PDES, Inc. - Accelerating STEP Implementation

STEP Technology - Neutral Data Integration



	What's New?
		Registration for the Spring 2008 PDES, Inc. Offsite and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting April 7-10, 2008 in Charleston, SC is now open

		PDES, Inc. presented the 2008 William J. Conroy Standards Professional Award on March 3, 2008 at the ISO TC184/SC4 meeting in Louisville, Kentucky

		PDES, Inc. is pleased to congratulate ISO/TC 184/SC 4 for receiving the prestigious Lawrence D. Eicher Leadership Award at the 30th ISO General Assembly held in Geneva, Switzerland

		Dr. Gerald Radack of Concurrent Technologies Corporation Named Winner of 2007 International William J. Conroy Standards Professional Award

		Jim Lorenz of Rockwell Collins Named Winner of 2007 Brad Rigdon Technical Management Award

		*Jack Harris of PDES, Inc. presents STEP Supports the Digital Enterprise* at the 2007 SME Conference**

		John Zimmerman of Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies Named Winner of 2007 Bryan K. Martin Technical Excellence Award

		Jack Harris of Rockwell Collins announced as new PDES, Inc. General Manager

		Program Plan for 2006-2008 Team Schedules


	WHITE PAPERS: STEP/ISO 10303 Could Keep Archived Digital Product Data Accessible Incompatible Software Makes Past Design and Manufacturing Data Unreadable

	Recent STEP Reports:
	Standardizing the specification, verification, and exchange of product geometry: Research, status and trends (pdf - 1.6MB) Date: June 2007 Author: Vijay Srinivasan
	A Scheme for UIDs and PLCS (pdf - 754KB) Date: 05-10-2006 Author: Mike Ward
	STEP Application Handbook ISO 10303 Version 3 (pdf - 2.81MB) (zip - 2.19MB) Date: 6-30-2006 Author: SCRA
	Analysis of Standards for Lifecycle Management of Systems for US Army --- a preliminary investigation (pdf - 8.04MB) (zip - 7.64MB) Date: 8-30-2006 Authors: Sudarsan Rachuri, Sebti Foufou, and Sharon Kemmerer

	Recent PLCS White Papers:
	Standards-based PLM: Re-engineering the Aftermarket with PLCS Part 1, Business Benefits (pdf - 594KB) Date: 2007 Authors: John Dunford & Peter Bergström (Eurostep) John Stark (John Stark Associates)
	Standards-based PLM: Re-engineering the Aftermarket with PLCS Part 2, Technologies and Deployments (pdf - 406KB) Date: 2007 Authors: Peter Bergström & John Dunford (Eurostep) John Stark (John Stark Associates)

PDES, Inc. is an international industry/government consortium accelerating the development and implementation of ISO 10303, commonly known as STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data).

STEP, a key international product data technology, provides an unambiguous, computer sensible description of the physical and functional characteristics of a product throughout its life cycle.