Ferroday Limited was incorporated in April 1993 to develop methods of integrating
computer representations of materials information with software systems for engineering
design and analysis. The Directors of the Company combine world class materials
knowledge with world class software engineering capability.
The main achievements of the Company have to been to develop two International Standards
for the computer representation of materials and other engineering properties as
a contribution to the global project for product data representation managed by the
International Organization for Standards (ISO TC184/SC4) since 1984:
- ISO 10303-45: ‘Materials and other engineering properties’: enables the independent
computer representation of any property of any product.
- ISO 10303-235 ‘Engineering properties for product design’: a new standard that extends
ISO 10303-45 to describe the methods by which any engineering property is derived.
Ferroday Ltd has demonstrated the capabilities of these standards in several European
and industrial projects. ISO 10303-45 is used for the representation of materials
properties in the new ISO 10303-242 standard being developed as a joint project of
the aerospace and automobile industries. We advised Sandvik Coromant on the development
of ISO 13399 ‘Cutting tools data representation and exchange’ and edited several
parts of this standard. The December issue of the ISO Focus magazine for 2007 includes
an article describing ISO 13399. We recently contributed to the development of BS
8905: ‘Framework for the Sustainable Use of Materials - Guidance’ that includes an
Annexe that describes the benefits of the ISO standards developed by ISO TC184/SC4.
British Patent GB 2336430 B ‘Methods and apparatus for recycling’ is owned by Ferroday
Ltd and applies the combination of computer-readable tags and standardised information
representation to the recycling of products. Engisis S.r.l. is an associated company
that provides resources and services for interoperability for PLM systems.
Contact us:
14 Mere Farm Road, Birkenhead, CH43 9TT, U.K.
Tel: +44 (0) 151 670 0651 Or email