After more than 32 years with Airbus, Jean-Yves Delaunay retired on 3 June 2022. Jean-Yves has been a passionate proponent of standards-based data exchange in general, and STEP in particular. He has taken the lead in Long-Term Archiving and Retrieval of digital product data on the European side since the activity was launched by ASD-Stan […]

The close collaboration with the MBx Interoperability Forum is a key success factor for the LOTAR project. It ensures that industry requirements are validated and harmonized across domains before they become part of the EN/NAS 9300 series of standards, helps to improve the maturity and robustness of the underlying information models, and enhances support for […]

The LOTAR project, defining requirements for the long-term archiving and retrieval of digital product data across a wide variety of domains, has a long-standing tradition of working closely together with the related interoperability forums to ensure those requirements are readily supported in authoring tools and STEP interfaces. From 20-24 September 2021, more than 50 participants […]

The goal of the LOTAR project is to develop, test, pilot, publish and maintain standards designed to provide the capability to archive and retrieve digital product and technical information, in a standard form that can be read and reused throughout the product lifecycle. The multi-part standard is published as prEN/NAS-9300. The prostep ivip webinar will […]

The LOTAR International project provides a platform where Aerospace companies jointly develop requirements and processes for standards-based long-term archiving and retrieval. New versions of these target standards specify how the data representing the extended set of business requirements that they support can be preserved over time. The publication of STEP AP242 Edition 2 in April […]