Information Engineering

What is information engineering?

Information engineering uses engineering principles to develop standardised specifications for the representation of digital product data that are independent from any proprietary software - also known as product data technology.

Who uses it?

These standard specifications are in use for real-time communication, data management and data conservation in:

•  aerospace,  automobile, advanced manufacturing, ship design and construction, defence, chemical process plant, offshore oil & gas, composite material products, electronics, machine cutting tools, systems engineering, furniture, etc.

The use of product data representation standards  for the long-term conservation of engineering information have been demonstrated in the LOTAR project - a collaboration between auto, aerospace and defence organisations to conserve data using ISO 10303 standards and the Open Archival Information System (ISO 14721:2003).

How it is done?

The specifications are computer interpretable information models that are defined in the series of International Standards developed by ISO TC184/SC4 and :

• are written in a computer processable language EXPRESS (ISO 10303-11);
• incorporate quality control and quality assurance for each model as specified in ISO 8000-8 ‘Information and data quality:Concepts and measuring’.

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