funStep with SMEs

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funStep-AP236 Product and Business Data
exchange in Furniture Sector

• funStep with SMEs

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PROFILE OF AIDIMA

• FUNDED IN 1986
• by the Furniture and Woodworking Industry
  Federation,
• individual companies, with the support of the
  Central
• and Local Administrations.
• PRIVATE, NON FOR PROFIT ASSOCIATION
• AIDIMA HAS 3 HEADQUARTERS IN VALENCIA,
• AND 2 TECHNICAL UNITS
• Once in the north of Valencia.
• Other in Madrid.
• AIDIMA has two Institutes associates Yecla and
  Mallorca.
• MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATED more than 600
• OVER 70 EMPLOYEES

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Furniture Worldwide Consumption.
NORWAY
FINLAND
SWEDEN
U.k
CANADA
IRELAND
RUSSIA
GERMANY
FRANCE
U.S.A.
ITALY
ESPAÑA
TURQKEY
PORTUGAL
GRECIA
JAPON
CHINA
ISRAEL
COREA SUR
EGIPT
KUWAIT
MEXICO
TAIWAN
U.E.A
SAUDI ARABIA
INDIA
HK
IS. FILIPINAS
TAILANDIA
MALASIA
Furniture market size per country
SINGAPUR
More than 9.000 million euro
INDONESIA
Among 3.900 mill euro and 9.000 mill euro.
Among 1.800 mill euro and 3.900 mill.euro
BRASIL
Among 900 mill euro and 1.800 mill.euro
Less than 900 mill. euro
AUSTRALIA
No considered
CHILE
SUDAFRICA
ARGENTINA
NUEVA ZELANDA
Source AIDIMA
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Different sectors and requirementsAircraft /
Automotive Furniture
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Actual situation in the furniture industry good
CAD systems but not compatibles
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the funStep Interest Group profile

• Non-for-profit organisation.
• Industry requirements based. Bottom-up approach.
• Results are open for any member (software houses,
  industry, retailers )
• Membership open.
• Open to collaboration (CEN, ISO,...)

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Objectives

• Increase sector awareness on the data exchange
  problem. Disseminate the knowledge about the
  funStep initiative.
• Facilitate the development of test cases and
  models implementation.
• Exchange information and co-operate with
  initiatives in related sectors.
• Manage the network.

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The funStep general architecture
Product taxonomy criteria
funStep.org members funStep.org Dictionary
Furnishing project model
funStep-APDIS project funStep WGroups ISO TC184
SC4 CEN/isss Software vendors
Product catalogue model
ECOS project Internet, XML, e-signature e-Business
portals
e-Business interoperability
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WGs structure and workflow
WG Catalogue Project (AP236)
WG e-Business
WG Manufacturing/ERP
WG Parametrics
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WG Geometry and visual representation.

• Convener
• Jordi Cruzado. Tecnohard. (E)
• Objective
• Agreement amongst software vendors in a common
  geometry representation.
• Define different specifications for different
  purposes
• Decoration project representation.
• Detailed product design.
• ...

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WG Parametrics

• Convener
• Jordi Cruzado. Tecnohard. (E)
• Objective
• Agreement amongst software vendors in a neutral
  representation for parametrics.

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WG Catalogue and project development (AP236)

• Convener
• Miguel Salinas. Goeteborgs Universitet (SW)
• Objective
• Agreement amongst software vendors and users in a
  neutral catalogue and project representation for
  marketing, sales and customer support.
• Develop a Dictionary (product taxonomy).

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WG e-Business

• Convener
• Maria José Núñez. AIDIMA. (E).
• Objective
• Agreement amongst users in a common specification
  of message structures, linkage to catalogues,
  transport media and e-business services.

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WG Manufacturing / ERP data

• Convener
• Regis Ollivier. SPI Software. (F).
• Objective
• Manage the extension of AP236 towards the
  manufacturing (including NC machining) and manage
  of ERP data.

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WG Data model update

• Convener
• (Luciano Lauro). Democenter. (I).
• Objective
• Collect contributions from funStep working
  groups.
• Keep up to date documentation about data models.
• Edit documents required to contribute to
  standardisation initiatives.

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WG Implementation testing

• Convener
• Ricardo Goncalves. UNINOVA. (P).
• Objective
• Development of implementation plans.
• Organise implementors round tables.
• Detect in advance implementation issues.
• Support the development of implementation tools
  and services.
• Develop testing data and procedures.

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WG On-line Dictionary

• Convener
• Amparo Roca. AIDIMA. (Design and testing). (E)
• Mario Martins. UNINOVA. (Implementation). (P)
• Objective
• Develop a multilingual dictionary with furniture
  terms to support the discussion and translation
  of sector-specific data.

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Work flow
EC
M.Board
Chaps
WG
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Catalogue implementation with GoStep 214
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Catalogue implementation with GoStep 214 (II)
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Have a look at...

• http//www.funStep.org