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Singapore is a key hub in the development of the global information and knowledge economy. Part of the developing e-Business capability in Singapore is the Construction and Real Estate Network project (CORENET).

BARBi is a project initiated by the Norwegian construction industry to establish a reference data library with a complete collection of all concepts and objects from the building and construction industry with associated properties and relationships.

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.

The UK MoD is keen to adopt the use of commercial standards and is one of the founder members of Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) Inc, a consortium of inter-national companies and government defence organiz-ations, which is seeking to extend STEP to embrace the information exchange requirements for the in-service and disposal phases of a product life-cycle.

Japan Marine Standards Association (JMSA) has developed AP226 Ship Mechanical Systems Prototype in its Ship/STEP sub committee. This implementation is focused on the pump and heat exchanger elements of ship machinery.

Due to the relatively small market in Australasia, the survival and prosperity of the Australian Defence Industry will rely heavily on its ability to connect and interact digitally with both local and overseas companies. The market place for the defence industry is international; business oppor-tunities are global; access is now global, and competition is global.

Find out why the world leaders are upgrading to EPM solutions within the latest Collaborative Product Com-merce (CPC) technology supporting ISO standards, JAVA' and other Internet applications.

The US Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) recently demonstrated the exchange of vehicle inform-ation between different product data management (PDM) systems in the automotive industry.