2. What is industrial data?
• Product Definition data
– Long life span - 30-50 years
– Large, complex products, needing configuration management
• Data Warehousing
– Simpler model, data driven
• Component Libraries and Catalogues
– Different views - geometry, metadata
– Different forms of lists - explicit, algorithm, class
• Manufacturing Management data
– Factory resource and control
• Process Specification
• Underpinned by consistent terminology
• Quality and certification mechanisms
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3. Participation
• 21 P-members
• 12 O-members
• 49 A-liaisons
• 1 D-liaison
• Approximately 200 experts, attending three
working meetings a year with average
attendance of 70-120
• Increasing profile in large industry
– Commitment by US DoD, UK MoD
– Industrial seminars
– Links to major initiatives, such as DoD UID
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4. STEP - ISO 10303
• Provides structured product definition data
exchange and sharing
• Integrated information model used to support
multiple different user viewpoints consistently
• EXPRESS product data definition language
– predates UML etc
• In production use since 1995
• Independent of hardware and software
– Protects your information from IT!
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