The NASA STEP Symposium:
Standards-Based Engineering Data
Exchange, Integration, and Management ...

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Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Location: Goddard Space Flight Center
Building 3 Auditorium

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Symposium Program


8:30 AM Keynote address
-- Larry Druffel, President, SCRA
8:45 AM Message from the NASA Office of the Chief Engineer
-- Dr. Richard Weinstein/NASA HQ
8:50 AM Introduction and Welcome
-- Steve Waterbury/GSFC
   
Introduction to STEP and PDES, Inc.
9:00 AM Overview of STEP
-- Larry McKee/IBM
9:40 AM Overview of PDES, Inc.
-- Gerry Graves/SCRA
10:00 AM Break
   
STEP Technology
10:10 AM AP 203: The Core of STEP
-- Larry McKee/IBM
10:30 AM STEPnet and the State of STEP Translator Capabilities
-- Doug Cheney/ITI
11:00 AM PDES, Inc. Projects: Implementing and Enhancing STEP
-- Gerry Graves and Larry McKee
   
11:45 AM
    - 1:15 PM
... Lunch ...
   
STEP Architectures and Applications
1:15 PM Boeing Applications of STEP (with video)
-- Dave Briggs/Boeing
2:00 PM Lockheed Martin Applications of STEP (with video)
-- Joe Davis/Lockheed Martin
2:45 PM STEP/Java/CORBA Architectures (demo)
-- Martin Hardwick/STEP Tools, Inc.
3:35 PM STEP Power Tools: CADIQ and the STEP Quality Tool (demo)
-- Doug Cheney/ITI ... Abstract available!
   
STEP into the Mainstream: Commercial CAD/CAE
4:25 PM MacNeal-Schwendler STEP Technologies
-- Gene Allen/MSC
4:45 PM Parametric Technology Corporation STEP Technologies
-- Asa Trainer/PTC
5:05 PM Toward Plug-and-Play Product Data Management:
        OMG/STEP PDM Enablers

-- Steve Waterbury/GSFC
5:30 PM Adjourn

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