Product Suite

EDMServer™

EDMmodelServerfor 3D and PLM
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November 2006: New Solutions to archive PLM and 3D Data
Most aerospace companies are using PLM and 3D systems since a number of years. However, how do they archive this data? Today companies have big problem to store and exchange PLM and 3D data and more importantly no solution for long-term data retention. The Jotne EPM Technology product EDModelServer for 3D and PLM data is the first one to deploy ISO 10303 (STEP), ISO 14721.4 (OAIS) and AECMA EN 9300 (LOTAR) in a harmonized way.

EDMmodelMigrator™

EDMdeveloperSeat™

EDMvisualExpress™

EDMmodelConverter™

EDMmodelChecker™

Business Partner Program

The EXPRESS Data Manager™ product suite contains all the tools you need to begin implementing the product data technology standards for the 21st century, creating and managing EXPRESS schemata, customizing data models, and establishing product-data databases and archives.

EDM is modular by design, enabling you to mix and match the products and options you want, and to easily expand or update the system as your needs change and as the standard continues to evolve. EDM products are available for UNIX or Microsoft Windows platforms.

The EXPRESS Data Manager™ products from EPM Technology are available today to meet the needs so crucial to your success tomorrow!

EXPRESS Data Manager™
     - always a step ahead!

Your company, like most in the world, is gradually moving away from managing information "on paper" to exchanging and sharing it electronically, in digital forms using the computer.

It is already quick, easy and inexpensive to transfer or access basic, everyday information via databases, E-mail, the Internet, the Intranet and the World Wide Web.

It is nearly impossible, however, to accurately and reliably exchange, share and manipulate complex, technical data about a product - its design, properties and structures, its development and history, its costs and maintenance, etc. Problems arise because:

• different systems are used to design, analyze, manufacture and document a product
• each system has its own way of representing data
• each group or organization tends to choose its own systems
• systems in use change over time, making some data inaccessible
• different hardware and software environments are a fact of computer life

This ability is considered essential for effective communication and cooperation, not only within work groups and among colleagues but with customers, suppliers, users and business partners.

It is considered absolutely critical if you want to achive and maintain a competetive advantage well into the 21st century!

Introducing EXPRESS Data Manager™...

This technology enables product data to be effectively managed, exchanged and shared across radically different systems, independent of location, type or network design. It allows access to this data throughout the life cycle of the product and ensures that the information is in a form that can be accessed and interpreted for decades to come.

Most importantly, EDM makes all product details, not just visual details, available to a variety of users during all phases of engineering, development, production, operation and maintenance. Ultimately, the EXPRESS Data Manager™ helps transform many business theories into realistic business goals; goals which will ensure a strategic, competitive edge for projects and companies, large or small:

• minimize product life-cycle costs
• provide continuous acquisition and life-cycle support (CALS)
• ensure data integrity
• collaborate in virtual or extended enterprises
• shorten product development cycles
• support concurrent product and process development
• respond with agility to changing customer needs

The EXPRESS way

The information handled by the EXPRESS Data Manager™ is contained in data models rather than in paper-based blueprints or application-specific programs, databases or texts. These models are created and defined in EXPRESS, the information modeling language specified in STEP (ISO 10303-11).

Like other computer languages, EXPRESS has a well-defined syntax, structure and set of language rules. In sharp contrast to other languages, however, in an EXPRESS-based approach to product data the models are totally independent of any underlying implementation tools.

As the foundation for EDM, EXPRESS makes it possible to link pieces of information that were once isolated from one another by incompatible formats. Together, EXPRESS and EDM make it possible to overcome one of the main obstacles to true business and process integration.