Policy Recommendations for Developments in
Product Data Technology
October 1997
prepared by PDTAG-AM

PDTAG-AM
Product Data Technology
Advisory Group
ESPRIT 9049

Preface

This is the third and final report developed by PDTAG-AM on policy recommendations for developments in Product Data Technology. The previous two releases were issued in December 1995 and August 1996. Their facts and conclusions remain valid; their recommendations are still very relevant. These reports remain accessible to the PDT community by being posted on this PDTAG Web Site (see below).

The PDTAG-AM project (ESPRIT 9049) was concluded in July 1997. Therefore it was decided to give the current document a different orientation from the previous two:

It takes a longer-range viewpoint and addresses development trends and issues beyond the immediate action items which were emphasised in the earlier versions.
The report is based on the experiences gained by the PDTAG-AM Project Team in the three years of project duration. This provides an opportunity to focus on the recurring themes and unresolved issues that have accompanied the project during its lifetime.
The document is structured so that individual authors and PDTAG members take responsibility for their own contributions rather than the PDTAG Plenary Group as a whole. This is intended to allow the authors to present their undiluted personal views. All contributions together still express a representative spectrum of views shared by the PDTAG Group.

The document is composed of two principal sections on policy issues (Section 2) and PDT acceptance in industry (Section 3) plus further sections documenting the current status of PDT in European countries and by European projects. It will be helpful for orientation about the current status of PDT in Europe and the longer-range trends and recommended policies.

Jon Owen, Horst Nowacki

Editorial Board:

Reiner Anderl	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany
Alain Bézos	GOSET, France
Howard Mason	British Aerospace, UK and AECMA, Belgium
Horst Nowacki	Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Jon Owen	The University of Newcastle, UK
Nigel Shaw	EuroSTEP Limited, UK
Johan Vesterager	Technical University of Denmark

Contributing Authors:

Name	Affiliation	Section

R. Anderl	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany	2.9, 4.3
A. Bézos	GOSET, France	4.2
T. Dokken	SINTEF, Norway	3.4, 4.6
F. Garas	Taylor Woodrow Construction Holdings Ltd., UK	3.5
C. Guedes-Soares	Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal	3.8, 4.7
J. Haenisch	Det Norske Veritas, Norway	3.8
L. Heggmair	BMW AG, Germany	3.2
L. Lauro	UNINFO, Italy	4.5
E. Lebegue	Thomson CSF, France	2.3
S. Lord	Imperial Chemical Industries, UK	2.4, 3.7
H. Mason	British Aerospace, UK and AECMA, Belgium	2.2, 2.6, 3.1, 3.10
H. Nowacki	Technical University of Berlin, Germany	1, 2.1
J. Owen	The University of Newcastle, UK	1, 2.1, 2.5, 3.6, 4.9
F. Sastrón	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain	4.8, 5
H. Scheder	BMW AG, Germany	3.2
M. M. Sfantsikopoulos	National Technical University of Athens, Greece	4.4
N. Shaw	EuroSTEP, UK	2.2, 2.6, 3.9
J. Vesterager	Technical University of Denmark	2.8, 4.1
B. Wenzel	EuroSTEP Germany	2.2
M. West	Shell International, UK	2.7
G. Zintl	Siemens AG, Germany	3.3, 3.9

Layout:

Andrea Walter, PDTAG Secretariat, TU Berlin

All three papers can be downloaded from here. They are packed in self extracting ZIP archives:

Policy Recommendations, first edition, December 1995:: PostScript, Word 6.0/95, RTF
Policy Recommendations, second edition, August 1996:: PostScript, Word 6.0/95, RTF
Policy Recommendations, third edition, October 1997:: PostScript, Word 7.0/97*, RTF
*For those using Word6.0/95 a converter tool is available from here. Please download and run wrd97cnv.exe. With this tool you can easily read Word97 files with your Word6.0/95 programme.

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