The Technical Steering Committee is primarily responsible for managing the association's technical work program. It assumes overall economic and technical responsibility for managing and harmonizing all the technically-oriented work performed within the association and makes decisions about setting up and terminating projects, financial support for the projects and utilization and publication of the results achieved by the projects.
The Cloud-Based Production Collaboration Project (CBPC) has completed its work and handed over the developed use cases to the Collaborative Digital Twins project. One key motivator for the project was the urgent need to harmonize established IT landscapes and share the experience gained in the use of cloud-based solutions. First of all, the group focused on identifying the topics of interest by developing use cases. Following prioritization, the use case Data Use External Assets was explored in greater depth and information on the on the experience gained by the companies was collected in multiple rounds of interviews. All the findings have been summarized in a recommendation, which is available online in our media library.
The AI marketplace research project was brought to a successful close in June 2023 and has reached over 7,500 individuals. The objective of the project was to close the gap between product development and artificial intelligence by means of a digital platform, the AI marketplace. While prostep ivip made a significant contribution to AI in engineering with a documented 150% reference process and 50 AI use cases in product development, AI Marketplace GmbH will be taking over operation of the platform – although the Data Store deliverable remains incomplete due to a lack of identified market demand.
Three benchmark-related project groups were also able to complete their work by the end of 2023: the ReqIF BM, the JT BM and the STEP BM. All three projects were carried out with partner organizations, the JT and ReqIF BM together with the VDA and the STEP BM together with AFNeT.
Following the conclusion of AI marketplace-related activities and after a number of discussions at the symposium and in the Technical Steering Committee, it was decided that AI should remain a topic of interest for prostep ivip. As there is a great deal of uncertainty about the use of GenAI in engineering, the handling of shared data, the legal situation and many other questions, a survey was launched to determine the needs of our member companies.
In the context of publicly funded projects, a great deal of time and effort was invested in setting up a consortium and creating a project outline within the framework of the funding guideline Digitalization of Vehicle Manufacturers, the Supplier Industry and Industrial Supply Chains (announced by the BMWK) for the topic Engineering-X, as engineering-specific decisions have a significant impact on resource consumption, environmental footprints and the resilience of value chains. The objective of Engineering-X is to make highly complex engineering data accessible in order to establish new cross-industry methods for value creation and maximize the potential for innovation, sustainability and flexibility in product development. The decision regarding acceptance of this application is expected in Q2 2024.
In 2024, the TSC will launch the Framework for AI-Enabled Collaborative Engineering (FAICE) project to leverage AI in engineering. FAICE aims to create a framework for controlled data sharing that makes the collaborative use of generative AI models possible, highlights the benefits and demonstrates how shared data enhances AI solutions.
At the same time, the Digital Data Package (DDP) project will be launching a standardization project as part of the Data-Driven Engineering Collaboration Cluster at the OMG with the support of GfSE and the VDA with the aim of creating a robust standard for cross-enterprise and cross-domain collaboration that incorporates the strengths of DDP and SpecIF.
The technical work program will continue to be geared to the association's strategic goals and will identify and address new topics.
"It would be much appreciated if additional companies were to actively participate in the Technical Steering Committee."
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