Model morphisms as an enabler for open visualization of product data

Abstract

During the last decade the world has changed in an unprecedented manner. Transport and communication infrastructures have been steadily developed and have had important impacts on various industriespsila. To increase the business effectiveness, product development should be based on open, interoperable and internationally accepted information and communications technology (ICT) standards. However, proprietary solutions still proliferate, being the geometry-based product data representation and exchange one of the most significant areas suffering from interoperability problems. This paper proposes a standard-based framework to support open visualization of geometry vital information to non-expert users. Dynamic model integration and intelligent harmonisation of different digital supports of geometric models is performed at meta-level enabling transparent interaction with simple product geometry, thus providing low-cost interoperability between the parts involved.