WWW를 이용한 제품정보의 공유

Abstract

Life cycle product data is very important yet difficult to handle for manufacturing companies. Shoring and exchanging product data over world-wide-web is a part of key technology to implement PDM or CALS. STEP is widely accepted as a standard to represent the life-cycle product model data. Described in this paper is a web browser plug-in that can graphically display and explore product data represented by STEP over internet. By the use of the plug-in (named "npSTEP"), a product model data stored in STEP format on a web server can be displayed on a commonly used web client (browser), such as Netscape navigator, without any format conversion process. Furthermore one can explore the components or attributes of the product model data in hierarchical manner.