To achieve industry's vision of the Model-Based Enterprise (MBE), the MBE strategy must
include model-centric data interoperability for design to manufacturing and quality in the
supply chain. The Model-Based Definition (MBD) is created by the OEM using Computer-
Aided Design (CAD) tools. This information is then shared with the supplier so that they can
manufacture and inspect the physical parts. Today, almost all suppliers use Computer-Aided
Manufacturing (CAM) and Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) models respectively for …

To achieve the industry vision of a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE), the MBE strategy must
include model-centric data interoperability for design to manufacturing and quality in the
supply chain. Even though there has been a move in industry to become model-centric,
today there is still significant manual intervention in the supply chain to go from product
design to manufacturing and quality inspection. The ISO 10303 Standard for the Exchange
of Product Model Data (STEP) data standard can minimize much of the manual intervention …