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Dr. Martin Hardwick
President and CEO
Dr. Martin Hardwick founded and incorporated STEP Tools, Inc. in
1991. Dr. Hardwick supervises the Model Driven Intelligent Control of
Manufacturing program, known as the "Super Model" Project,
which is supported by an Advanced Technology Program (ATP) Award
issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST). This program is focused on developing STEP-NC, a breakthrough
technology for manufacturing. Hardwick is also a Professor of Computer
Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and
is a Member of the US Product Data Association. Martin has authored
numerous papers and articles on engineering database systems, STEP,
PDES, and concurrent engineering. He has traveled internationally to
present numerous public lectures on these topics. Dr. Hardwick is the
team leader of the STEP Manufacturing group. He is currently working
on two government projects: 1) the Harvest program from the National
Shipbuilding Research Program, and the 2) WSME (Web-based Smart
Modeling Environment) project for the U.S. Naval Sea Systems
Command.
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Dr. Dave Loffredo
Vice President of Product Development
Dr. David Loffredo is a co-founder of STEP Tools, Inc. and serves
as Vice President of Product Development. Dr. Loffredo has been
developing engineering software that supports the ISO 10303 STEP
standard since 1988. He is editor of the AP-238 integrated STEP-NC
model and is also Convenor of ISO TC184/SC4 Working Group 11, which
develops the STEP implementation methods. He has contributed to the
harmonization of STEP GD&T efforts, design of the STEP file exchange
format and the STEP Data Access Interface (SDAI) specifications.
Dr. Loffredo received PhD and Master of Science degrees from
Rensselaer, and Bachelor of Science degrees in both Physics and
Computer Science from the State University of New York. He has
authored various technical papers and articles on EXPRESS, STEP,
STEP-NC, concurrent engineering, product data exchange, and
engineering database systems.
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