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May 18-19, 2026: Darmstadt, Germany
Anark is excited to be in Germany to sponsor the 18th annual Engineering Process Days event hosted by our partner :em engineering methods AG. We plan to continue the conversations our partner is leading on how End‑to‑end Digital Threads are moving from vision to reality.
Anark Collaborate has been the foundation of the :emAG developed Digital Data Package Manager (DDP) for a number of years and with more recent Content-Centric Collaboration from Anark along with flexible and open HTML templates and panels, we can now accelerate the ability to semantically link data across the lifecycle and visualize it for real value in engineering and production.
These are exactly the goals of the DDP working group and according to the ProSTEP iViP association: "A Digital Data Package (DDP) as an evolution of traditional Technical Data Packages (TDP), aiming to move from simply bundling files to managing interlinked, semantically connected data. DDP addresses the limitations of TDPs, which often act as passive file collections, by enabling active, cross-domain, and cross-company collaboration in model-based engineering."
Some of the topics that we plan to explore at the event include:
✔ Anark 3D PDF Technical Data Packages that have been streamlined with updated publication options and template approaches for performance along with recent Windchill & Teamcenter MBD Creo publishing automation additions.
✔ New standalone HTML Digital Data Package (DDP) generation capabilities that can be used in parallel to 3D PDF or hosted Anark Collaborate HTML solutions.
✔ Secure, dynamic collaboration with new Content Centric Collaboration that builds upon 10+ years expertise in publishing and hosting on-prem & SaaS, browser based Digital Data Packages.
✔ Support for STEP AP242 and QIF, along with synced content across standards and authoritative data via UUIDs. This is exactly the type of interlinked, semantically connected approaches that the DDP is intended to address.
✔ Updated strategies for Technical Data Collaboration as driven by our digital thread implementations across the product lifecycle as described in the below blog:
Machine-Readable vs. Human-Readable Data in Digital Engineering.
Figure 1 - HTML Technical Data Package with sync of Creo STEP AP242 to QIF via PIDs
If you would like to talk more on Anark's DDP offerings, please Contact Anark.
Related Resources:
Blog: Anark and :em engineering methods AG Expand Partnership for MBSE Value
Blog: How Model Based Enterprise Transforms Product Lifecycle Management
