ECCMA

September/October 2006 Newsletter

From the Executive Director

The agenda for the 6th ECCMA International Product and Service Cataloging Conference and Exhibition has been finalized. As you will see from the details in the agenda, this year?s conference will be packed with information and will offer a true learning experience for everyone.

If you plan on attending and have not already registered, please do so as the conference is filling up rapidly. In addition, if you plan to stay at the Hotel Hershey, we recommend you make your reservations as the number of rooms reserved for the conference is running low.

We have kept space open for last minute exhibitors but, October 13th is the deadline for exhibitor registration to ensure you are included in the conference program.

The attendee and exhibitor registration forms are available on the Conference page of the ECCMA website. There you will also find information on the surrounding areas and special events happening during the conference as well as travel, and lodging accommodations.

Any questions regarding the conference can be addressed to Peter Benson, Dan King and Amber Davis.

We look forward to seeing you in October!

Respectfully submitted,
Peter Benson
Executive Director, ECCMA

6th ECCMA International Product and Service Cataloging Conference and Exhibition
October 24-26 2006

Tuesday October 24, 2006

17:00: REGISTRATION OPENS

19:00?21:00: ECCMA SPEAKER AND ISO AWARDS DINNER

The traditional ECCMA Speaker Dinner will be combined with the ISO TC 184/SC4 awards dinner celebrating its 50th meeting. Award presenters include:

Mr. Howard Mason, BAE Systems, Chair ISO TC184/SC4,

Mr. Edward J. Sheehan, Jr., Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC),

Dr. Steven R. Ray, Chief, Manufacturing Systems Integration Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,

Mr. Robert G. Kiggans, President, Federal Sector, SCRA

Wednesday October 25, 2006

07:00: REGISTRATION OPENS
08:00-10:00: ISO panel presentation - PROTECTING BUSINESS ASSETS

Moderator: Jerry Smith, Computer Scientist-DISA

Speakers: Howard Mason, Chair-ISO TC184 SC 4
Other Speakers to be announced

This session will address how industry sectors are using the work of ISO Technical Committee 184 Sub Committee 4 (TC 184/SC 4) on creating international standards for the neutral exchange, sharing and long term retention of industrial data. These standards are most often buried deep in design and manufacturing applications yet provide a vital insurance that protects the value of a fundamental business asset throughout its life across the supply chain. The session will cover the goals of the committee, and how these goals have been realized through the cross industry implementation of international standards. The session will include a look at the road ahead with the creation of a standard for data quality, and how investment in standards can help industry to exploit innovation in information technology.

10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30-12:00 ECCMA panel presentation - CATALOGING AT SOURCE

Moderator: Peter Benson, Executive Director-ECCMA
Speakers: Rick Maison, Executive Director-DLIS; Chris Hayden, Vice President of Marketplace Operations-Quadrem.; Joe Cassel, Executive-EDS

This session will address the need for standardized metadata to support Data Integration across the Supply chain from design to disposal. The session will include an update on the NATO cataloging at source projects as well as the implementation of standards for cataloging product and service by both suppliers and buyers. The session will include a presentation on the value of data quality in general and specifically labeling metadata to create standardized descriptions that can be easily integrated into an ERP system.

12:00-13:00 LUNCH
15:00-15:30 BREAK
12:30-17:30 EXHIBIT HALL

Endeca, DISA, DLIS/AC 135, Oniqua, PartNET, PARTsolutions, PDES Inc., PiLog/Starnode, sparesFinder, and Stibo Catalog

This is an opportunity to visit with application and service providers from a range of companies that provide solutions that support the implementation of ISO standards. These include application integration and interoperability, cataloging, data cleansing, spend analysis, inventory rationalization, material and service master management, parts management and sourcing.

13:00-17:00 ECCMA CONTENT STANDARDIZATION COUNCIL MEETINGS

The ECCMA Content Standardization Councils are industry groups responsible for the development of eOTD Identification Guides and terminology that support the needs of their specific industry sectors. Currently the Natural Resources Industry and the Services Industry Councils have indicated that they will be conducting meetings to review the progress of their work.

19:00-21:00 DINNER AND CHOCOLATE TASTING

Wednesday October 25, 2006

ISO STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT MEETINGS

ISO standards developers will be meeting in regular working group sessions. A detailed meeting schedule for the day is available at the meeting office; a short list of the meetings is as follows:

ISO 10303 Manufacturing Implementers Forum: This session consists of a joint meeting between the WG3 T24 (Manufacturing) standards developers and the implementers of the manufacturing application protocols (AP) of ISO 10303. The meeting will include a review of automotive industry AP238 implementation testing and AP239 demonstrations.

WG3 T8 (Furniture): Continued development of ISO 10303 application protocols for the furniture industry.

WG3 T22 (Building and Construction): Discussion of issues relating to building and construction as well as building services, piping and civil engineering in NWI 241 on life cycle support.

WG12 Shared Resources - Modules: Review of shared resources development and coordination to include meetings on parametric modules for ISO 10303 AP203 Ed 2.

WG3 T23 (Shipbuilding): NSRP project reports, implementation forum, part libraries, integration of lifecycle data, joint meeting with T 22 building and construction.

SC4 Maintenance Agency: Review of procedures for the maintenance of SC4 standards as databases.

Thursday October 26, 2006

ECCMA WORKSHOPS

08:00-10:00

Moderator: Pieter Styrdom
Speakers: Linda Wedderburn; Lorinda Linde; Steven Arnett

a. eOTD Cataloging : A workshop focusing on the fundamentals of cataloging products and services using the eOTD to include preparing the data, adding the class, identifying properties and abstracting property values, including a demonstration of the community edition of the eOTD Catalog builder.

Moderator: Don Hillman
Speakers: Gerry Radack; Doug Erickson; Wynand Nortje

b. eOTD data models: A technical workshop on the eOTD data models designed for application developers wishing to integrate the eOTD into their applications. The workshop includes a review of the eOTD Web Services interface and will include worked examples.

10:00-10:30 BREAK

10:30-12:00

Moderator: Chris Haydon
Speakers: Rob MacEwan; Ed Sitver; Pieter Styrdom

c. Managing a data cleaning project: A workshop focused on discussing strategies for costing and managing projects to clean and maintain material, service and vendor masters.

Moderator: Peter Benson
Speakers: Doug Erickson; Don Brown

d. ECCMA Global Item Registry: A review of the EGIR and the ECCMA Stock Number (ESN), including bulk upload and web services integration. The workshop will also address integrating the ESN into an ERP system as externally hosted characteristic data. Time permitting the workshop will also address managing diminishing manufacturing sources, including using characteristic data to define functional equivalence.

12:00-13:00 LUNCH

13:00-15:00

Moderator: Bern Werner
Speakers: Curtis May; Doug Korneffel

e. Inventory rationalization: A workshop reviewing the fundamental expectations of an inventory rationalization project, how to design, cost and implement an inventory rationalization project. The workshop will discuss strategies for obtaining data, including a review of integrating distributed eOTD encoded XML catalogs and localization considerations. The workshop will also cover contracting for data as part of acquisition and provisioning agreements.

Moderator: Peter Benson
Speakers: Gerry Radack, Wynand Nortje; Sheron Koshy

f. eOTD Identification Guides: A workshop on the development and modification of eOTD Identification Guides using the on-line editor. Will include a review of the use of eOTD Identification guides as XML templates for cataloging and query applications.

15:00-15:30 BREAK

15:30-17:00

Moderator: Joe Cassel
Speakers: Elaine Chapman; John Andrews

g. Data quality and spend analysis: A review of procedures and processes for evaluating and managing data quality. The workshop will include applying classifications for spend analysis reporting to include a review of the relative cost and benefits of classifying vendor masters, material masters and transactional data.

Moderator: Peter Benson
Speakers: Rob Leibrandt;
Other Speakers to be announced

h. Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC): A workshop reviewing the current development in UID and RFID standards and their applications in integrating supply chain data. The workshop will review data resolution and data cashing alternatives.

Thursday October 26, 2006

ISO STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT MEETINGS

ISO standards developers will be meeting in regular working group sessions. A detailed meeting schedule for the day is available at the meeting office; a short list of the meetings is as follows:

WG3 T22 (Building and Construction): Update from IAI on harmonization - Options for the development of AP 241 in cooperation with IAI.

WG3 T25 (Oil, Gas, Process and Power): Discuss proposal for ISO 15926 OWL representation.

WG3 T24 (Manufacturing): Joint meeting with SC1/WG7 Data Model for Machine Tool life cycle CNC Traceability Demonstration and discussion CNC control of tape laying for composites.

WG13 (ISO 22745): Open technical dictionary - review of dictionary and identification guide UML models, catalogue UML model, dictionary XML model, identification guide XML model, catalogue XML model.

WG3 T23 (Shipbuilding): Structural implementers? agreements, distribution implementers? agreements, outfit and furnishing approach.

WG3 T9 (Engineering Analysis): Modularization and Extension to Fluid Dynamic and Thermal Analyses Application of classification to analysis and composites, EXPRESS Binary Representation.

Important International Standards that Protect the Separation of Data from Software Applications to be Reviewed in Hershey, PA October 22-27, 2006

The Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) is hosting the 50th meeting of ISO TC184/SC4 in Hershey, Pennsylvania from October 22nd through October 27th 2006 at the Hotel Hershey. There is a full agenda covering the application of ISO 10303 (STEP) in building and construction, oil, gas, process and power, as well as in manufacturing, shipbuilding, engineering analysis and furniture. The meeting will also include the new work on ISO 8000.

Bethlehem, PA (PRWEB) September 14, 2006 -- ISO Experts and delegates from over fifteen countries will be converging on Hershey, Pennsylvania on October 22nd to agree on changes to the ISO industrial automation standards that include Standards for the neutral exchange of Product Data and ISO 8000 the new standard for data quality. Engineers, buyers, supply chain managers and their data integration experts are invited to meet the standards developers on Wednesday October 24th and Thursday October 25th, 2006 at the Hotel Hershey.

Ever wondered where standards come from? The International Committee responsible for the development of international standards that protect industrial data is scheduled to meet in the Pennsylvania heartland at the Hotel Hershey from October 23rd through October 27th. The committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of key international standards that lie hidden at the heart of industrial design and manufacturing systems. Known as STEP, the Standards for the Exchange of Product Data, these standards protect industrial data by providing a neutral standard for the exchange of data between competing software applications.

With an ever increasing amount of information created and stored only in electronic form, many businesses do not fully understand the risks they are taking with one of their most valuable assets, their data. As we upgrade our computer systems and the software applications we use, we are often faced with transferring our data to new media and upgrading our data in order to be able to read it in the new applications. With simple documents and spreadsheets this is not very challenging yet we have all experienced lost formatting and the need to manually ?fix? errors in the new document. In design and manufacturing systems this is exponentially more difficult and the introduction of errors of exponentially greater consequence. With computer assisted design and manufacturing systems at the very heart of a company?s fundamental internal infrastructure and a determining factor in its ability to communicate and work with others, it is not hard to see why theses standards are so critical.

Beyound ISO 10303 the Standard for the Exchange of Product Data the commitee has also started work on ISO 8000, a new standard for data quality.

The committee meets every four months and is not scheduled to meet again in the USA until late 2007. The Implementers forum and ECCMA workshops are open to the public subject to a daily registration fee of $225.

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Industry Prepares for the Next Jump in Internet Technology

The ECCMA conference in Hershey, PA starts October 25th 2006 and will focus on ISO standards that are set to change supply chain management and dramatically increase the speed and accuracy of web search engines. The standards are based on a little known $3 billion government investment in descriptive technology often described as the DNA of logistics.

Hershey, PA (PRWEB) September 15, 2006 -- ECCMA, DLIS and representatives of NATO AC/135 have been working with ISO Technical Committee 184, Subcommittee 4 (ISO TC 184/SC 4) on ISO 22745, a standard for the maintenance and application of open technical dictionaries as metadata registries. Coded metadata represents the building blocks needed to create unambiguous language independent descriptions and is the key to the cataloging system. The group has also been working on ISO 8000, a new standard for data quality that address the issues of registered metadata and data provenance, critical aspects to long term data retention.

It has been five years since the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) and the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) first met at an ISO meeting in San Francisco. They subsequently agreed to work together on the conversion of the Federal Cataloging System into an open international standard. In 2004 the NATO Allied Committee 135 (AC/135) entered into an agreement with ECCMA to leverage the expertise and support from the international NATO codification community.

ISO TC 184/SC 4 was chosen by the group as it is responsible for the key international standards that lie hidden at the heart of industrial design and manufacturing systems. These standards protect vital industrial information by providing a neutral format for the exchange of data between competing software applications.

ECCMA member companies expect both ISO 22745 and ISO 8000 to have a rapid impact on electronic commerce and supply chain management. The conference will feature workshops on implementing the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary (eOTD) and the associated XML schemas for cataloging templates and encoded data exchange.

The conference will bring together international product cataloging experts, catalog users from government and industry, leading cataloging application and service providers as well as members of NATO and ISO experts and delegates from over thirty countries. Given the synergy between the groups it will be a truly unique event and ECCMA is honored to host the 50th meeting of ISO TC 184/SC 4 at its annual meeting in Hershey.

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