Product Data Management Using AP203 of Step Standard
Abstract Manufacturing data needs to be shared among functional groups of an enterprise and among its part suppliers and partners. Technological data needs to be shared among different hardware platforms, different data storage devices, and variety of network architectures. A standard specification for manufacturing data is needed that can support the entire product development phases and life-cycle. This paper proposes an information system for sharing product data throughout its life-cycle. It describes how textual information of design can be integrated with geometric data based on AP203 of STEP standard, SDAI, HTML, and object-oriented Tcl/Tk. The prototype information system can modify STEP data, and display parts information and BOM using the network browser - Netscape.