ePLM Interoperability ASD Strategic Standardization Group

The objective of the “Electrical Information interoperability” working group is to ensure the coordination and the consistency of all ASD standardisation activities related to electrical  information interoperability. This working group is part of the ASD SSG “Product Definition and Analysis interoperability” domain. 

The recommendations of the working group cover product information interoperability for the full life cycle of the electrical harnesses, from specifications to maintenance. This covers all the interoperability functions based on open standards, such as:

• integration between heterogeneous authoring applications (upstream, downstream, ...)
• communication with the extended enterprise or with the customers,
• visualisation,
• long term archiving and retrieval,
• data quality, 
• analytics,
• and migration.

This web page will be regularly updated.

Based on a generic life cycle of Aerospace and Defence electrical systems, the following figure describes the different Electrical models with associated information characteristics.

Nota: Same figure than for the AIA – ASD Stan LOTAR “Electrical Harness” working group

List of use cases

The following table lists the European A&D use cases to be supported by the international standards for electrical harness interoperability.

 The operational use of Electrical harness interoperability standards by the A&D industries requires the availability of:

• Business requirements of the industry,
• Use cases for Electrical information interoperability, supporting A&D business needs and priorities,
• Public test cases for Electrical information interoperability, illustrating the use cases,
• International standards for Electrical Information models (Cf. principle 2)
• International and/or European recommended practices based on use cases, detailing the implementation of the ISO Electrical information models,
• Interoperability testing of the standardized Electrical information interfaces and services of the different PLM vendors, through the participation in the CAX Implementer Forum.

(N1): Solution based on AP242 ed1 for the exchange and preservation of the CAD 3D external shape of electrical harnesses with annotations.
 (N2): Solution based on AP242 ed2 for the exchange and preservation of Electrical harness design semantic.
 (N3): Ongoing action to gather business requirements for the preparation of the AP242 5 years roadmap. 

3)    Contribution to the development and use of the NAS / EN 9300 4XX family, for Long Term Archiving and Retrieval of Electrical harness information.

The ASD SSG strategy relies on the joint AIA – ASD Stan LOTAR international project to develop the NAS / EN 9300-4XX standards for electrical harness.

The LOTAR standard will define Process, use cases, validation and verification rules for long term archiving and retrieval of electrical harness information - see LOTAR Electrical Harness Workgroup.

•  CAX IF : http://www.cax-if.org/
•  ECAD IF : http://www.prostep.org/en/projects/ecad-implementor-forum.htm