This document is Annex C of ProSTEP iViP Recommendation PSI 4. This annex contains the technical description of SimPDM core data management functionality.

The recommendation is intended to standardize the integration of simulation and computation data in a product data management environment (PDM environment) in the form of simulation data management (SDM) and to define the communication processes between a simulation data management system (SDM system) and CAE systems as well as between an SDM system and other data management systems within the PDM environment.

With this purpose in mind, the recommendation defines use cases and functional requirements for simulation data management and a meta data model to describe simulation and computation data. The meta data model is modularly designed to allow a custom-tailored solution for simulation data management. Furthermore this recommendation describes necessary functionality and its clustering towards use case. Functionality and use cases are modular, too. So it is possible to customize SimPDM to the specific requirements of an enterprise.

The recommendation does not define an interchange data format between different CAE applications.

The recommendation consists of several documents:

• The main recommendation document
• Annex A: Glossary (included in the main document)
• Annex B: Business process diagrams (simulation data management for MBS, FEM and CFD)
• Annex C: Core data management functionality (the document in hand)
• Annex D: System communication functionality
• Annex E: Data model

The Annexes B, C, D, E are available for download as separated documents on the websites of ProSTEP iViP e.V (www.prostep.org) and VDA (www.vda.de).