The AIAG Collaborative Engineering & Product Development Steering Committee is chartered to provide an environment in the industry which enables collaborative engineering and product development, that lead to improved quality reduced cost and cycle times for all participants in the extended enterprise. The goal is to provide enablers for achieving cost savings, lead-time reduction, and quality improvement in global automotive supply chain through collaborative efforts involving the use of vehicle product data.

DML is a XML Schema based specification, which defines feature actuals and feature measurement results from a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) for a single manufactured part, sufficient for complete reanalysis. This project will progress the latest version of the DML specification (AIAG's DML D-23) to both a national (ANSI) standard and an international (ISO) standard, and will be a joint effort with the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC). The project will involve the performance of the following tasks:

• Write a specification document for an XML data format, which meets the best practices of U.S. national standards documents and is suitable for formal standardization within ANSI and ISO.
• Produce a revised XML schema that concisely encodes the DML data model, and enables efficient data processing for encoding and decoding data that is conveyed in DML files
• Document the schema to enable software developers and quality experts to work together to develop commercial software applications that implement the DML specification accurately
• Revise the D-23 data model when needed to incorporate new data elements or to simplify existing data structures
• Continue the D-23 mission of considering information content from related standards and specifications, such as AP 219, ASME Y14.5, DMIS and QMD. Augment the current DML data model to include essential elements of these domains, and incorporate existing data definitions, names and terms where they already exist to harmonize the content and usage of DML with these domains.

This Ad Hoc Committee is responsible for overseeing and providing North American Automotive Industry input to the Global SASIG ECM work group. Its scope to define what constitutes an engineering change; identify key areas of high pains; map existing OEM and Supplier ECM processes in North America; provide terminology input to the global effort; and oversee the activities of the SASIG work group to ensure that North American input harmonizes with that of other nations.

This work group will create harmonized requirements for defining a robust, long term retention and archiving system for product definition information.

This committee will focus on identifying key pains and issues faced in the domain where Mechanical & Electrical-Electronics interact. One key area of focus is the issues related to "Embedded Software Management."

The goal and objective of this Project Team is to develop standards and formats that will enable interoperability between disparate hardware, software and existing systems. The end result will a reduced product development cycle time, increased product quality and meet faster "to market" goals.

Activities within the scope of the Project Team include:

• Identifying gaps within the current standards
• Developing a "road map" to metrology interoperability from start to finish
• Harmonize and upgrade existing standards to meet the ever changing industry needs
• Developing and perform conformance and interoperability tests
• Developing consensus user requirements to provide as input to standards and specifications development

Group is working on phase two of their AIAG D-25 QMD: Quality Measurement Data Specification. This phase calls for the development of OAGI compliant BoDs (Business Object Documents). Standard XML BoDs will enable interoperable global implementations.

The AIAG, in collaboration with other global automotive standards organization, has published a set of Engineering Change Management Guideline documents. The mission of the ECM-Internationalization work group is to oversee:

• Validation Pilots
• Implementation
• Technical Maintenance
• Internationalization of the SASIG ECM Guidelines by facilitating the transition to the ISO, International Standards Organization

This Committee is presently working on three deliverables:

• CAD Functionality Requirements
• Viewer Functionality Requirements
• A Global DEV Certification Criteria

This committee is a global collaboration between North American, European and Asian Automotive Standards Organizations. The goal is to deliver a single "collaborative" solution to specific pains in the Visualization sector.

The Work Group has successfully published the following documents:

• AIAG Visualization Guidelines
• SASIG DEV Guidelines
• SASIG 2D-3D Visualization Guidelines
• SASIG 3D Annotated Model Standard