Information Engineers

U.K. Company Registration no: 2806428

The Company was founded in April 1993 to exploit the expertise of the Directors in engineering materials and  software engineering and with a wide experience of computer systems and software development.

Information engineering

Information engineering uses international standard specifications to enable the unambiguous communication of engineering data between different computer systems. 

            Information engineering is supported by the international standards for product data technology developed by ISO Technical Committee184/SC4 that include:

• ISO 10303 Product data representation and exchange (known as STEP) – for the computerised representation of design and manufacturing data for individual products;

• ISO 13584 Parts libraries (known as PLIB) – for computerised reference dictionaries to support standards in the ISO 10303 series.

Product data technology (PDT) has been developed in a global project with support and cooperation between the largest companies in most of the main industrial sectors, such as auto, aerospace, defence, off-shore oil and gas, process plant, shipbuilding, etc.   Ferroday Ltd is a major contributor to this global project, specialising in the application of this technology to engineering materials, materials technologies and environmental data.

Ferroday Ltd developed the ISO 10303-45: Materials and is currently developing the ISO 10303-235 'Engineering properties for product design and validation' to enable the computerisation of any property data measured by any method.

Principal activities

The aims of the company are to exploit and apply this unique experience and examples of their recent activities are:

•  ISO 10303-235 for the representation of engineering property data was supported in the EU project  "Manufacturing and modelling of fabricated structural components" (MMFSC), in partnership with leading European aero-engine manufacturers;
• the first computer-processable dictionary of the test methods and properties of aerospace alloys was produced in cooperation with the Aeronautical Research and  Test Institute (VZLU) in Prague, also in the MMFSC Project,;
• Partnership in the EU Thematic network CASCADE showed that  ISO 10303-235 can be applied to data representation in life cycle assessment (LCA);
• ISO 13584 was used to produce reference data dictionaries as part of the development of ISO 13399 'Cutting tool data representation and exchange', as consultants to the world's largest producers of cutting tools;
• e-learning courses in the use of standards to support innovation in life-cycle thinking are currently being developed in the DEPUIS project in partnership with ENEA, Italy

Other activities

British Patent GB2 366 430 B has been granted to Ferroday Ltd to apply the combination of Automatic Identification and Capture (AIDC) technology and information engineering standards to recycling, particularly for End-of-Life-Vehicles (ELV).  This Patent was one outcome of a SMART Award from the UK Government in 1999.