Interoperability Mitigation Efforts

• Proprietary Solutions

  • Plenty to choose from
  • Flexible or not
  • Costly to implement or maintain
  • Difficulty of validating functionality

• Standards

  • Plenty to choose from
    • Example - MCAD
      • IGES, STEP, SAT, DXF, VDA, STL…
    • Similar situation in other domains
  • A lot of reinventing the wheel
  • Flexible or not
  • Time-consuming to develop
  • Somewhat testable

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