Engineering Workbench Professional
Use AI to locate, understand, and implement standards, codes, and regulations
EWB Professional is the recognized industry leader for integrating standards and technical content into your engineering workflow. Powered by AI (semantic search, machine learning, natural language processing, document understanding, and information retrieval), Engineering Workbench Professional surfaces the knowledge you need in seconds, pulling from the world’s largest collection of specs and standards.
7,500+ industry leaders worldwide are growing with us
Partnering with 450+ Standards Publishers Worldwide
EWB Professional solves for common use cases and pains across engineering workflows
On average, 66% of engineering projects fail. Engineers must:
Locate, understand and implement standards and codes
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2.8M
industry standards
links between standards that reference each other
technical articles, journals and books
patents, patent applications, utility models, and abstracts
users worldwide
years advanced AI technology development
KEY BENEFITS
Benefits Across All Engineering Functions
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Key Features
Research Assistant
Smart Search
Section-Level Get Link
Smart Compare Premium
Micro-Alerts
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Key Features
Research Assistant
Filter through millions of standards, codes, and technical documents in seconds with Accuris’ virtual subject matter expert: Research Assistant. This AI feature connects engineers to information quickly: simply type your query into the search box and find the answer you need. Research Assistant uses machine learning and natural language processing to understand your question, search Accuris’ curated engineering content library, group search results into logical categories, and present answers to you.
Smart Search
This new feature takes AI-enabled search inside a standard document, far beyond traditional search methods. When asked a question like “How to test for cycle fatigue in COPVs?”, Smart Search uses natural language processing to locate the requirement, constraint, or specification inside the standard – and highlights the sections relevant to your query. Engineers using Smart Search spend 70% less time searching for information within a document than those using traditional search methods.
Micro-Alerts
Micro-Alerts is a new feature that takes the power Smart Compare to the section level. While Smart Compare will show you all changes at the document level, Micro-Alerts will automatically notify you when a passage you’ve highlighted has changed, showing you side-by-side comparisons at the section level. Highlight a section, paragraph, or sentence within a standard and click the bell icon to set up a Micro-Alert for that section. When anything within that highlighted section changes, you will receive an automatic alert, linking you to the section within the standard and showing you what has changed.
Section-Level Get Link
Building on the Get Link feature in Engineering Workbench, EWB Professional offers Get Link at the document level and at the section level. Now you can create links to sections, paragraphs, or sentences within a document, then copy the link and paste into another part of your workflow. Engineers will often paste the Get Links inside audit documents to easily trace requirements back to their sources, or share Get Links with teammates to refer them to relevant sections of a standard. When you use the link in the future, Engineering Workbench always will take you to the exact section in the specific version of the document.
Smart Compare Premium
Publishers update standards frequently, and the revisions and releases of new standards need to be accounted for in engineering workflows, projects, and processes. Smart Compare Premium provides intelligent auto-comparisons between versions of standards. Compare different versions of standards side by side and filter changes for insertions, deletions, and other edits to focus on the most impactful changes to your workflow.
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We have two solutions for your standards workflow: Engineering Workbench and Engineering Workbench Professional. We’ll work with you to decide which is best for your business.
Standards, Patents, and Much More
- 2.8M Standards, Codes, & Specs from Global Partners
- Over 36,000 Technical Reference Sources
- 76.5 Million Resources Indexed
- 107+ Million Patent Solutions
A cloud-based library with 8,000+ manuals, handbooks, reference books, and more – covering topics across industry sectors and technical fields.
27 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
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
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, 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
- Full-Text Content
- 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)
- Index-Only Content
- 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
Download the Engineering Journals & Vetted Technical Reference brochure
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.
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
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.
Add-Ons
Add-On Features
Internal Standards Solutions
Without a robust standards management solution, integrating internal and industry standards in complex projects can result in disorganization, missed changes, compliance risks, and quality issues. Our Internal Standards Solutions (ISS) consolidates internal and industry standards into one platform, empowering engineering leaders to mitigate risks related to quality, safety, and compliance. Unlike traditional methods such as mail, email, proprietary portals, or in-person delivery, ISS within EWB enables real-time document sharing with suppliers and monitoring of usage compliance.
Tailored Training and Support with EWB Consulting
Interested in a dedicated support consultant, small-group trainings and consulting services for Engineering Workbench? Learn more about EWB Consulting, which connects your business with an EWB expert experienced in engineering processes and standards applications.
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