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The ASTM Advantage ASTM Compass® Standards Development and Membership Training and Learning Management System Proficiency Testing Programs ASTM SpecBuilder Tools and Resources to Maximize Your Competitive Advantage International Laboratory Directory

The business advantage of using standards to improve the safety, quality, and performance of your products is clear. Following standards can lower costs, minimize errors, and reduce redundancy and time-to-market. But the benefits go well beyond simple adherence. You’ll see a greater competitive advantage when you take measures to expand your organization’s knowledge of and involvement with standards.

In today’s complex global marketplace, you need every advantage you can get.

At ASTM we’re about more than just providing you with industryleading standards. We’re about a robust, enterprise-level, family of services built to help strengthen your organization so you can achieve and maintain the highest level of performance and responsibility.

ASTM SpecBuilder Create and maintain internal specifications, codes, and regulations with ease using this advanced online collaboration tool. ASTM Compass® Guarantee you're always using the most-up-to-date standards and latest research. And provide your staff with powerful workflow tools to help them manage and react to industry changes. Standards Development and Membership Help develop best-in-class standards that are used worldwide. Network with your peers, competitors, and customers. Training and Learning Management System Don't just comply with standards, ensure your staff...

“It’s helpful to be able to perform a search and find the standard you are looking for quickly. A secondary feature that is helpful is to see all of the standards that might reference the one you are looking for.” Beth Mayo-Yurek Management/Quality Engineer, Granite Construction Stop struggling to keep up with rapidly changing standards, revolving staff members, training inefficiencies, and a loss of institutional knowledge across your enterprise. It’s time for ASTM Compass - the single, centralized standards solution that provides fast, accurate, comprehensive access to the standards and...

Improve Productivity and Communication Through Powerful Workflow Tools ͽ Add notes, images, and attachments ͽ Create workgroups and share standards and annotations ͽ See color-coded highlighting indicating changes to standards ͽ Cross-link directly from your organization’s specifications to ASTM standards ͽ Access the Membership Dashboard listing all ASTM members within your organization ͽ “Compass in a box” available for customers who require access behind their corporate firewalls ͽ Online usage statistics (COUNTER compliant) ͽ MARC record

“I think it’s had a positive impact on my professional career. I look at the things that I’ve done, the people I’ve met, the things that I’ve been able to be on the front edge of rather than trying to play catchup, and I think ASTM has helped greatly with that.” Dale F. Bohn Regional Quality Manager, Flint Hills Resources LP Standards Development As one of the world’s largest international standards developing organizations, we provide the opportunity for businesses, governments, and individuals to collaborate openly and transparently. Stakeholders from more than 150 countries come to ASTM...

On a personal basis, I think you could sum it up with one word, and that’s ‘networking.’ At any given time at the twice-annual ASTM meetings, I’ll have 40 or 50 customers present. Literally, I can see 20 customers in four days, and I can’t do that anywhere else.” Tom Marsh President, Centrotrade Minerals & Metals Inc.

“These courses are promoted by my company as a way to continue education. I always learn something new from them and they definitely add to personal enrichment.” Attendee, ASTM Crude Oil Training Course Accessing standards is just the beginning of a strong standardization strategy. Getting your staff to understand and use them properly is how you set your company apart. You'll quickly and continuously improve your staff's consistency, confidence, and credibility with focused, practical training from the experts - and not just any experts, but the experts who wrote the standards. Flexible...

Automate Your Training Program With the ASTM Learning Management System Easy to use at both the management and employee levels, this centralized tracking system will integrate every aspect of your training program into a single, online system, allowing you to: - Say goodbye to spreadsheets and manual tracking - Assign and monitor team development online - Create individualized development plans - Easily view and evaluate employee progress - Eliminate training discrepancies or redundancies - Receive notifications when employees need retraining - Stay current with automatic updates to...

4,600 laboratories - 52% of which are international -participate in the ASTM Proficiency Testing Program. For some laboratories, accessing standards and knowing how to use them is enough to move ahead of their competition and reach the top of their industry. But for others, accreditation and proving proficiency is the ultimate method of achieving a competitive advantage. Prove You’re the Best With the Best For more than 25 years, the ASTM Proficiency Testing Program (PTP) has helped thousands of laboratories evaluate, improve, and document their proficiency - providing clients and...

ASTM offers 45+ different programs across many industries including: - Aromatic Hydrocarbons - Cement & Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL) - Electrical Insulating Liquids - Engine Coolants and Related Fluids - Octane Testing - Petroleum Products - Plastic Film - Plastics - Metals - Textiles Don’t allow your lab to spend one more unproven moment. Proficiency testing from ASTM is convenient, cost-effective, and created specifically by the authors of the standards.