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SAE Mobilus

SAE standards cover automotive, aerospace, commercial vehicles, medical, and government/defense industries. 

This database has a section to browse standards, that you can find in the links below the search box.

SAE Mobilus homepage link to standards

Once you are on the results page you can use the filters on the left.  Filters include Industries, Date Published, Topics, and Author, which are mainly the issuing committees.

You might notice that Content Types include several different types of standards. The following are the definitions SAE establishes for those types:

Material Specification: A standard detailing consensus-based, ballot-approved requirements for creation and construction of materials

Recommended Practice: A standard detailing consensus-based, ballot-approved industry ideal for procedures or configurations

Specification: Standards that define the physical packaging or mounting of avionics and cabin equipment, communication, networking and data security standards, or a high-level computer language

Supplement: Content that provides additional information for standards but are not standards themselves

Technical Standard: A standard detailing consensus-based, ballot-approved industry norms that does not fall under other standards categories

Characteristic: Standards that define the form, fit, function, and interfaces of avionics, cabin systems, and aircraft networks

Information Report: A standard detailing consensus-based definitions and guidance for the parameters used to create other standards

SAE Mobilus

SAE standards cover automotive, aerospace, commercial vehicles, medical, and government/defense industries. 

If you would like to search for a specific standard or topic, you can enter your search in the search box on the homepage:

Search bar on SAE Mobilus

Results are ranked by relevancy so make sure if you are searching for a specific standard you are formatting it correctly, e.g. AS9100 instead of AS 9100.  The results might have the same number but the ranking will be different.

Once you are on the results page you can use the filters on the left.  Filters include Industries, Date Published, Topics, and Author, which are mainly the issuing committees.

To make sure you are just getting standards, select the following in Content Type:

Content types check boxes

The following are the definitions SAE establishes for those types:

Material Specification: A standard detailing consensus-based, ballot-approved requirements for creation and construction of materials

Recommended Practice: A standard detailing consensus-based, ballot-approved industry ideal for procedures or configurations

Specification: Standards that define the physical packaging or mounting of avionics and cabin equipment, communication, networking and data security standards, or a high-level computer language

Supplement: Content that provides additional information for standards but are not standards themselves

Technical Standard: A standard detailing consensus-based, ballot-approved industry norms that does not fall under other standards categories

Characteristic: Standards that define the form, fit, function, and interfaces of avionics, cabin systems, and aircraft networks

Information Report: A standard detailing consensus-based definitions and guidance for the parameters used to create other standards

There are several features in SAE Mobilus once you select your document. In addition to the document text, if there are any datasets, they will be under the datasets tab:

Data sets in SAE Mobilus

The redlining feature will allow you to compare the standard to historical versions:

Redlining feature link

Example of redlining

You can create a free account and then select the annotation feature to highlight and add notes. If you haven't created an account already, clicking on this will prompt you to.

Annotation feature

Once you have an account, you can highlight within the document and add notes:

Add annotation text input box


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