SEDRES: Developing the Emerging STEP standard for Systems Engineering

Published 2001-06-20

Within the Systems Engin-eering discipline across the majority of industry sectors there is an increased require-ment to transfer data across company, international and environment boundaries. A standard is essential to simplify and improve the quality of System Engineering information exchange.

Sedres Europe has initiated and driven this work with the joint-support of the European Commission and partner companies via the SEDRES project (ESPRIT Project 20496), which ended in March 1999.

This resulted in AP-233 (Application Protocol 233 "systems engineering"), an on-going initiative within ISO/STEP dealing with the standardisation of System Engineering data.

Since January 2000, this initiative has been supported by the follow-on project SEDRES-2. The SEDRES-2 mission statement is to extend, validate and standardise the Systems Engineering (SE) data model and nurture its practical imple-mentation and multi-sector exploitation as a key enabler for the competitiveness of European industry.

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