Enterprise Modeling Using STEP

At present, the existing product data formats are not unified, the enterprise product data and the management information can´t directly be shared among the various interior departments of the enterprise and among the enterprises. ISO has recommended STEP (Standards for the Exchange of Product model data). This article gave one three-dimensional enterprise framework described in the multi-views and given the first place to the product data view in entire lifecycle. The methods of using the STEP definition to describe the enterprise model information were expatiated on, giving an instance by these methods. Because the enterprise model information are both easily read and used by model using personnel and can be directly transferred through computer, the effective information integration can be realized among the enterprise models and its each production link.