Objective
The Advanced Information Technology for Design and Manufacturing (AIT) consortium was formed in the autumn of 1993 by 17 European automotive and aerospace companies. Their goal is to outline their requirements to make efficient use of innovative information technology. According to the requirements defined during the AIT pilot phase, AIT-IP capitalises on emerging object oriented concepts such as those defined by the STEP and OMG committees. AIT-IP proposes futher to implement a platform supporting integration business cases found today in the design, engineering and manufacturing processes of AIT partners.
The main objectives are:
- to analyse and evaluate potential solutions,
- to implement an open, interoperable integration platform for design and manufacturing, expandable to other industry sectors,
- to validate the implemented platform on a pilot site.
The expected benefits are:
- A greater reactivity in adapting design and manufacturing operations by offering a more flexible IT environment.
- Significant reduction of the integration costs. AIT- IP will provide an integration platform allowing transparent product data exchanges over multiple underlying environments and supporting multiple data models.
- Shorter production cycles will be ensured by eliminating the need to transfer data between services or sites through ad hoc gateways, mail or other ways. - Application plug and play mechanisms will be offered, adding extra flexibility and providing native application interoperation.
- Company wide data and process sharing will be possible, supporting the modern concepts of the virtual and fractal enterprise.
- Master data and processes heterogeneity. AIT-IP will allow, when required, a homogeneous view of heterogeneous data and processes.
- The international standards STEP and CORBA are the basis for most of the work in this project and we will contribute to their further development.
Risk assessment and exploitation of the results have been important concerns for this project. The IT vendors will deliver compatible and interoperable prototypes, which will be demonstrated in a publicly accessible demo.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering manufacturing engineering
- natural sciences computer and information sciences data science data exchange
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70546 Stuttgart
Germany
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