Engineering Workbench
Powering
Digital Transformation
in Engineering
Accuris Engineering Workbench (EWB) drives digital transformation by centralizing the world’s largest collection of engineering standards, codes, regulations, and technical knowledge in a single intelligent platform. Built on the trusted IHS legacy, EWB combines AI-powered search, automation, and collaboration tools to streamline compliance, improve traceability, accelerate research, and scale knowledge across teams. According to Forrester (2024), organizations using EWB achieve a 305% ROI with payback in under six months—transforming how engineering teams find, apply, and trace critical information.
7,500+ Industry Leaders Use Accuris to Power Engineering Workflows
Working with 450+ Standards Publishers to Power Engineering Decisions
Trusted by the top 20 A&D and Oil & Gas companies across the globe.
Engineers at the world’s largest companies use Engineering Workbench to access standards, manage knowledge, reduce risk, and stay ahead of change with the largest repository of standards (including aerospace, oil and gas, mechanical, materials, chemical, civil engineering, and all other disciplines). This platform supports teams that need to ensure safety and compliance in their projects by providing the most up-to-date standards, regulations, guidelines, and other critical knowledge in an AI-powered platform to fuel digital transformation.
“I find what I am looking for when I need it. No waiting for a response, confirmation, etc.”
“It has every official document imaginable, and it loads quickly. ”
“IT’S 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. ”
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The Future of Engineering Knowledge
Save 75% of time managing standards and knowledge in a centralized platform
Stay compliant, enhance traceability, and reduce costly technical rework by 10%.
Reduce research time by 20%, automate manual workflows, and streamline collaboration.
2.8M
KEY BENEFITS
Benefits Across All Engineering Functions
Make faster, more confident design decisions using trusted, up-to-date standards. Access standards in one place to guide early-stage concepting, reduce rework, and ensure design requirements are fully aligned from the start.
Ensure traceability and alignment between standards, requirements, and specifications. Surface the right information in a centralized platform, share and embed digital links to standards content, and maintain alignment with evolving constraints throughout the engineering lifecycle.
Reduce compliance vulnerabilities by embedding current standards into every step. Stay ahead of regulatory and industry changes with automatic updates, version comparisons, and tools that help engineers stay aligned and audit-ready.
Quickly find and apply the requirements that matter. EWB Professional helps engineers identify, categorize, and reference requirements across industry standards - reducing manual effort and improving traceability with automation and digital linking capabilities.
Ensure procedures are built on trusted standards. EWB Professional helps teams align processes with the latest industry standards by making critical content easy to find, reference, and embed across engineering workflows.
Reference the right standards to support quality workflows. EWB Professional gives teams quick access to the most up-to-date standards - helping improve consistency and reduce vulnerabilities in quality procedures.
Respond to standards and regulatory changes with confidence and speed. Track updates at the section level, compare multiple versions, and assess the impact of change on design, production, and compliance workflows.
Fuel faster concept development with connected technical knowledge. Research across patents, publications, standards, and lessons learned to validate ideas early, solve problems faster, and reduce time from concept to execution.
Centralize engineering knowledge across your organization. Access and link to global industry standards, patents, journals, eBooks, and technical publications in one trusted platform - improving knowledge utilization, sharing, and traceability across teams, programs, and tools.
How it Works
- Access and Manage Engineering Knowledge
- Research with Precision and Speed
- Extract and Utilize Critical Knowledge
- Improve Traceability and Collaboration
- Stay Up-to-Date and Compliant
- Capture and Share Decisions
Access and Manage Engineering Knowledge
Centralize industry standards, codes, regulations, patents, and other technical content in one trusted platform.
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Research with Precision and Speed
Cut research time with intelligent AI search and automated requirements identification.
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Extract and Utilize
Critical Knowledge
Extract and apply insights from engineering documents for faster, more informed decisions.
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Improve Traceability
and Collaboration
Create digital threads to knowledge and embed into other applications for future reference.
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Stay Up-to-Date
and Compliant
Track updates and compare revisions of standards content as it is updated.
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Capture and
Share Decisions
Annotate and share decisions, comments, clarifications and other information inside standards.
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Support Every Stage of the Engineering Lifecycle
From searching for answers to embedding knowledge, EWB supports the workflows behind real engineering work.
Smart Features That Accelerate Discoverability, Traceability, and Action
Smart Search
View Requirements
Research Assistant
Section-Level Get Link
Smart Search
Micro-Alerts
Smart Compare Premium
Smart Features That Accelerate Discoverability, Traceability, and Action
- Research Assistant
- Smart Search
- Micro-Alerts
- Section-Level Get Link
- Smart Compare Premium
- View Requirements
Research Assistant
An intuitive, AI-powered tool for exploration and discovery. Research Assistant helps engineers quickly find the information they need – even when they don’t know which document to search. This semantic search engine surfaces the most relevant standards, codes, and technical content – reducing search time and guiding both new and experienced engineers to the answers that move work forward.
Smart Search
Smart Search uses semantic search AI to locate precise requirements, constraints, and specifications within complex technical documents. Instead of reading through PDFs or guessing keywords to search, engineers ask a question and Smart Search highlights the most relevant sections instantly – cutting research time by 20%.
Micro-Alerts
Track what matters. Micro-Alerts notify you the moment a specific section of a standard changes – so you can respond faster and stay compliant. Just highlight a paragraph or sentence, set an alert, and get notified when that exact content is revised. No more manual tracking or version guesswork – just automatic, targeted change visibility where it counts.
Section-Level Get Link
Create traceable links to exact sections, paragraphs, or sentences within standards – and embed them into audit trails, design docs, PLM systems, and other models and applications. Engineers use Get Link to preserve decision context, streamline collaboration, and build a digital thread back to standards and other source documents for traceability across the engineering lifecycle.
Smart Compare Premium
Compare any two versions of a standard and filter by change type to focus on what matters most. Highlight insertions, deletions, structural edits, or grammatical edits and create shareable links to the exact sections that impact your work. Smart Compare Premium helps teams stay informed of updates, improve change processes, and reduce using outdated requirements and standards.
View Requirements
For select standards, View Requirements automatically highlights and categorizes requirements, prohibitions, and guidance – making it easy to identify requirements and apply the content that matters most.
Engineers save up to 90% of the time typically spent identifying requirements, while improving accuracy when defining requirements from an industry benchmark of 70% to over 90%.
It reduces review effort and ensures greater consistency across teams working with complex documents.
Standards, Regulations, Patents, Journals, Internal Knowledge, and more
- 2.8M Standards, Codes, & Specs from Global SDOs
- Regulatory Content
- 36,000+ Technical Reference Sources
- 77 Million Resources Indexed
- 107+ Million Patents & Solutions
you’re supporting a single team or enabling enterprise-wide engineering workflows, EWB Professional delivers the right
content at the right scale.
Access the world’s most trusted standards in one platform with an Engineering Workbench account – built to
support critical workflows from design through compliance.
- 2.8+ million global standards, codes, and specs
- Includes content from 200+ leading publishers, SDOs, NSBs, and Tier 1 manufacturers
- Supports workflows across design, quality, compliance, and systems engineering
Accuris partners with trusted SDOs including:
- AASHTO
- ACI
- AIA/NAS
- ANSI
- API
- ASHRAE
- ASME
- ASTM
- AWS
- AWWA
- BSI
- CSA
- DANISH
- DIN
- GM
- ICAO
- ICC
- IEC
- IEEE
- IPC
- ISA
- ISO
- NACE
- NEMA
- NFPA
- NORSOK
- SAE
- Standards Australia
- TIA
- UL
- And hundreds more
Access one of the most comprehensive databases of defense-related technical content to support engineering,
maintenance, and lifecycle decisions across complex systems.
Includes:
- 800,000+ active U.S. DoD military specs, standards, and related documents
- Historical mil specs for legacy system support and lifecycle traceability
- 8,500+ active and 34,000 total U.S. DoD-adopted standards from 60+ SDOs
- U.S. Naval Instructions and Directives
- U.S. Army Regulations and Pamphlets
- UK Ministry of Defence
- French Ministry of Defense
- Aerospace & Defense Industries Association of Europe (ASD-STAN)
Access critical standards, specs, and regulatory content from international government agencies and aviation
authorities – all available through Engineering Workbench via web interface or XML integration.
Includes content from:
- NASA
- NATO
- NRC Canada
- U.S. Federal Construction Regulations (FCR)
- U.S. 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, and guidance
- Select U.S. regulatory content for A&D from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), directives,
and guidance
Benefits:
- View regulations, guidance, and standards side by side in a single platform
- Get daily updates and automated alerts when regulations change
- Discover cross-referenced content with hyperlinks between standards and regulations
- Surface rules and requirements directly from regulatory documents using AI-powered tech
Now available in EWB
Titles from the U.S. CFR:
- CFR Title 10 – Energy
- CFR Title 14 – Aeronautics and Space
- CFR Title 15 – Commerce and Foreign Trade
- CFR Title 21 – Food and Drugs
- CFR Title 29 – Labor
- CFR Title 30 – Mineral Resources
- CFR Title 33 – Navigation and Navigable Waters
- CFR Title 40 – Protection of Environment
- CFR Title 42 – Public Health
- CFR Title 43 – Public Lands: Interior
- CFR Title 45 – Public Welfare
- CFR Title 46 – Shipping
- CFR Title 49 – Transportation
- CFR Title 50 – Wildlife and Fisheries
Guidance material for Oil & Gas from:
- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
- Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Explore a cloud-based library of 8,000+ manuals, handbooks, and reference works curated for engineering personnel across disciplines. EWB gives teams quick access to trusted content from leading publishers and subject matter collections – all in one searchable platform.
Content from 27 trusted publishers:
- AMACOM
- AOCS
- ASM International
- ASTM International
- AWWA
- Chemical Publishing Company
- Clarion
- CRC Press
- DEStech Publications
- Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
- Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET)
- Industrial Press
- ISA
- IT Governance
- Maney Publishing
- McGraw-Hill
- Oxford University Press
- PACKT Publishing
- SAE International
- SPIE
- Springer
- Synapse
- Technology Perspectives
- Trans Tech Publications
- John Wiley & Sons
- World Scientific Publishing Company
Covering 19 engineering and technical disciplines:
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Biomedical
- Chemistry and Chemical
- Civil
- Computer
- Earth Sciences
- Electrical
- Electronics
- Engineering Management
- Environmental
- Food Science
- Industrial
- Industrial Safety
- Life Sciences
- Mechanical
- Metallurgy and Materials Science
- Oil and Gas
- Software
A robust technical reference platform designed for engineers, AccessEngineering provides searchable access to trusted handbooks, manuals, and textbooks – enhanced with instructional videos, interactive charts, and tools for faster application in real-world scenarios.
Includes DataVis™, an interactive visualization tool that lets users compare and evaluate properties and criteria side by side – accelerating analysis and decision-making across materials, systems, and processes.
Access a wide range of Springer’s professional eBook collections, curated to support specialized domains with in-depth technical content.
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
- Law Collection
- Materials & Steel Collection
- Oil, Gas & Geosciences Collection
- Telecommunications Collection
Access 50+ trusted titles focused on the design, installation, and operation of pressure vessels – supporting safety, compliance, and performance in high-pressure systems.Featured publishers include:
- ASM International
- ASTM International
- Chemical Publishing Company
- CRC Press
- DEStech Publications
- Maney Publishing
- Oxford University Press
- Trans Tech Publications
- John Wiley & Sons
Explore a deep index of technical research, publications, and data sources from leading organizations. The Expert Index Collection includes both full-text content and indexed references, helping engineers discover critical insights from across the global knowledge landscape.
Full-text access available from:
- ArXiv.org
- clinicalTrials.gov
- DSpace@MIT
- Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
- Hindawi Publishing Corporation
- IEEE GlobalSpec
- NASA Tech Briefs
- NASA STI Articles
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- OSTI
- ResearchWorks at the University of Washington
- Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)
Indexed content from top sources including:
- AIAA – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- ANS – American Nuclear Society
- ASABE – Agricultural and Biological Engineers
- ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- ASM International
- ASQ – American Society for Quality
- ASTM International
- Begell House
- Crambeth Allen (ePTQ, hydrocarbonchina)
- Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences
- Energy Institute (EI)
- FABIG – Fire and Blast Information Group
- IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IAPD – International Association of Plastics Distribution
- ICAO – International Civil Aviation Organization
- IUCr – International Union of Crystallography
- IOP – Institute of Physics
- IChemE – Institution of Chemical Engineers
- InterRegs
- Maney Journals
- MATDAT Materials Database
- McGraw-Hill AccessScience
- NFPA – National Fluid Power Association
- OnePetro.org
- PICMG – PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group
- PLASA
- PNAS – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- ProjectEuclid@Duke University
- PubMed
- Royal Aeronautical Society
- SAE International
- JSAE – Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan
- SIAM – Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- SAMPE – Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
- SPIE – Society for Optics and Photonics
- Springer for R&D
- SpringerMaterials Database
- Techniques de L’Ingénieur
- Total Materia by Key to Metals
- Transportation Research Board
- TWI
- Wiley Journals
Search and explore one of the world’s largest engineering patent libraries with full-text access and dynamic summaries across global jurisdictions.
Includes coverage from:
- United States: Granted patents (since 1971) and applications (since 2001)
- Europe: EPO granted (1981–current) and applications (1988–current)
- United Kingdom: Granted patents and applications (1970s–current)
- Germany: Patents, applications, and utility models (1970s–current)
- France: Granted patents and applications (1976–current)
- Japan: Abstracts (since 1976), granted patents (1994), and applications (1993)
- China: Granted patents, applications, and utility models
- WIPO: PCT publications (since 1978)
A centralized dashboard for analyzing global patent activity across technologies, companies, and inventors. Extract actionable insights with capabilities designed to help engineers make faster, more informed R&D and IP decisions.
Capabilities of this feature include:
- Semantic analysis of 107M+ patents
- Patent Search: Filter by number, assignee, inventor, title, or abstract
- Language-neutral summaries in English, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese
- View original documents in text or PDF formats
Evaluate patent activity surrounding a specific technology and monitor its evolution over time.
Use this feature to:
- Track patent filings across up to 5 assignees
- Analyze inventor activity and class distribution
- Understand lifecycle and saturation level
- Find leading contributors and emerging areas of innovation
Build innovation profiles for individual companies or compare multiple organizations to uncover research focus, R&D investment patterns, and competitive positioning.
This service delivers insights on:
- Core technology trends
- Key inventors and class concentration
- Trend-based R&D behavior
- Citation anomalies and innovation focus areas
Trace a patent’s influence across the innovation ecosystem by mapping forward and backward citations.
Use this to:
- Understand the “pedigree” of a patent via backward references
- Spot innovation barriers and licensing opportunities with forward citations
- Locate highly cited, high-impact patents early in their lifecycle
Create a personalized research environment tailored to your workflow.
Capabilities include:
- Saved Searches and Scheduled Alerts
- Personalized Dashboards and Homepages
- Project-Level Organization of Search Queries and Analysis
Save, organize, and collaborate on patent research by topic, technology, or project.
Use workspaces to:
- Group search results under shared topics and projects
- Track evolving innovation landscapes
- Collaborate with peers or export findings into external systems
Trusted by Engineers Solving Complex Challenges
Energy
Sasol’s Energy Revolution
Aerospace & Defense
Business Jet Manufacturer Saves $50K Per Day
Aerospace & Defense
Hamble Aerostructures Prevents Multi-Million Dollar Problems with EWB and ESDU
Hamble Aerostructures, an Aernnova company, uses Engineering Workbench and ESDU to ensure aerostructures meet safety and weight targets for aircraft such as the Airbus A350 and Racer Helicopter.
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Engineering Workbench vs Engineering Workbench Professional
Engineering Workbench
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View and download standards
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View auto-generated standard summaries
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Follow linked references between documents
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Share links to documents
Automated Alerts
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Alerts when standards change
Automatic Comparisons
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Compare current and superseded standards
Personalize
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Bookmark and annotate documents
EWB Professional
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View and download standards
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View auto-generated standard summaries
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Follow linked references between documents
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Share links to documents
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Share links to sections or requirements
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Share links to comparisons
Automated Alerts
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Alerts when standards change
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Alerts when sections or requirements change
Automatic Comparisons
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Compare current and superseded standards
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Compare any revision of a standard
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Filter comparisons for relevance
Personalize
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Bookmark and annotate documents
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AI search within a document
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AI agent to enable research
Requirements
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Automatically identify requirements
Add-Ons
Advanced Solutions for Digital Transformation
Digital transformation for engineers starts here—faster research, smarter workflows, and connected knowledge.
Accuris Thread
Automate the extraction, comparison, and export of requirements from select standards, regulations, and internal documentation. Adding Accuris Thread to EWB Professional saves teams up to 90% of time and boosts accuracy to 90% – streamlining traceability and integrating structured requirements into PLM, ERP, and other applications.
With Thread, you can:
- Automatically extract, enrich, and compare requirements
- Export and integrate digital requirements into PLM, ERP, and modeling tools
Thread extends EWB Professional into a complete solution for finding, extracting, and threading requirements.
Internal Standards Solutions (ISS)
While EWB Professional gives you access to the world’s most trusted external standards, adding ISS transforms your solution into a centralized hub for all engineering knowledge – internal and external, without limits.
With ISS, you can:
- Securely upload and centralize internal engineering documents and share them across teams
- Monitor changes with watchlists and micro-alerts
ISS turns fragmented knowledge into connected intelligence.
Engineering Workbench FAQs: Standards, Compliance, and Digital Transformation
What is Engineering Workbench (EWB), and how does it support standards usage?
How is EWB different from other standards repositories?
Can EWB help with knowledge management?
How does EWB support digital transformation in engineering organizations?
What makes EWB a “smart standards” platform?
How does EWB improve traceability for organizations?
What is the role of AI in Engineering Workbench?
AI powers many of EWB’s capabilities, including semantic search for documents and inside of documents, automatic requirements identification, and smart comparisons between document revisions. These capabilities help engineers save time, reduce errors, fill knowledge gaps, and work more confidently with complex standards and requirements.
How does EWB support compliance and requirements usage?
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