Automating the Transition of Product Model Data Navy SBIR FY2009.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2009.1 Topic No.: N091-052 Topic Title: Automating the Transition of Product Model Data Proposal No.: N091-052-1674 Firm: ATA Engineering, Inc 11995 El Camino Real Suite 200 San Diego, California 92130-2566 Contact: Greg Antal Phone: (858) 480-2072 Web Site: www.ata-e.com Abstract: Product model data is required in different forms throughout a ship's life cycle. Despite the development of STEP standards for the exchange of model data to support design and engineering throughout the lifecycle of a product, the portions of the standard developed for the shipbuilding industry have not been developed or implemented in a way that would allow for a comprehensive bidirectional sharing of data between all of the CAD packages involved in a shipbuilding program. Identification of relevant data, its transformation, and the validation of its accuracy has proven to be very difficult. The technology proposed here will provide an open, scalable, CAD vendor neutral, expandable framework that will enable the bi-directional transfer of product model data between shipbuilders during the design and construction life cycle phases. Existing STEP standards and commercial open source toolkits will be leveraged to the maximum extent possible to facilitate broad adoption of the technology by the shipbuilding industry. In Phase I, a prototype of the framework will be developed. Realistic test case scenarios will be used to assess the feasibility of the method, identify high risk areas, and define risk reduction strategies which will be implemented in Phase II. Benefits: The technology that will be developed in this SBIR proposal will enable the bidirectional transfer of product model data between shipbuilders during the design and construction life cycle phases. This technology can have a direct significant impact on the cost and schedule of design/build cycles and greatly reduce the level of effort and errors currently associated with the transition of data from one vendor or software package to another. There is a significant near-term commercial market within the shipbuilding industry for this technology. It will be built as an open, scalable, and extensible framework which will allow it to be easily migrated to support the design/build and lifecycle processes for other industries including automotive, aerospace, and power generation. Return