Objective The objectives of the project are to validate and improve the CAD-LIB approach; stimulate the practical use of this approach through developing a complete set of pre-industrial tools; contribute to the final standardisation work through the demonstration of the concepts; and prepare pre-normative specifications as input to European and international standardisation.The portability of parts libraries is a major economic concern for CAD system users, component manufacturers and for CAD system vendors. To allow such portability, a whole set of concepts, known as the CAD-LIB approach, has been developed in Europe. This set of concepts is based on the experiences gained using proprietary solutions and national standards that fulfilled only portions of the end-user's needs. These concepts constitute the agreed basis of the European and international standardisation work (CEN/TC310-pr ENV 40004 and ISO/TC184/SC4-ISO 13584). The project aims to strengthen the position of European industry in the parts library market will be strengthened through: - the development of three pre-competitive library management systems which support the new capabilities resulting from the CAD-LIB approach and the migration from previous proprietary or standardised systems - the development of a complete description of the components of a part supplier - the development of know-how about the CAD-LIB approach among the project partners As a result of the project it will be possible to demonstrate: - the interactive generation of a parts library - the exchange and automatic integration of this library by three library management systems related to different CAD systems - the benefits for the user of such systems resulting from the CAD-LIB approach. Exploitation of the project results will be through: - marketing of commercial library management systems and parts library generation tools, based on the new approach - generation and integration of standards in this field. Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator VW-GESELLSCHAFT FÜR TECHNISCHE DATENVERARBEITUNGSSYSTEME Address Pascalstraße 11 10587 Berlin Germany See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all INA Wälzlager Schäffler KG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Industriestraße 1-3 91074 Herzogenaurach See on map Matra Datadivision France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 31 avenue de la baltique 91961 Les ulis See on map SEAT S.A. Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Sector a, calle 2, 1-25, 740 08080 Barcelona See on map SGAO France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 8 rue henri becquerel 92508 Rueil-malmaison See on map TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLAUSTHAL Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Robert-koch-strasse 32 38678 Clausthal-zellerfeld See on map École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 109 site du futuroscope 86960 Futuroscope See on map