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PDE 2009
The 11th NASA-ESA Workshop on Product Data Exchange was held at Boeing's Kent Space Center, 29 April - 1 May 2009
Hosted by the Boeing Company
2009 Theme: Collaboration in a Heterogeneous World

CONTENTS

• Scope
• Objectives
• Topics
• PDE 2009 Agenda (Excel)
• PDE 2009 Agenda (PDF)
• Presentations
• Communication
• Committees
• Contacts
• Past Participants
  (A partial listing of agencies, industrial partners, and academia who have participated in the PDE Workshops in past years.)

The NASA/ESA Workshop on Product Data Exchange has also been known in previous years as "The STEP for Aerospace Workshop" and "The Aerospace Product Data Exchange (APDE) Workshop". For information and download of presentations from previous workshops, please visit http://step.nasa.gov.

We continue to build on the heritage of ten highly successful annual workshops, alternating between the US and Europe. Over the years the workshop scope has evolved from focusing on a number of ISO 10303 / STEP (related) data exchange standards to a broad range of data exchange and data sharing technologies and standards that enable efficient and effective product life cycles (PLM) for complex systems and facilitate collaboration between organizations and disciplines.

The program will be similar to previous PDE workshops: an opening evening reception followed by three days of presentations, plenary keynotes and discussions, networking opportunities, and "birds of a feather" meetings. Further information regarding the program will be made available on the workshop website.

OBJECTIVES

• To bring together developers, implementers and users of product data exchange and data sharing solutions, and to share experience obtained in development, implementation, deployment and operational use.
• To provide an international forum to discuss methods and technology for the reliable capture, management, exchange, sharing and long term archival of product/system information, especially through the use of open standards.
• To identify or showcase interoperability standards and technology for product lifecycle management of complex systems, including cross-fertilization between solutions developed in different industry sectors.
• To identify gaps where new solutions need to be developed — or where existing ones need to be extended — and to bring together the people to foster such initiatives.
• To promote development and adoption of open standards for model-based systems engineering — improving the specification, acquisition, design, analysis, verification, validation and operation of complex systems through the use of executable models (executable in a simulation environment).

TOPICS

• Open standards as enablers for multi-disciplinary integrated product development teams and advanced engineering analysis and simulation:
  • Collaborative "e-engineering" scenarios / "virtual product models"
  • Advances in robust industrial CAD, CAE, CAM, systems engineering, and PDM interoperability based on open standards such as ISO 10303 (STEP) and OMG specifications (e.g. MDA, PLM Services, and SysML), and architectural frameworks (e.g. DoDAF/MoDAF)
  • Linking systems engineering, mechanical design (mCAD), electrical design (eCAD), software design, analysis & simulation (CAE, discrete event, real-time, communication links, virtual reality, ...), manufacturing (CAM), assembly, integration & testing, logistics, deployment and operation
  • Linking standards for product data and life cycle processes (workflows)
  • Shared or open electronic dictionaries, catalogues and reference data libraries — including issues regarding their operation, maintenance and intellectual property rights
• Reliable long-term archival and re-use of product data for complex systems
• Awareness and application of underlying standards and software technology that enable efficient product lifecycles, e.g.:
  • Data modeling, transport and APIs: STEP EXPRESS, UML2/OCL/XMI, XML/XSD, REST, web services, ...
  • Advanced software architectures, automated transformations and code generation: OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA), MOF/XMI, QVT, ...
  • Reference data, ontologies, semantic web: PLIB, ISO 15926, RDF/OWL, ...
• Joining open standards with the open source software (OSS) development model for cost-effective implementations that avoid vendor dependencies
• Success stories and lessons learned in developing, implementing and/or using open product data exchange and data sharing standards
• Sustainability of open solutions, including total cost of usage/ownership, stakeholder win-win mechanisms, and balancing openness versus business viability and competitive advantage.

VENUE

The workshop venue was:

COMMUNICATION

Information concerning NASA/ESA PDE Workshops is distributed via the (low-volume, moderated) pde-announce mailing list. To subscribe please go to:
http://lists.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/pde-announce

COMMITTEES

NASA and ESA Organizers

Advisory Panel

CONTACTS

Committee Organizers / Local Organizer

PAST PARTICIPANTS

This is a partial listing of agencies, industrial partners, and academia who have participated in the PDE Workshops in past years.

1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
2. European Space Agency (ESA)
3. DoD
4. CNES
5. JAXA / ISAS
6. Boeing
7. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
8. Northrop Grumman
9. Rockwell Collins
10. Raytheon
11. Airbus
12. Mentor Graphics Corp
13. C&R Technologies
14. CostVision, Inc.
15. CSTB
16. DATAKIT
17. EADS-Astrium
18. EADS-ST
19. Engineous S/W
20. EuroSTEP American, Inc.
21. Georgia Institute of Tech
22. University of Michigan
23. University of Illinois
24. University of Manchester, UK
25. HDF Group
26. InterCAX
27. Jotne EPM Technology
28. KAIST
29. Korea Adv Inst of Sci & Tech
30. Kubotek USA
31. Lascom
32. LkSoft
33. Maya Heat Transfer Tech
34. Cadence Design System
35. MSC Software
36. NIST
37. OpenCascade
38. ProSTEP
39. PTC
40. SFM Technology, Inc.
41. Siemens PLM Solution
42. Simulation Strategies, Inc.
43. Shell Global Solutions
44. Tridsys
45. Volvo Aero Corp.
46. Xactium, UK
47. Analytical Graphics
48. TIBCO Software
49. BMSTU
50. PythonOCC

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