ASTM Compass®
One Platform. All of Your Content.
Digital Access to ASTM Content Plus Dynamic Workflow Tools
Providing you 24/7 online access to the content developed by ASTM’s worldwide network of experts, ASTM Compass® helps you ensure safety, improve quality, and gain a competitive advantage. Add your content, partner content, and more.
You’ll search and refine searches using your native language and quickly find the standards you need to use in your industry. Instantly access any of ASTM’s 13,000+ standards, as well as AASHTO, AATCC, API, AWWA, CGA, IES, UNE, and UOP.
Combining these ASTM standards with 1,500+ books and 47,000+ articles and papers, Compass provides you one of the most comprehensive libraries of technical information available in the world. With tools to add notes, attachments, and even your own standards, you’ll be able to work smarter and faster.
Why ASTM Compass?
Access What You Need, When You Need It
Build a customized ASTM Compass® license to meet your team’s needs and improve productivity with:
Easy access to the standards you choose
Tools for adding notes, images, and attachments
Sharing functions to help pass on and preserve corporate knowledge
Color-coded highlighting that identifies changes to standards
ASTM training modules and videos
Translated standards
Access to the thousands of papers and books in the ASTM Digital Library
Custom workflow tools to tag parts of standards, compare versions, and more
One Resource for All Your Content Needs
Standards
13,000+ Standards
Collaboration Tools
Multiple Language
Translations
Third-Party Content
Digital Library
1,500+ Books
15,000+ Journal
Articles
47,000+ Papers,
Chapters, and Articles
Training
Online and OnDemand Courses
Demonstration Videos, Checklists, and Self-Testing
Learning Management System
ASTM SpecBuilder
Develop Your Internal Specifications
Streamline Collaboration and Communication
Reference and Hyperlink Other Standards
Custom Workflow Tools for Standards Users
Revolutionize the way you use standards with tools to help you work more efficiently, reduce research time, and ensure compliance.
Compass Points
Tag Parts of Standards: Collaborate, Propagate, Directing Your Teams to the Authoritative Source
Compass Points gives smart users the ability to pinpoint important components in standards, building a breadcrumb trail to that source data for multiple purposes—it’s an easy-to-adopt step towards smarter standards.
Data is growing exponentially in industry. We designed Compass Points to help you keep order and assure data integrity.
Manage your team standards data with change alerts
Reduce risk with alerts that will inform your team when a standard is updated. Each Compass Point includes the standard publisher, standard number and title, creator’s contact, date, time plus notes and overlays. Users can name the Point to associate with a project code, part number, or process ID for easy retrieval. A spreadsheet view by standard and by account makes it easy to sort your standards data.
Preserve organizational knowledge
With a unique and permanent data ID, you’ll ensure information shared amongst colleagues is retained, protecting your organization against lost knowledge. Compass Points are kept in perpetuity for every version of standards from ASTM, ASME, API, AASHTO, ENs, and others.
Features of Compass Points:
Every Compass Point is programmatically enhanced with useful metadata
Easily add overlays, differences, departures, exceptions
Share your Compass Points with your colleagues to collaborate
Embed the links in your internal systems: e.g., LIMS, PLM, requirements management, and ERP
Name your Compass Points semantically according to project code, part number or process ID for easy retrieval
Ease data hunting during audits or look backs with a connection to your saved Compass Points
Version Comparison
Save time, money, and manpower with color-coded highlighting to help instantly identify changes to standards. With the version comparison tool, users can quickly see any changes to a standard since its last publication.
Video Standards
Get access to 300+ high-quality featured videos providing live demonstrations of your standards. Quickly onboard new staff to properly execute test methods. Retrain existing teams with changes to test procedures.
Digital Access to International Standards
Explore a broad array of standards from leading standards development organizations such as AASHTO, AATCC, API, AWWA, CGA, IES, UNE, and UOP, without leaving the Compass platform.