The National PDES project at NIST is focused on the development and implementation of the emerging international standard for the exchange of product model data (STEP). One subproject within the testbed is the effort to establish an application protocol development environment (APDE). This report documents the requirements for an APDE. The requirements provide guidance as to what capabilities and APDE should provide. The requirements described were derived from the experiences of current application protocol developers.
The objective of this report is to present the strategic plan for the Factory Automation Systems Division. The explosion of new information technologies and new manufacturing methods such as concurrent engineering, with the corresponding requirements for data interface standards, has made it clear that the Division must reevaluate its present status and develop a strategy that will bering the Division's research and development activities in line with the future needs of U.S. industry.
A vision of 21st century manufacturing is presented in terms of the implementation of the "virtual Enterprise" and the use of Multi-Enterprise Concurrent Engineering. The vision is based on reports published by the National critical Technologies Panel, the Agile Manufacturing Forum, and the new government Advanced Manufacturing Initiative.
The National PDES Testbed project at NIST is focused on the development and implementation of the emerging international Standards for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP). One subproject within the Testbed is the effort to establish an Applications Protocol Development Environment (APDE). This report documents the specifications for an APDE. The specifications describe were derived from the requirements described in an earlier report.
The National PDES Testbed project at NIST is focused on the development and implementation of the emerging international Standard for the Exchange of Product Model data (STEP). One sub-project within the Testbed is the effort to establish an Application Protocol Development Environment (APDE). This report describes the architecture of a prototype system which will be built at NIST to demonstrate some of the features needed in an APDE and some approaches to providing these features. This demonstration system will focus on a specific step in the AP development process, namely ARM interpretation. The functionality demonstrated is based on specifications documented in an earlier report.
The NIST Algorithm Testing System (ATS) is a software package for evaluating the performance of geometric fitting software. This report is a user's guide to the ATS. This user's guide documents the detailed description of the system operation.