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FACILEX® STANDARDS & PRACTICES

Standards & Practices Management Software

Drawing on extensive experience supporting industry-wide engineering standards and recommended practices programs, Gateway developed FACILEX® Standards & Practices to manage the complete standards development lifecycle—from initial proposals and technical committee collaboration through review, approval, publication and periodic revision.

The solution is designed for standards-development organizations, professional associations, industry consortia and corporate engineering authorities that require structured governance, controlled documentation and traceable decision-making.

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Publishing a standard is the outcome of a complex technical governance process.

Developing an industry standard requires contributions from subject-matter experts, manufacturers, operators and other stakeholders. Proposals move through technical drafting, committee reviews, comment disposition, approval and controlled publication.

When work is coordinated through email, spreadsheets and disconnected repositories, it becomes difficult to establish which draft is authoritative, whether comments are resolved and who has approved publication.

The challenge continues after release: editions must be reviewed, updated, reaffirmed, superseded or withdrawn while preserving their history.

?   Your standards program must answer:
  • Who proposed and authorized this work item?
  • Who is responsible for technical review and approval?
  • Which draft and supporting references are current?
  • Have comments and objections been resolved?
  • What publication approvals remain outstanding?
  • When is the next periodic review due?
1

Committee Governance

Coordinate contributors, reviewers and approval authorities.

2

Revision Control

Preserve working drafts, prior editions and approval history.

3

Technical Consensus

Track comments, objections and dispositions.

4

Publication Readiness

Manage editorial tasks, signoffs and release packages.

5

Portfolio Visibility

Track schedules, overdue reviews and publication status.

6

Knowledge Preservation

Maintain authoritative records and controlled editions.

A configurable eight-stage approach from initial proposal through ongoing maintenance. Committee rules and publication authority remain with the standards organization.

1
Propose
Initiate a new standard or revision request.
2
Screen
Evaluate scope, need and sponsorship.
3
Authorize
Approve work and assign a technical committee.
4
Develop
Prepare drafts and supporting references.
5
Review
Circulate drafts and collect comments.
6
Resolve
Disposition comments and obtain approvals.
7
Publish
Complete editorial checks and release an edition.
8
Maintain
Review, revise, reaffirm or withdraw as needed.
1

Work Item Intake

New standards, updates, interpretations, reaffirmations and withdrawals.

2

Configurable Reviews

Technical, editorial, committee and management approvals.

3

Comment Management

Assigned responses, resolutions and traceable closure.

4

Document Assembly

Controlled drafts, attachments and publication packages.

5

Standards Library

Metadata, identifiers, editions and superseded records.

6

Program Reporting

Dashboards for deadlines, outstanding actions and milestones.

Designed for organizations that develop and maintain technical knowledge.

1

Industry consortia

Collaborative engineering and construction practices, including programs such as PIP.

2

Standards-development bodies

Committee-driven programs comparable in complexity to ISO, ASME and ASTM.

3

Professional associations

Technical guidelines, recommended practices and industry publications.

4

Corporate engineering authorities

Internal technical standards and engineering specifications.

5

Technical working groups

Cross-company collaboration and expert review.

6

Publication administrators

Approved editions, records, metadata and controlled catalogues.

Adapt to your existing consensus, approval and publication rules.

FACILEX® provides configurable information and workflow controls. It does not confer accreditation, replace formal consensus requirements or independently verify technical correctness.

More than a document repository.

FACILEX® can connect proposed standards, committee assignments, technical comments, action items, controlled drafts and approved editions in one traceable lifecycle. Integration with existing publication or repository systems can be evaluated where needed.

1
Action Item ManagementAssign and close technical issues, comment resolutions and editorial tasks.
2
Procedure & Document ManagementMaintain drafts, approved versions and publication records.
3
Audits & AssessmentsEvaluate process adherence and governance improvements.
4
FACILEX® CONNECTConnect existing repositories or publication systems where appropriate.

From proposal to publication—and back through revision.

FACILEX® Standards & Practices supports technical governance and knowledge continuity through configurable lifecycles, controlled records and transparent responsibilities.

Bring us your standards-development process.

Gateway can help map your committees, reviews, ballots, revisions and publication controls to a configurable FACILEX® workflow.