SCRA Applied R&D’s PDES, Inc. (founded for Product Data Exchange using Standard for the Exchange of Product model data), is pleased to announce the recent publication of six new standards generated by the LOng Term Archiving and Retrieval (LOTAR) team – an affiliated, international PDES, Inc. project. The standards were published through the Aerospace Industry Association (AIA) and the National Aerospace Standards (NAS) organization in the NAS9300 series.

“For over 20 years SCRA’s PDES, Inc. program has made advancements in model-based standards for global industry,” said SCRA CEO Bill Mahoney. “These new standards will further enable value chains for both discovery and enterprise, and carry on the strong tradition of excellence that SCRA brings to technology development.”

These newly published standards were developed in an effort to help design and engineering enterprises retain their 3-D product definition in an application-neutral format that is usable and not modified over time. LOTAR standards enable the packaging of data and information for enterprise reuse and repurpose applications as well as enabling data exchange between products. The following is the list of standards published at the end of April 2012:

NAS9300-002

LONG TERM ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVAL OF DIGITAL TECHNICAL PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION SUCH AS 3D, CAD AND PDM DATA, PART 002: REQUIREMENTS

NAS9300-005

LONG TERM ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVAL OF DIGITAL TECHNICAL PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION SUCH AS 3D, CAD AND PDM DATA, PART 005: AUTHENTICATION AND VERIFICATION

NAS9300-007

LONG TERM ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVAL OF DIGITAL TECHNICAL PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION SUCH AS 3D, CAD AND PDM DATA, PART 007: TERMS AND REFERENCES

NAS9300-100

LONG TERM ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVAL OF DIGITAL TECHNICAL PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION SUCH AS 3D, CAD AND PDM DATA, PART 100: COMMON CONCEPTS FOR LONG TERM ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVAL OF CAD 3D MECHANICAL INFORMATION

NAS9300-110

LONG TERM ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVAL OF DIGITAL TECHNICAL PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION SUCH AS 3D, CAD AND PDM DATA, PART 110: LONG TERM ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVAL OF CAD MECHANICAL 3D EXPLICIT GEOMETRY INFORMATION

NAS9300-115

LONG TERM ARCHIVING AND RETRIEVAL OF DIGITAL TECHNICAL PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION SUCH AS 3D, CAD AND PDM DATA, PART 115: EXPLICIT CAD ASSEMBLY STRUCTURE

These standards are available for sale through the AIA/NAS Standards web page: www.aia-nas.org.

About SCRA

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SCRA is an applied research corporation with over 29 years of experience delivering technology solutions with high returns on investment to federal and corporate clients. To fulfill our mission, SCRA has three sectors: Our Technology Ventures sector helps early-stage companies to commercialize innovations and create jobs, our Applied R&D sector manages over 100 national and international programs worth over $1.5 billion in contract value and our R&D Facilities sector builds and manages research facilities that include wet labs, secure rooms for sensitive work and advanced high-tech manufacturing shops. Multiple economic output studies show SCRA’s cumulative impact on South Carolina’s economy to be over $14 billion, and that the company has helped create approximately 15,000 technology-related jobs in SC, with wages averaging between $55,000 and $77,000.

About PDES, Inc.

PDES, Inc. is an international consortium, managed by SCRA Applied R&D, which promotes the digital enterprise through the development and implementation of model-based standards. The consortium is made up of members from global industry, government and academia that commit resource hours to projects of interest to the member organizations. Projects include Model Based Engineering, Model Based Manufacturing, Model Based Sustainment (via LOTAR), Data Exchange Testing, and Information Standards. The members gain hands-on experience in using the standards and implementing them within their organization and also have access to product testing, standards experts, standards tools, and vendor products. SCRA has served as the host contractor for PDES, Inc. since its inception in 1988.