Model Based Enterprise / Technical Data Package Summit Report

This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations from the ModelBased Enterprise Summit held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in December of 2011. The purpose of the Summit was to identify challenges, research, implementation issues, and lessons learned in manufacturing and quality assurance where a digital three-dimensional (3D) model of the product serves as the authoritative information source for all activities in the product’s lifecycle. The report includes an overview of modelbased engineering, technical challenges, summaries of the presentations given at the workshop, and conclusions that emerged from the presentations and discussions.