This recommendation is intended to standardize the integration of simulation and computation data in a product data mana gement 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 metadata model to describe simulation and computation data. The metadata model is modularly designed to allow a customtailored solution for simulation data management. Furthermore this recommendation describes necessary functionalities, clustered towards use cases. Functionality and use cases are modular, too. This means that it is possible to customize SimPDM to suit 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 annexes B, C, D, E are available for download as separate documents on the websites of the ProSTEP iViP Association
(www.prostep.org) and VDA (www.vda.de).