Designed for engineering and technical professionals
Engineering Workbench is for you if you want to:
- Make better decisions faster
- Reduce business risk
- Increase engineer productivity
- Mitigate human error
- Accelerate innovation
Integrate a universe of knowledge into your engineering process
Our SDO partnerships and patented machine learning and natural language processing technologies allow users to find, store, share, compare, and manage standards in real time.
- 500+ years of combined AI experience
- 2.3+ million industry standards
- 76.5+ million technical articles, journals and books
- 107+ million patents, patent applications, utility models, and abstracts
- 39M+ industry-to-industry reference links
- 10k engineering manuals, handbooks, and reference books
- 650k users worldwide
- 60+ years as a trusted partner
Our comprehensive approach enables our customers to make sense of their standards data more quickly and effectively
Engineering Workbench is the industry’s leading standards management solution. Make your engineering workflows faster and more efficient with an unparalleled library of global standards and technical content, backed by deep learning algorithms that help you surface the right information, at the right time.
Standards are updated throughout the year. It takes engineers days, or sometimes weeks to find all the changes and understand the consequences of the updates. Not only does this take time away from engineers, but it costs companies millions of dollars over time. Smart Compare provides a solution – automatically identifying changes to standards as they get published. This patented technology helps engineers identify, compare, and manage changes to standards in real time. Smart Compare highlights all changes, insertions, deletions, and grammatical and editorial updates to any document from over 400 SDOs.
Exclusive AI technology automatically generates over 39 million embedded industry-to-industry reference links that are found in-line across codes and standards documents from 400+ SDOs. Dynamic Linking provides instant summaries and full contents for linked references. This powerful feature reduces time to do research, helping engineers easily understand how codes and standards are interconnected.
Create shareable links to entire standards and codes documents, document pages, and specific passages within that document. Get Link helps teams collaborate more effectively, because a user can easily share links with a teammate for referenced content within any document.
Type your query into a single search field that automatically distinguishes between document numbers and keywords. Whether you know the title of the standard you are looking for, or are using keywords to find the correct document, Intelligent Search understands the query and provides relevant answers, along with type-ahead and popular document suggestions.
When you don’t know which documents are applicable to a particular challenge, Research Assistant can quickly navigate to the standards you need, using powerful AI technologies. This tool enables textual and graphical exploration, leveraging AI-powered cognitive search, machine learning and natural language processing. Research Assistant acts as your virtual subject matter expert - connecting knowledge across topics, disciplines, and industries to surface relevant information related to your search query.
Use the query builder to refine your searches using up to a dozen different search fields. For example, if you’re looking for an ISO standard on quality management, type “ISO” into the publishing organization field, and “quality management requirements” into the title field. This tool uses Boolean operators, grouping of terms, order operations logic, and the ability to include or exclude criteria to build complex queries.
The Document Viewer reduces your wait time when opening and loading a document. Instead of waiting for an entire thousand-page document to load, the Document Viewer “streams” documents page by page, so you can view document contents almost instantly – a noticeable improvement when viewing lengthy documents. Browse through documents with the Table of Contents feature, which allows you to jump directly to a specific section of the document. Engineering Workbench also adds dynamically generated document summaries to describe the standards contents (which can be translated into several major languages), giving users the ability to understand the purpose of a document without having to read through the text.
Create annotations on or within Standards and Codes documents. Customize your homepage and pin important documents. Bookmark documents, pages, and passages for quick access. If you’re working on a project and need to keep all related documents in one location, create folders in the Projects panel to organize documents to make collaboration easy and efficient.
Create shared watch lists to track documents, adding items with a single click. Users will get notifications when documents change and new versions are released.
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2.3M+ Standards, Codes & Specs from global partners
Continuously updated full-text standards, codes, regulations, and specs from SDOs and other publishers. Subscribe to the content that’s right for your business - whether you need a small collection of standards for a single team, or enterprise-wide access to standards and technical content from hundreds of publishers.
- Over 2.3 million industry standards, codes, and specifications from global publishers
- 1.7 million documents, eBooks and journals gathered worldwide from nearly 200 publishers including standards developing organizations (SDOs), national standards bodies (NSBs) and Tier 1 manufacturers.
- Accuris partners with SDOs like
- ASTM
- ASME
- SAI
- API
- ANSI
- BSI
- IEEE
- IEC
- AWS
- DS
- US DoD Standardization Service content:
- Over 800,000 active Mil Specs & related documents
- Historical mil specs for engineers, maintenance and logistics
personnel to support aging weapon systems throughout the lifecycle - Directives
- US DoD-Adopted Standards: 8,500+ Active and 34,000 total from 60+
SDOs - US Naval Instructions and Directives
- US Army Regulations and Pamphlets
- UK Ministry of Defense Specs & Standards
- French Ministry of Defense standards
- Aerospace & Defense Industries Association of Europe
- NASA
- NATO
- NRC Canada
- US Federal Construction Regulations (FCR)
- Transportation Specs & Standards including:
- US FAA Specifications Standards and Orders
- EASA, ICAO, FSF
- UK Civil Aviation Authority
- Transport Canada including CAR
- Select EU Regulations from the Official Journal (OJ), Directives & Guidance
- Select US Regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Directives & Guidance
- Flexible Delivery Options
- Choose global delivery via Internet and XML
Over 36,000 Technical Reference Sources
Other content includes 36,000+ engineering and technical titles organized into 19 engineering disciplines and subject areas within disciplines.
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- A cloud-based library with 8,000+ manuals, handbooks, reference books and more – covering topics across industry sectors and technical fields.
- 27 publishers
- AMACOM, American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS), ASM International, ASTM International, American Water Works Association (AWWA), Chemical Publishing Company, Clarion, Inc., CRC Press, DEStech Publications, Inc., Dunedin Academic Press, Hobart Institute of Welding Technology, Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET), Industrial Press, Inc., International Society of Automation (ISA), IT Governance Ltd., Maney Publishing, McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, PACKT Publishing, Inc., SAE International, SPIE- International Society for Optics & Photonics, Springer, Synapse Information Resources Inc., Technology Perspectives, Trans Tech Publications, Inc., John Wiley & Sons, World Scientific Publishing Company
- 19 discipline collections
- Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Earth Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Engineering Management, Environmental Engineering, Food Science, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Safety, Life Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials Science, Oil and Gas Engineering, Software Engineering
- 27 publishers
- A cloud-based library with 8,000+ manuals, handbooks, reference books and more – covering topics across industry sectors and technical fields.
- An online tool from McGraw-Hill providing technical books, manuals, handbooks and more – enriched with instructional videos, interactive tables and charts, and personalization tools.
- AccessEngineering users have access to DataVis™, an interactive data visualization tool that makes it easy to compare and evaluate multiple properties simultaneously.
- Available Springer Collections include Engineering eBook Collection, Aerospace Collection, Automotive Collection, Chemical Manufacturing Collection, Consumer Packaged Goods Collection, Electronics Collection, Energy, Utilities & Environment Collection, Finance, Business & Banking Collection, IT & Software Collection, IT & Software Collection, Law Collection, Materials & Steel Collection, Oil, Gas & Geosciences Collection, Telecommunications Collection
- 50+ engineering titles covering topics related to the design, installation or operation of pressure vessels.
- Publishers include: ASM International, ASTM International, Chemical Publishing Company, CRC Press, DEStech Publications, Maney Publishing, Oxford University Press, Trans Tech Publications, John Wiley & Sons
76.5+ Million Resources Indexed
The Expert Index Collection is an index of 76.5+ million technical articles, publications, reports, design principles/best practices, eBook titles, and more.
- Full-Text Content
- ArXiv.org
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- DSpace@MIT
- Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
- Hindawi Publishing Corporation
- IEEE GlobalSpec
- Nuclear Safety Standards Coimmission (Kerntechnischer Ausschuss- KTA)
- NASA Tech Briefs
- NASA STI Articles
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission Articles
- OSTI
- ResearchWorks at the University of Washington
- Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)
- Index-Only Content (Separate subscription may be required to access full-text content. Contact us for details.)
- The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- The American Nuclear Society (ANS)
- American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- ASM International
- The American Society of Quality (ASQ)
- ASTM International
- Begell House
- Crambeth Allen (ePTQ.com, hydrocarbonchina.com)
- Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences (EDP Science)
- Energy Institute (EI)
- Fire and Blast Information Group (FABIG)
- IEEE — The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- International Association of Plastics Distribution (IAPD)
- International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
- The IUCr, International Union of Crystallography
- The Institute of Physics (IOP)
- The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
- InterRegs
- Maney Journals
- MATDAT Materials Database
- McGraw-Hill AccessScience
- National Fluid Power Association (NFPA)
- OnePetro.org
- PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG)
- PLASA
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
- ProjectEuclid@Duke University
- PubMed
- Royal Aeronautical Society
- SAE International
- Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE)
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE)
- SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics
- Springer for R&D
- The SpringerMaterials Database
- Techniques de L’Ingenieur
- Total Materia by Key to Metals
- Transportation Research Board
- TWI
- Wiley Journals
- Full-Text Access Content
- Technical Web Collection by Accuris
- Scientific Effects by Accuris
More than 100 titles from leading technical publisher John Wiley & Sons
107+ Million Patent Solutions
A rich collection of patents, patent applications, utility models, and abstracts from key global markets, published in their original languages. Access 50+ years of worldwide patent data with a set of specialized analytical tools created with engineers and technical researchers in mind.
- A library of 107+ million patents and applications with full-text searchability and dynamic summaries available in multiple languages:
- U.S. Granted Patents (USPTO): 1971 – current
- U.S. Patent Applications (USPTO): 2001 – current
- European Granted Patents (EPO): 1981 – current
- European Patent Applications (EPO): 1988 – current
- Great Britain Granted Patents: 1970 – current
- Great Britain Patent Applications: 1979 – current
- German Granted Patents: 1980 – current
- German Patent Applications: 1970 – current
- German Gebrauchsmusters (Utility Model): 1980 – current
- French Granted Patents: 1985 – current
- French Patent Applications: 1976 – current
- Japanese Patent Abstracts (JPO): 1976 – current
- Japanese Patent Applications: 1993 – current
- Japanese Granted Patents: 1994 – current
- Chinese Granted Patents
- Chinese Granted Patents for Utility Models
- Chinese Patent Applications
- Chinese Utility Model Applications
- WIPO PCT Publications (WIPO): 1978 – current
- A graphical toolset for performing a range of analyses on that same set of 107+ million patents and applications. Extract valuable intelligence from patent bibliographic data and spot influential trends with Patent Intelligence semantic analysis and metadata.
- Patent Search, Technology Analysis, Company Analysis, and Patent Reference Analysis tools help you identify trends, companies, and innovators.
- The Patent Search Tool
- Search for specific patents based on a variety of criteria (patent number, title, assignee, abstract, etc). This is helpful when you know the document required or would like to identify patents assigned to a given company or a particular inventor.
- View semantically generated summaries of patents in any of the supported languages (English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese), regardless of the language of the original document. Quickly and easily determine whether a given patent is applicable to your research, then view the full-text patent in the original language, either in a text-based HTML document or as a PDF document.
- The Patent Search Tool
- Patent Search, Technology Analysis, Company Analysis, and Patent Reference Analysis tools help you identify trends, companies, and innovators.
- Maps semantically relevant discussions of a technology against one or more patent content sources.
- Analysis results include:
- Patent activity for up to 5 assignees (inventors or organizations employing the inventor) or groups
- Bibliographic data
- Assignee List
- Blended inventor list
- Patent class distribution
- Top 5 assignees, inventors and patent classes
- The tool presents you with a view of patent activity related to a particular technology over time, so you can understand, for example, where the technology is in its lifecycle. That information could be useful in evaluating whether a company should make investments in researching a technology, or direct investment elsewhere. Leading inventors can also be identified, helping you find key researchers around a given technology area.
- Generates a specific innovation profile for one assignee or a group of assignees to help identify core technologies, key inventors, trends within specific technologies, and citation anomalies.
- The analysis includes:
- Patent Activity Chart
- Inventor Lists
- Bibliographic data
- Class distribution
- The resulting chart and listing data can help identify:
- Core Technologies
- Key Inventors
- Trends within specific technologies
- Citation anomalies
- The analysis includes:
- View a company’s activities related to patents and technologies or compare the activities of multiple companies to understand competitive trends over time. This helps you understand how much companies are investing in research related to technology.
- View citations of a patent by other patents (as well as by/from patent applications), in addition to mapping out the assignees/companies attached to forward and backward references.
- Backward references provide a map to the “pedigree” of a patent – the history of the technologies or innovations incorporated into the patent.
- Forward citations are often very useful in determining potential innovation barriers, competitors, or licensing opportunities. “Young” patent documents with relatively high forward citation counts are particularly useful to discover and investigate technology trends, owners, and valuation.
- Tailor your working environment to suit your project requirements and research needs
- Saved Searches and Alerts
- Save queries for later use, or schedule specified queries to run periodically and email you about new results. Save queries to your Home Page or link them to a project saved in your personalized workspace.
- Provides a place for you to save, organize, and share your search related to a project or topic of interest.
Your new engineering workflow:
Engineering Workbench eliminates time wasted due to:
- Manually searching for information
- Manually checking for new versions of standards
- Manually comparing versions to identify changes
- Manually looking up terms and industry-to-industry references
- Accessing standards in siloed locations
- Disorganized collaboration with no point of reference
- Annotating hard copy standards by hand
- Facing challenges without expert support
Engineering Workbench enables more efficient workflows with the following features:
- Surface the correct information from the millions of pages with the AI-powered cognitive search engine
- Automated alerts when standards change
- Automatically see changes to updated standards
- Easily understand requirement relationships between standards with over 39 million in-line links for industry-to-industry references
- Find all standards in one location as a single source of truth
- Collaborate using direct links to documents, pages, and phrases
- Organize and annotate standards on the platform
- Consult with subject matter experts, get world class 24/5 customer support, and access customized trainings
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Engineering Workbench eliminates time wasted due to:
Engineering Workbench enables more efficient workflows with the following features:
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Manually searching for information
Surface the correct information from the millions of pages with the AI-powered cognitive search engine
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Manually checking for new versions of standards
Automated alerts when standards change
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Manually comparing versions to identify changes
Automatically see changes to updated standards
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Manually looking up terms and industry-to-industry references
Easily understand requirement relationships between standards with over 39 million in-line links for industry-to-industry references
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Accessing standards in siloed locations
Find all standards in one location as a single source of truth
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Disorganized collaboration with no point of reference
Collaborate using direct links to documents, pages, and phrases
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Annotating hard copy standards by hand
Organize and annotate standards on the platform
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Facing challenges without expert support
Consult with subject matter experts, get world class 24/5 customer support, and access customized trainings
Trusted by a global customer base
ITS BRILLIANT! Really easy to use and nearly always finds the documents I seek. If you search by words of expressions, it will almost always find what you need.
Matt Murphy WSP Group
It has every official document imaginable, and it loads quickly.
Paul Caldwell Pratt & Whitney and Belcan
I find what I am looking for when I need it. No waiting for a response, confirmation, etc.
Wayne Hubbard BAE Systems, Inc
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