prostep ivip Web Seminar on LOTAR


prostep ivip Web Seminar on LOTAR

21 July 2025

Aircraft have very long lifecycles. There can be 80 years between the initial design for a new program and the end of life of the last one delivered. Throughout the product lifecycle, the data defined for archiving and retrieval must be provided in a standardized format that can be read and reused regardless of changes to the original IT environment. Ensuring this is the goal of LOTAR.

LOTAR is a project under the joint auspices of the aerospace industry association AIA and ASD, as well as PDES, Inc. and prostep ivip. It aims to develop, implement, test, pilot, publish, and maintain standards for long-term archiving and retrieval of digital product and technical information. This includes CAD and PDM data, composites, wire harnesses, MBSE artifacts, and more. The multi-part standard describes both the information content and the processes for recording, storing, managing, and accessing information. The documents are published as parts of the EN/NAS-9300 series of standards.

The prostep ivip Association has recoreded and published a web seminar on LOTAR which is freely available as video-on-demand on the prostep ivip Homepage.

Speakers of the web seminar:

  • Bernd Feldvoss, Airbus, European project lead.
  • Jeff Klein, The Boeing Company, Americas project lead.

Target Audience:

  • User representatives from any industry working on processes related to digital thread or long-term archiving
  • Solution providers for CAx, PLM, MBSE interested in the underlying use cases

Key Benefits from this Web Seminar:

  • Gain an understanding of long-term archiving use cases, in particular in the aerospace context.
  • Understand how the LOTAR project interacts with other domains and organizations to ensure a harmonized standards-based approach for data interoperability and longevity.
  • See how the EN/9300 series standard developed by LOTAR helps companies to meet regulatory requirements.
  • Learn about opportunities to participate.