Engineering data management: achieving integration through database technology

Author

Urban, Susan D. ; Shah, Jami J. ; Rogers, Mary T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Arizona State Univ., Temple, AZ, USA

Volume

4

Issue

3

fYear

1993

fDate

6/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

126

Abstract

An architecture is given for engineering data management that incorporates current work on engineering product standards as well as current work in database research. In particular, a framework that views an engineering design environment as an integrated, heterogeneous database system is presented. This integrated view of data makes use of data exchange standards in PDES/STEP, presenting a framework for the representation of meta data that describes an object-oriented view of data and supports an object-oriented query language for the retrieval of data from multiple data sources. How the use of active database technology supports a rule-based approach to constraint propagation and change notification is also described

Keywords

constraint handling; deductive databases; electronic data interchange; engineering computing; object-oriented databases; query languages; standards; PDES/STEP; active database technology; change notification; constraint propagation; data exchange standards; database research; engineering data management; engineering design environment; engineering product standards; heterogeneous database system; integrated view; meta data; multiple data sources; object-oriented query language; object-oriented view; rule-based approach;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing & Control Engineering Journal

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0956-3385

Type

jour

Filename

224109