Also known in previous years as "The STEP for Aerospace Workshop" and "The Aerospace Product Data Exchange (APDE) Workshop". For information and download of presentations from previous workshops please visit http://step.nasa.gov

You are invited to participate in the 10th NASA-ESA Product Data Exchange (PDE) Workshop, which is jointly organized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and an international advisory panel. This year the workshop returns to ESTEC – the European Space Research and Technology Centre of ESA – where the workshop was also held in 2002.

We build further on the heritage of nine highly successful annual workshops, alternating between the US and Europe. Over the years the workshop scope has evolved from focussing on a number of ISO 10303 / STEP (related) data exchange standards to a broad range of data exchange and data sharing technologies and standards that enable efficient and effective product life cycles (PLM) for complex systems and facilitate collaboration between organisations and disciplines.

The programme will be similar to previous PDE workshops: an opening evening reception followed by three days of presentations, plenary keynotes and discussions, networking opportunities, and "birds of a feather" meetings.