Plm and Xml White Paper

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Open product lifecycle data sharing

using XML

white paper:

PLM XML

The manufacturing industry is demanding unprecedented levels of interoperability

between PLM software applications to help accelerate critical business process

threads and achieve significant cost savings and time to market advantage. PLM XML

from EDS boosts interoperability by defining a set of W3C standard XML schemas and

associated services to facilitate open, high-content, product lifecycle data sharing.

PLM XML

Table of contents

Executive summary 1

Vision and objectives 1

PLM XML explained 2

PLM XML schemas 3

PLM XML characteristics 3

PLM XML in action - pipeline,

toolkits and services 4

PLM XML pipeline 4

PLM XML toolkits 5

Data adapters 5

Representation handlers 5

PLM XML in the enterprise 6

PLM XML for interoperability 6

PLM XML for collaboration 7

PLM XML for integration 8

PLM XML and standards 9

Summary 9

Table of figures

Figure 1 : PLM XML vision -

high-content data flow between

application domains 1

Figure 2 : A PLM XML document

fragment 2

Figure 3 : A PLM XML schema

fragment and tree hierarchy 2

Figure 4 : PLM XML services

populate and exploit the PLM

XML pipeline 4

Figure 5 : PLM XML jumpstart

application showing a crankshaft

example 5

Figure 6 : PLM XML facilitating

interoperability between

applications 6

Figure 7 : Flexible PLM XML

payload provides appropriate

levels of detail 7

Figure 8 : PLM XML in support

of enterprise application

integration 8

Interoperability issues within and between organizations using software applications to conceive, develop, engineer, manufacture,

and maintain products cost industry billions of dollars annually. Initiatives to improve interoperability in heterogeneous applica-

tion environments are therefore of vital importance, and consumers are demanding unprecedented levels of interoperability

between PLM software applications to help accelerate critical business process threads, increase ROI, and augment time to

market advantage.

Executive summary

Vision and objectives

PLM XML is a set of W3C standard XML

schemas and associated services to facilitate high-content product lifecycle data

sharing using XML. EDS already provides

and supports the highly successful representation pipelines which link authors and

consumers of the open Parasolid XT solid

model format and the visualization JT

format. To enable broader, flexible interoperability across key PLM applications,

PLM XML is designed to bring together

product structure, product information,

part representations and metadata in

a lightweight, Web-friendly standard

format, suitable for transferring high-

content product data across the Internet.

The functional objectives of PLM XML

are to:

* Orchestrate product structure, product

information and geometric representation data in an open, lightweight and

extensible form

* Share relevant information through

the product lifecycle by offering a

standardized protocol for data

interoperability

* Integrate collaborative product lifecycle

processes by providing a coherent flow

of data within a heterogeneous application environment

Inventory

management

Concept

Engineering

Product

design

Corporate

EAI backbones

Digital

validation Manufacturing