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The Jotne Group may seem as if it is made up of a disparate collection of businesses, but if you take a closer look at Jotne's history and background, you will find a common thread linking them all.

After more than 15 years of extensive travel to remotely drive business in the North American market, Jotne is pleased to announce the opening of our first US office based out of Denver, Colorado in the summer of 2009.

OCCAR is proactive in supporting and developing the ASD specifications in conjunction with PLCS, says ILS/ISS Officer 1 Martin Ellacott in OCCAR-EZ. OCCAR is the French, British, German and Italian Organization for Joint Armament Cooperation.

If there is one man whose attendance was significant for the Brussels meetings earlier in 2009 addressing the launch of new S-standards, it was Carl-Johan Wilén from Saab Aerotech. As one of the original founders of the ASD S1000D standard, Wilén and Albert Grabmeier from EADS were central to the Aerospace Industries of Europe (ASD) Customer Support Committee.

Jochen Haenisch from Jotne EPM Technology was awarded the prestigious International William J. Conroy Standards Professional Award in May of 2009. This award is given each year by PDES Inc. for the individual from the technical community who has shown exceptional leadership in the development or implementation of Product Data Exchange standards.

Norway's leading provider of e-learning, Mintra AS, has been involved in several international projects which aims for new methods and systems to facilitate efficient development of advanced training and documentation solutions based on updated product data.

Jotne EPM Technology has been selected as a service provider to the LOTAR International team that is investigating and developing standards for the long-term archival of digital product data.

On September 2nd 2009 Jotne's Kjell Bengtsson presented Jotne's approach to better cooperation between members of the defense industry at the defense suppliers' forum arranged by FSi (the association for defense and security industry) and KDA (Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace).

As part of a more aggressive push into the North American market with the recent addition of the first US office based out of Denver from June 2009, Jotne is active at an assortment of events where global data product interoperability will be discussed.

Similar to PLM systems and their relationship to manufacturing, establishing a proper IT environment for buildings and their infrastructure is an important part of operations and logistics.

Massimo Bandecchi is head of Systems and Concurrent Engineering in Directorate of Technical and Quality Management at the European Space Agency (ESA) , specifically at the technical centre which is the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC). He is very clear when he says that without the standards that are now being implemented through the work of Jotne EPM Technology and others, his organisation would have significant problems reaching their defined goals.

The 12th annual NASA/ESA Product Data Exchange workshop will in 2010 be hosted by Jotne EPM Technology and held in Norway. Jotne EPMT are wishing all possible attendants an heartily welcome.

Symphony is a partnership project with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the French space organization CNES. In this project, the Open Concurrent Design Server (OCDS) solution that was developed for ESA will be deployed in the CNES concurrent design facility. In addition, the OCDS solution will be extended with new functionality as specified by CNES. The project is supported technically by Thales Alenia Space through a related contract.

CASP is an acronym for -Concurrent Approach across all phases and borders of the Space Project Lifecycle-.

At the Concurrent Design Facility in Toulouse, France, known as -CIC- (Centre d'ingénierie Concourante) the French Space Organization CNES have their PASO (Plateau d'Architecture des Systèmes Orbitaux) office. The main responsibility of PASO is managing mission feasibility studies for orbital projects. This is also the home of the Symphony project that Jotne EPM Technology is undertaking with CNES.

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Published by Jotne EPM Technology Issued: October 2009 / Circulation: 4,500