PDE 2005
The 7th NASA-ESA Workshop on
Product Data Exchange (PDE)

Workshop Objectives and Topics

Objectives

• To provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of methods and technology for the reliable capture, management, exchange, and long term archival of product/system information and knowledge, especially through the use of open standards.
• To share experience obtained in the development, implementation, deployment and operational use of such standards.
• To identify or showcase PLM/SLiM interoperability standards that can be used in complex system applications, including those originally been developed for other industries.
• To identify gaps where new standards need to be developed or existing ones need to be extended, and to bring together the people to foster such initiatives.
• To encourage development and growth of open model-based methods for PLM/SLiM.

Topics for 2005

• Open PLM/SLiM standards addressing needs such as:
  • Collaboration between industrial and/or institutional partners
  • Realization and improvement of concurrent engineering and
    "e-engineering" scenarios
  • Multi-disciplinary / multi-physics design and analysis/simulation
• Advances in robust industrial CAD, CAE, CAM and PLM/PDM interoperability based on open standards such as STEP (ISO 10303)
• Dedicated sessions on PLM/SLiM standards for these domains:
  • Electronics/mechatronics, with a special focus on STEP AP210 and AP212
  • Systems engineering, with a special focus on STEP AP233 and SysML
    (the UML Profile for systems engineering)
• Linking design, simulation, and manufacturing
• Linking engineering CAD, CAE/simulation (FEA, CFD, discrete event, …), and testing
• Success stories and issues in developing, implementing and/or using PLM/SLiM
  open standards
• Reliable long term archival and usage of information for complex systems
  (aerospace, automotive, homeland security, facilities/buildings, electronics/microsystems, medical/bio, shipbuilding, and so on)
• Methods blending two or more information/knowledge technologies for PLM/SLiM purposes (e.g., “collective product models” combining STEP EXPRESS, XML, UML/MDA, and OWL)
• Joining open standards and the open source software ( OSS ) development model
  to enhance PLM/SLiM implementation (e.g., combining Eclipse with STEP)
• Web-based methods and infrastructure for PLM/SLiM
• Open solutions sustainability, including total cost of usage/ownership, stakeholder win-win mechanisms (users, open source developers, commercial vendors), and balancing openness vs. business viability and competitive advantage