LOTAR choose Jotne EPMT for PLM Interoperability

Work has been ongoing for a number of years within LOTAR to address the digital archiving of 3D CAD parts with associative manufacturing information. This next step involves understanding the requirements and developing the approach for long-term archival of PDM or product structure data and this is where Jotne’s expertise will be applied.

The work that Jotne will be performing for the LOTAR team will address the need for Long Term Archiving and Baseline definition of PDM data ‘as designed’. PDM/PLM data often defines the product structure as the system of parent-child relationships that characterizes the component hierarchy for an aircraft or other manufactured products. The Jotne work will help the LOTAR members describe the product structure of a mature design that may be delivered to manufacturing organizations to create aircraft products and eventually used for archival.

Jotne will be working with the team as a whole and individual companies to help them answer the key following questions in order to optimize and standardize their data retention process in regards to product structure:

• Why are we archiving the data?
• What are the business requirement?
• What are the regulatory requirements?
• Are there beneficial Organizational Requirements?

Jotne will be coordinating to find the answers to these questions for the LOTAR members and implementing the first pilot of a standards based approach to solving this complex problem. By taking this next step, LOTAR International with Jotne’s help will enable aerospace companies to start considering the full extent of their digital data when addressing their archival challenges.