CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
March 2005
Product News
EPM Announces Major Upgrades To The EDMserver (used for IFC, STEP, PLCS and RDL's)
EDMserver is a Product Model Server capable of storing all your data for complex systems, including native support for any standard data model, like IFC, STEP, PLM/PLCS or Reference Data Libraries. The unified database system you need to manage the life cycle for your products and systems, using a model driven architecture.
EDMserver makes all product details, not just visual details, available to a variety of users during all phases of engineering, development, production, operation and maintenance. Ultimately, the EXPRESS Data Manager helps transform many business theories into realistic business goals; goals which will ensure a strategic, competitive edge for projects and companies, large or small:
• minimize product life-cycle costs
• provide product life cycle support (PLCS)
• ensure data integrity
• collaborate in virtual or extended enterprises
• shorten product development cycles
• support concurrent product and process development
• respond with agility to changing customer needs
The examples here:
EDMserver used for IFC applications, ( http://www.epmtech.jotne.com/epm/download/IFC_brochure_OK.pdf )
EDMserver for PLCS applications, http://www.epmtech.jotne.com/epm/download/EPM_Bue_inn_2siders.pdf
EDMserver for Ontology based applications, http://www.barbi.no/index.jsp
EXPRESS Data Manager general information, http://www.epmtech.jotne.com/epm/download/EDM47.pdf
Technical material for programmers to download, http://www.epmtech.jotne.com/training/index.html
Whenever you need to manage non-trivial amounts of data, or whenever non-trivial ways of manipulating your data is required, you must use a Database Management System (DBMS). Simply using your file system will not do. General-purpose relational DBMSs are excellent tools for a wide range of administrative data management challenges. But these products lack the specialized features that are necessary in certain application domains. That's why you find a number of niche products vendors in the database industry, catering for particular needs not adequately met by the general-purpose products.
EPM Technology is such a vendor, and our product suite EXPRESS Data ManagerT (EDM) has been built specifically to manage the extremely complex data structures found in military and industrial applications that deal with what is generally known as product data models. This could for example be 3D models of buildings, ships, or airplanes or related PLM or BIM applications.
Not only do such data models tend to have a level of complexity way beyond what could feasibly be implemented in a relational database, but when dealing with these data models one usually encounters a strong need to support
EDMserverT is the central part of the suite and contains the EDM database. The architecture of this database is corresponding 100% with the logic of the EXPRESS language and the structure of the STEP, PLCS and IFC product descriptions. The EXPRESS logic is also reflected in the in the embedded EDMexpressVMT (Virtual Machine) that is the engine used when manipulating the data in the database.
The strength of the EXPRESS Data ManagerT is not only in the database itself but also the comprehensive environment of functional software tools EPM Technology is proposing to ensure an efficient and secure storage, retrieval and maintenance of the database. Much of the efficiency gain by using EXPRESS Data ManagerT is embedded in these highly functional products.
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