What is BS EN 9300-115 - LOTAR for aerospace?
BS EN 9300 series focuses on Long Term Archiving and Retrieval (LOTAR) of digital technical product documentation for aerospace applications.
BS EN 9300-115 describes the requirements, and particularly the information required, for the long term archiving and retrieval of a mechanical CAD explicit assembly structure. This allows the retrieval of the assembly structure including the placement information.
BS EN 9300-115 provides business specifications for the long term archiving and retrieval of the explicit CAD assembly structure. The CAD assembly structure defines the collection of CAD parts into assemblies, and assemblies into higher level assemblies. An assembly can contain several occurrences of the same part or subassembly.
Who is BS EN 9300-115 LOTAR for aerospace?
BS EN 9300-115 on LOTAR for aerospace is useful for:
- The aerospace industry
- The IT industry / the IT divisions at aerospace facilities
- Personnel involved in implementing / maintaining / executing LOTAR
- Design teams / design engineers
- CAD specialists
Why should you use BS EN 9300-115 - LOTAR for aerospace?
Many companies are migrating their design processes from traditional hard-copy drawings and documents to using digital data. New processes are needed to archive digital data and preserve access to it, in compliance with business and regulatory requirements appropriate to this new media. Over these time periods, changes in technology impact the ability to retrieve and use product data. Organizations, which use digital product data, will need strategies and processes that maintain the usability of the data over multiple generations of technology.
BS EN 9300-115 covers the archiving of the tree structure and the associated positioning information. The assembly structure is a tree, in which the leaf nodes are individual parts, and the non-leaf nodes are assemblies. The parent and child relationship between two nodes records that the child is part of a higher assembly, and the relative position of that child in that assembly.
BS EN 9300-115 provides you with verification rules of CAD explicit assembly structure to apply to the archived data. The validation of the explicit assembly structure ensures that the following essential information are preserved: the assembly structure nodes, the assembly relationship composed by parent and child links and the geometrical transformation for each occurrence, the file references, the attributes of the nodes.