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Interoperability Forums IntroductionThe industries invest in the development of open interoperability standards. This will provide business value only if these standards are implemented in COTS solutions with the required level of interoperability. Interoperability Forums are set up to ensure the timely deployment of interoperable COTS solutions. The figure here after summs up the principles of an Interoperability Forum:
An Interoperability Forum comprises:
Interoperability forums rely on specific procedures associating manufacturing companies and COTS PLM providers and integrators. They request a specific infrastructure to manage the test rounds (test data, quality check, statistics, etc), and specific technical facilitators, organizing the test rounds between the COTS PLM providers and integrators, and interacting with the users community. DeliverablesWhile the Interoperability forum provides the project management services, the subgroups provide the following deliverables:
Types of Interoperability ForumsAccording to their scope, open standards for product information interoperability may answer to one or several “families of use cases”: file exchange, long term archiving, visualization, integration / federation based on services, analytics, etc. Interoperability forums interact with other organizations, as shown in the next picture:
Complex A&D product information interoperability use cases rely on different types of product information (Structural, electrical systems, hydraulic systems, embedded software, etc), supported by different standards. Therefore, Interoperability Forums are classified in two categories:
List of Interoperability Forums of interest for the European A&D industries
(*): MBSE Interoperability Forum in preparation. Contacts: Adrian Murton and Yves Baudier Hosting organizations: AFNeT, prostep ivip and PDES Inc are extending the initial CAx IF Memorandum of Understanding to cover all above Interoperability Forums.
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