Development Plan: Application Protocols for Mechanical Parts Production. NationalPDES Testbed Report Series

摘要

The Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data (STEP) is being developed asan international standard. The National Product Data Exchange using STEP (PDES) Testbed was established at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) specifically to address the development and testing of STEP, and to serve U.S. industry in its use of the standard. An Application Protocol (AP) is a specification for a subset of STEP data that can be implemented in an application system. The APs for Mechanical Parts Production effort will produce an early example of APs being used together in an operational prototype. This effort will develop, fully test, validate, and deliver a set of APs to the STEP Production Cell application systems which support the following: detailed design, process planning, and numerical control programming. The document describes the plan for developing and validating a series of three APs required as input to the STEP Production Cell. The resultant candidate APs, that will be submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for inclusion in the standard, will have been validated and thoroughly tested prior to their submission.