STEP Tools, Inc. Participates in Major Shipbuilding Industry Briefing
Hosted by the Integrated Shipbuilding Environment Consortium (ISEC)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Belinda Jones, 860-767-9506
HiTech Marketing LLC
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STEP Tools Demonstrates STEP Data Translators at ISEC event on
April 10, 2003, at Electric Boat, Washington, D. C.
Troy, New York - April 07, 2003 -
STEP Tools, Inc. announced today it
will participate in a milestone Industry Briefing hosted by the Integrated
Shipbuilding Environment Consortium (ISEC). The event will be held at the
Electric Boat Washington Engineering Office (EB-WEO) on April 10, 2003.
The ISE project was a three-year project led by Electric Boat and Northrup
Grumman Newport News. The team consists of major shipbuilders, including
NG-SS Ingalls, Bath Iron Works, NG-SS Avondale, NASSCO, and Kverner, as
well as CAD vendors and systems integrators, including Intergraph,
NIIIP/IBM, STEP Tools, Inc. and others.
From 9am to noon, the ISE team will hold their Year Three Demonstration
and a full technical briefing of the results of the NSRP- and industry-funded
ISE project. The ISE team has developed and deployed an interoperability
infrastructure and toolset that supports the integration of shipbuilding
system technologies through the synthesis of STEP product data standards
and Web technologies. The demonstration will show data exchange and application
systems integration for the design, analysis, manufacture and disclosure of a
real (but unclassified) Navy ship. STEP Tools is a member of this consortium,
and will demonstrate STEP/CATIA translators developed by the company for this
project.
From 1pm to 2:30pm, the ISE team will hold an executive summary of the
morning presentation and demonstration. They will describe how the ISE
toolset integrates the engineering product data from the major CAD platforms
used by the U.S. shipbuilding industry, including Intergraph, Foran, Tribon,
and CATIA.
Over the past three years, STEP Tools has also spearheaded the high
profile NSRP-ASE Harvest Project along with partners General Dynamics
Electric Boat (Groton, CT) and Product Data Corporation. This project
will enable the shipbuilding industry to "harvest" the extensive development
effort put into STEP application protocols specific to the industry, and use
them to measurably improve the manufacturing efficiency of shipyards in the
United States.
About STEP and STEP-NC International Data Standards
STEP (STandard for Exchange of Product model data) is a comprehensive ISO
standard for CAD design data. STEP-NC, the manufacturing extension of this
standard, annotates the design information with manufacturing data. STEP
became a full ISO standard in 1994, and since then, all of the leading CAD
software vendors have implemented STEP data translation. It is estimated
that more than one and a half million CAD stations now contain STEP data
translators. STEP-NC is on its way to becoming a Draft International
Standard in 2003.
About STEP Tools, Inc.
STEP Tools, Inc. is a leading international supplier of professional
STEP software toolsets (based on ISO standards) for application
software developers, design firms and manufacturing companies in
diverse industries. The STEP Tools product line is used by the world's
foremost firms to leverage STEP and STEP-NC technology to facilitate
the sharing of engineering product information. Over one million end
users utilize product data applications built with ST-Developer, the
company's flagship product. The company offers a suite of software
solutions in several languages that integrate with existing tools and
database systems, and also provide cross-platform compatibility and
ease-of-use for streamlined development. The emerging STEP-NC
technology is yielding process improvements including a 35% reduction
in path planning time, a 75% reduction in paper drawings generated for
the shop-floor, and a 50% improvement in machining time for small to
mid-sized job lots. For late-breaking information, contact STEP
Tools, Inc. by calling (518) 687-2848, email: info@steptools.com or visit www.steptools.com.
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