September 2025: Global Product Data Interoperability Summit

September 2025 Phoenix, Arizona:

Anark stormed the Global Product Data Interoperability Summit 2025 together with the by team at BETA Technologies who shared their success story and exchanged innovative ideas with this community that includes customers such as Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Collins and more.

BETA Technologies' Stephen de Klein presented on how they overcame the challenges of 3DEXPERIENCE CATIA V6 and composites design publishing to deliver scalable, visual Model-Based Technical Data Packages that meet the highest standards in aerospace. Stephen is a PLM Team Member, MBD, Type Certification and composites materials subject matter expert.  The 3D PDF Technical Data Packages were for delivery to the FAA for Type Certification, a challenge BETA described as a “existential milestone”. Stephen was joined by Anark VP of Marketing Patrick Dunfey.

The work with BETA was critical for FAA certification as a monumental milestone for emerging aircraft manufacturers, and was a major product data challenge for them. The BETA team developing electric vertical aircraft needed a way to deliver detailed, certification-ready engineering packages to the FAA and also to a diverse, fast-moving supply chain, without requiring recipients to procure expensive CAD tools or interpret proprietary file formats.  Attendees gained insight into why CAD-neutral, visually rich 3D TDPs are essential to FAA type certification and how the publishing challenges from 3DEXPERIENCE were addressed. Note that MANY of the same challenges, especially with composites exist for all the other MBD systems that Anark supports such as NX, Creo, Solidworks and more. We can handle it for 3D PDF or Web based Technical Data Publications.

We will post some clips from the presentation shortly and until then:

• Schedule a update with Jim Martin

• Contact Anark

Digital Engineering Solutions (DOD Instruction 5000.97) for Aerospace and Defense

Anark continues to break ground on how a Digital Engineering solution built on a manufacturing collaboration platform addresses 3 foundational requirements of DOD Instruction 5000.97 including:

1. Making data visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trustworthy, interoperable, and secure.

2. Informing decision-makers throughout a system’s life cycle by providing the capability to access, integrate, and transform data into actionable information while supporting a feedback loop over the life cycle.

3. Powering digital collaboration value including government-to-government, contractor-to-government, and contractor-to-supplier digital collaboration, and more. 

Many of these exact concepts of DoDI 5000.97 were proven out by the recently completed OIB Modernization Project with MxD, Picatinny Arsenal, and Rock Island Arsenal as sponsored by OSD MANTECH.

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Anark continues to drive ahead with Boeing as they utilize the Anark Technical Data Collaboration platform & Open Standards to Deploy a Connected & Collaborative Digital Enterprise.  Boeing applies Anark as part of their initiatives for improved data access and collaboration and we provide advanced content management, data distribution, & visual collaboration throughout the extended enterprise.  We continued the conversations to expand the use of Anark platform with Boeing members at the event. 

For more information, or to set up a meeting, please Contact Anark.