Comprehensive Source for Industry Specifications and Standards
IHS products and solutions serve the critical information needs of many industries including energy , automotive, construction, electronics and aerospace. According to a recent independent study conducted by Outsell, Inc., an industry focused research and advisory firm, IHS ranks as the leading provider of subscriptions for specifications and standards worldwide. Why is this ranking important to you? IHS can deliver to your desktop the world’s largest collection of industry standards with full-text search technology, cross-reference information, and superseding document links. All this and more from a single, comprehensive source — IHS Specs & Standards.
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Commercial Engineering Standards
The Commercial Engineering Standards content of HIS Specs & Standards covers International, National, European, U.S., Corporate and Historical Standards, and includes more than 450,000 documents written by over 370 standards developing organizations (SDOs) worldwide. These organizations include: AIA/NAS, ANSI, API, ASQ, ASME, ASTM, BSI, CSA, DIN, EIA (including ECA, JEDEC, GEIA, TIA), GM, IEC, ICEA, IEEE/IEL, IPC, ISA, ISO, NEMA, NFPA, SAE, UL and many more.
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Benefits of an IHS Specs & Standards Subscription
With a subscription to the IHS Specs & Standards online service, you will have immediate access to the critical technical information you need. IHS Specs & Standards delivers:
• Instant access to thousands of documents, images, international and military standards 24x7 from anywhere in the world – eliminating wasted hours researching information from manuals, CD-ROMs, or even microfilm/fiche.
• Daily updates to one of the world’s most comprehensive technical information collections – helping you minimize costly design mistakes and ensuring compliance to ISO and other quality initiatives.
• Access to the electronic index with full-text searching – allowing you to research and retrieve results on the entire database even if the document isn’t included in your subscription.
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Powerful Functional Performance
As a project management tool, IHS Specs & Standards has powerful functionality:
• Search Complete Document Text – expand your search beyond titles and abstracts to efficiently locate specific text within both industry standards and DoD documents. More than 350,000 commercial standards and DoD documents are available as PDF files with full-text indexing for increased search capability.
• Search Refinement – easily browse or refine searches based on a variety of characteristics such as organization, status, date, or document type.
• Document List Management – get email notification of updates, automatically update to the latest revision, “freeze” documents at a specific version, create private lists of frequently used documents (enables sharing of documents) or secure lists. This feature offers a complete project management tool that allows rapid document retrieval and ensures compliance to ISO and other quality initiatives.
• Advanced Navigation Technology – speeds navigation to referenced documents, document story, abstracts, or allows you to easily add a document to your private list.
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Military & Government Documents
The Military and Government content of IHS Specs & Standards offers a variety of specifications and standards that support tasks through the lifecycle of government goods and services, from design through procurement, manufacturing, quality control and maintenance. Military & Government Documents include:
• Active DoD Standardization Service (Mil Specs) – More than 80,000 active military documents are available through the IHS Specs & Standards service.
• DoD Adopted Standards – The DoD regularly adopts industry standards, and IHS Specs & Standards features more than 9,500 DoD Adopted Standards from over 40 standards-related organizations.
• Search by ICS Code – enables you to browse an International Classification System (ICS) Code under the Browse/Refine search tab. This code is used throughout the European community and is assigned to most international standards.
• eCommerce Capabilities – supplement your subscription with the Electronic Shopping Cart and IHS Gatekeeper System, which are designed to help you save time, control costs and increase your productivity.
The Shopping Cart can be used to purchase documents not included in your current subscription. Documents can be ordered in either electronic (PDF) format for immediate download (subject to availability) or in hardcopy format.
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Flexible Delivery Options
Your subscription can be customized to meet your individual or organization’s specific document access needs locally or globally, delivered via Internet, extranet, intranet, DVD, Web Services, XML, or PDF.
IHS Custom Collections
The IHS Custom Collection service allows you to build a unique subscription collection with documents from standards developing organizations for which an entire collection purchase is not your best option. With IHS Custom Collections, you choose the specific documents you need – selecting from the IHS Specs & Standards index of more than 1 million documents from hundreds of sources.
IHS Reference Linking Solutions
IHS Reference Linking Solutions provide secured direct access to critical external content (e.g. specifications, standards and regulations) referenced from within your organization’s documents and workflow processes. The advanced linking technology of this solution, which works with a variety of applications, eliminates the risks associated with lack of document control – assuring that users are getting the correct document and version of a document every time they need it
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