A new version of the LOTAR Part 001, which defines and explains the structure of the EN/NAS 9300 family of standards, has been published by ASD-STAN in Europe and AIA in the US. This is the first update of this basic document since the initial release of the standard. In addition to considering changed legal […]

For the first time since the pandemic, members of the LOTAR project as well as the MBx Interoperability Forum were able to get together for a full week of face-to-face meetings. From 18-22 September 2022, more than 50 participants met in Mt. Pleasant, SC, USA, with even more experts joining online. While over the past […]

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 […]