Towards an infrastructure for product data technology
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Product Data Technology aims at the establishment of an infrastructure to communicate product data between CIME applications within and between industrial enterprises. To establish this infrastructure, a need exists for standards for data exchange and data sharing, such as the emerging ISO standard STEP. The development of standards should be supported by a collaboration ofR&D projects in the CIME area, and should be implemented through a joint effort of end user industry and IT industry. This is the aim of the Product Data Technology Advisory Group (PDTAG), an advisory board of DGXIII of the CEC. Information dissemination and support to industry will be realised by a collaborative effort of European PDT centres called EPDEN (European Product Data Exchange Network). Esprit project 6876 PISA (Platform for Information Sharing by CIME Applications) contributes to this infrastructure by improving the existing methodology for information modelling and implementation. The project will develop tools for information and product/process modelling, and general servers to support the communication between CIME applications, all based as much as possible on emerging standards for open systems integration.
TNO Identifier
772433
Publisher
TNO
Source title
Realising CIM’s Industrial Potential / edited by C. Kooij, P.A. MacConaill and J. Bastos. - IOS Press, 1993
Place of publication
Delft
Pages
70-81
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