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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.

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.

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.