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Proprietary Design Information and Fruit Pies

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Author(s)

John A. Horst

Abstract

The proliferation of proprietary design info exchange formats is causing high costs to manufacturers. The standards solution is offered as both attainable and worth the effort. A design information exchange standards development life-cycle is proposed.
Citation
Published in the Collaboration & Interoperability Market Report 2008, pp. 51 53

Keywords

computer-aided design (CAD), product design, proprietary formats, information exchange standards, product design information, STEP, native formats, format translation

Citation

Horst, J. (2008), Proprietary Design Information and Fruit Pies, Published in the Collaboration & Interoperability Market Report 2008, pp. 51 53, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=824743, http://www.longviewadvisors.com (Accessed October 27, 2025)

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Created November 7, 2008, Updated February 19, 2017
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