trends
  • Set new trends and drive product/process improvements

Advanced research, problem-solving and analytics

A range of powerful tools, built from the ground up to help engineers and other technical professionals achieve sustainable productivity improvements, solve problems better and faster, and out-innovate the competition.
Features
  • Patented semantic technology that extracts answers from data regardless of location, type or language
  • Problem-solving and ideation tools, including Root Cause Analysis, Value Engineering and TRIZ
  • Access to innovation consultants with broad experience in knowledge management, engineering, product development, materials science and systems deployment
Benefits
  • Expedite the research process freeing engineers to focus on solving problems and developing solutions
  • Leverage prior knowledge to avoid repeating past mistakes
  • Accelerate problem solving and idea generation
  • Identify new markets and envision next-generation solutions
  • Gain insight into competitor, technology and market trends

EWB Solutions for Internal Standards Management and Optimization

Internal Standards Management
With the internal standards management solution from Standard Store, you can make sure your documents are accessible and cross-referenced with external/industry standards:
  • Control: Ensure secure, segmented distribution of your engineering documentation with internal teams and suppliers/contractors
  • Compliance: Consistently use the most current and correct company process spec or test procedure, and measure usage by user, team, project, vendor or contractor
  • Visibility: Gain better visibility into existing industry standards, reducing internal standards development costs and risks
  • Notification: Receive automatic alerts of critical changes or pending Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) to improve quality and provide opportunities for greater innovation

Standards Optimization (Conformity Assessment)
Standard Store offers an exclusive Conformity Assessment service for your high-cost internal standards. The objective is to identify and eliminate deviation from industry standards by preventing "gold-plating" that drives unnecessary costs. Standard Store will leverage industry benchmarking and cost data, software tools, and your own proprietary data to:
  • Cull unnecessary and out-of-date standards
  • Adopt industry standards (or portions thereof) when practical
  • Engineer unnecessary cost out of remaining internal standards or expand the solution space of the standard

Reference Linking Solution
Every organization has its own set of internal documents and systems that reference external content. These can be design standards, specifications, drawings, handbooks, procedures, and a host of other company/proprietary documents that reference external/industry standards, regulations and codes.
Maintaining these links and cross-references can be a huge drain on resources and productivity, not to mention potential risks related to compliance and quality. How do you make sure each links to the correct industry standard or code? Are those industry standards/codes accessible, up-to-date, and copyright compliant? Is everyone in the organization working to the same, consistent set of documents?
The Reference Linking Solution from Standard Store provides users with secured direct access to external standards, specifications and regulations from within their own documents and workflow processes. This solution allows users to work more efficiently by ensuring that the appropriate external documents are always available when they're needed and that all employees throughout an organization are using the correct version of a document.

Standards Access Simplified

A Standards Subscription from the Standard Store provides an efficient, money-saving, multi-user solution for accessing standards. By selecting content from multiple publishers, you build a unique subscription tailored to your business allowing you to only pay for the standards your company needs.
Standards Subscriptions that work for your business and your budget. We custom build a subscription pricing plan that fits your organization, based on:
  • The specific standard(s) or collection(s) of standards
  • The number of locations accessing the standards
  • The number of employees that need access
  • Members receive discounts on eligible standards

Benefits of a Standards Subscription

Save time and increase efficiency by accessing up-to-date standards from one centralized location that can be easily viewed by multiple users, whether at one location or many.

Saves Time

  • Optimizes resource utilization and productivity by highlighting available content and eliminating unnecessary research
  • Convenient, central control of document access
  • Creates a unified environment of over 130 content sources eliminating the need to work and synchronize data across systems
  • No management of local hardware and clients

Saves Money

  • Subscription model provides for more predictable budgeting
  • Choice of content access is made by you, avoiding being locked into content silos or paying for content you don’t need
  • Reduces the technical expertise needed for basic data management and collection activities
  • Focus staff on making decisions, not on finding data
  • Substantial savings for multiple users over individual per-document purchases

Simplifies Access

  • Intuitive, user-friendly functionality
  • Platform search, collaboration and alerting tools for the most effective/efficient use of your employee’s time
  • Automatic updates/revisions to content
  • Online Access to standards available worldwide, with offline access availability due to downloadable pdfs
  • Simultaneous access allowing multiple users to access standards at the same time
  • Dedicated support team
 

Find your Perfect Solution for Access to Standards

This comparison summarizes at a glance the various ways that you can obtain the standards you need

1. Individual Standards
DOWNLOAD PDF INSTANTLY OPTION TO ORDER HARD COPY
 
You Need
  • One or just a few licenses for each standard, one time download
You Get
  • Immediate access to PDF
  • Option to order hard copy
  • Automatic alerts for updates to standards
  • Access for one user per license
  • Download within some days from date of purchase
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Over 1,500,000 standards for individual sale
 
2. Standards Subscriptions
BUILD A CUSTOMIZED, COST SAVING, MULTI-USER SOLUTION
 

You need

  • Easily managed, online access to standards, allowing quick collaboration and sharing by concurrent users
You Get
  • Multi-user access to your standards during the term of your subscription
  • Electronically delivered standards through Standards Connect or other partner platforms
  • A substantial savings versus accumulating costs on individual purchases
  • Automatic updates to subscribed standards at no additional cost and notifications to keep users informed
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Over 1,500,000 active and historic standards from more than 150 publishers
 
3. Standards Packages
BUILD YOUR COLLECTION AT A DISCOUNT WITH PREDEFINED PACKAGES
 
You Need
  • More than one standard for a specific industry to meet requirements, or implement a management system.
You Get
  • Access over 350 exclusive Standard Store developed packages, preconfigured for your convenience, discounted to save you money
  • Immediate access to PDF
  • Access for one user per license
  • Download within seven (7) days from date of purchase
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Over 350 standards packages to choose from

Main Standards Packages:

Standard Store has developed and compiled a comprehensive collection of standard packages to support your standard requirements. Our packages cover an array of content that includes quality management, risk management, road vehicles, machine safety, and much more. With over 350 packages to choose from, you are sure to find a collection to suit your standard needs.