CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
28 June 2004
Company News
Eurostep Group and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Announce Partnership
Eurostep and DNV's division for Information Quality Management are working together to provide services and solutions in the areas of exchanging and sharing product life cycle data in the Defence and Oil & Gas industries.
Specifically, the parties are collaborating in defining and delivering joint projects by implementing global information standards like STEP, PLCS and POSC/CAESAR, their concepts and technologies. Both organizations have been heavily involved in key areas to bring the above mentioned standards into industrial use, and some focus areas for the partnership are Reference Data Libraries (RDL), PLCS Data Exchange Sets (DEXs) and Net Centric Warfare.
It is very interesting to see that a well known company like DNV has identified Information Quality Management as an area of business, says Hakan Karden, Managing Director of Eurostep Group. Over the life time of Eurostep we have fully supported the concept of product data as a true asset for an organization and its possibility to conduct business. The time has come to exploit standards like STEP, PLCS and POSC/CAESAR in commercial projects and I believe this partnership with DNV will be able to explore new, cost effective and ground breaking ways in managing information, ends Hakan Karden.
Eurostep is since long a leading actor in the field of information standards like STEP and PLCS and we are very pleased that we have established this formal partnership, says Petter Myrvang, Head of Information Quality Management, Det Norske Veritas. We have already started several activities where business needs in the defense industry are addressed by our two organizations. Together with Eurostep we are positioned to meet the market needs of delivering and implementing standards that will have a global impact and deliver real value to the users, right down to the bottom line, ends Petter Myrvang.
Eurostep Group, ( http://www.eurostep.com/ ), delivers software and consulting services for product life-cycle management with a particular focus on the exchange and sharing of data within and between enterprises. Services range from pre-studies to the implementation of customized systems. The flagship product, Share-A-space, ( http://www.share-a-space. com/ ), is a software that supports collaborative engineering on a project basis and across the life cycle of products. Eurostep has subsidiaries in Sweden, the UK, Finland, and the US and has blue-chip customers in a variety of industries including automotive, aerospace, defense, building & construction, process industries and infrastructure (GIS).
Det Norske Veritas (DNV)( http://www.dnv.com/ ), established in 1864, is an independent foundation with the objective of safeguarding life, property and the environment. DNV is a leading international provider of services for managing risk with about 300 offices in 100 different countries, counting more than 5800 highly qualified employees, headquartered in Oslo, Norway. In addition to the main service areas Classification, Certification, Consulting, Technology and Risk, DNV provides Information Quality Management (IQM) services to improve business performance by managing critical information.
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