Harnessing and maximizing innovation

Manufacturing is undergoing rapid transformation, driven by changing end-user requirements and global trends. Changes to manufacturing supply chains are significant and bring a host of new opportunities as well as a range of new challenges.

The move towards a more innovative mindset is essential for manufacturers to navigate through periods of continuous disruption and to maintain growth in a fast-moving, highly complex global economy. Adopting a more innovative approach can help manufacturers to gain a competitive advantage through greater responsiveness to customer demands, faster turnaround times and reduced downtime.

Additionally manufacturers must now have a strategy in place to address sustainability. Manufacturers can increase operational efficiency, reduce operational costs, waste and their carbon footprint while embracing the circular economy through better product design.

Digital innovation can also help a manufacturer increase productivity at the same time as being more flexible and adaptive to new opportunities. Investment in digital, however, needs to deliver a return and so the manufacturer needs access to the most up-to-date good practice and standards to ensure the technologies perform as promised in line with their business strategy.

British Standards Online (BSOL) is a standard management system built with leading industry knowledge, trusted, and used by businesses globally. With BSOL you can access, view and download supply chain management, innovation, sustainability, digital adoption standards with multiple user access, across multiple sites, facilitating the distribution of the knowledge across your business.

We’ve developed a deep understanding of how organizations use standards as best practice to work more productively, advise with confidence and better manage their business.

BSOL has over 100,000 standards, over 53 pre-built sector modules.

Tailor a custom standards database of exactly what you need or take our pre-built sector modules.

What’s a Custom Collection?

A custom collection allows you to create a library of standards that you need, which means that you’re in complete control of the standards you choose. Decide exactly which standards are most important to you and build your own collection. Purchase a minimum of 25 credits and add standards to your collection as and when you need them.

What’s a Pre-built standards module?

We’ve grouped together our standards by subject to give you the complete set of standards on that specific area, rather than choosing them individually. Each pre-built standards module contains thousands of individual standards. 

Alternatively, you can subscribe to our pre-built modules and then add a custom collection to pick and choose other essential standards from the wider BSOL library or take the full collection of standards within BSOL.