Background and History

• Both Jotne EPM Technology and Jotne EPM Consultants are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Jotne Group. This group also include other IT- and mechanical production facilities.
• The EXPRESS Data Manager database management system product line was developed by a team of engineers in Jotne EPM Consultants and this development team was then transferred to Jotne EPM Technology.

• Jotne EPM Technology offers products, consulting services and technology based upon the STEP/Express ISO 10303 Standard.

• Jotne EPM Technology has offices in Europe - Oslo, Norway and selected dealers around the world.

Jotne EPM Technology's mission is to develop and market software products based upon the ISO 10303 Standard for Product Data Representation and exchange - STEP, and Express, for use in application areas such as STEP, CALS, PSOC, PDIX, GIS, PDM and EDI. As part of the introduction of STEP-based products and technology to users, EPM Technology offers companies on-site consulting in the application and implementation of STEP and Express-based technology.

The product development is done by a team of engineers with extensive design experience from Mechanical Components and Systems, Process Control, Manufacturing Industry, Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration/Production and Automation using state-of-the-art CAx applications.

In addition, the development team employs highly experienced software architects with background in Client/Server computing, object oriented technologies and systems and database design.

Technology

The requirements specification and implementation of EXPRESS Data Manager has been part of major European R&D projects and been under development by EPM Consultants since 1989.

Jotne EPM's core technology has been developed over 6 years and is based on an Express implementation of the Express language itself.

Jotne EPM Technology is the first and only company implementing a complete database management system - EXPRESS Data Manager - designed for the storage, manipulation and access to both data models and product models according to the STEP standard.

Compared to relational as well as Object oriented database systems, this implementation gives superior performance and increased functionality for implementing Express information models.

Through EDMInterface which is a superset of 10303 Part 22 - Standard Data Access Interface, the access to Express information requires no mapping, or transformation from the conseptual Express model to the implemented model in the database.

Consulting Services

Consulting is offered to companies and organizations which require assistance in the use of Express-based technology and Products.

Examples of Product Application Areas

Manufacturing Industries such as Automotive, Aerospace, Electronics, Computers, defense, covering applications such as specifications, design, product engineering, manufacturing, logistics

Systems Integrators for the defense and aerospace industries

Pharmaceutical Industry for applications such as new drug development/applications, long term archiving, etc.

Research Programs

Jotne EPM Technology continues the extensive work done by EPM Consultants in ESPRIT research projects. These projects are partly financed by the European Community. EPM Technology has been engaged in the PRODEX project (budget is USD 10 million) which ran from July 1992 through June 1995.

PRODEX has demonstrated the use of STEP for the exchange of product data between different systems for mechanical design and analysis in the manufacturing industry. 12 European CAD and Finite Element Analysis System vendors and 5 system integrators cooperated in this effort.

Later ESPRIT projects includes VEGA, VePrim, WIT, Merci, Globeman, eConstruct and others.

Partnerships

Jotne EPM Technology is actively seeking partners for joint research, technology exchange, product development and marketing. The company seeks partners both in the US and Europe.

Company Milestones

EXPRESS Data Manager is used in several research projects throughout Europe and is in use by companies and organizations all over the world. Some Examples are: Please see some of Jotne EPMs references here.