Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:44:00 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Martin Hardwick

Martin Hardwick

Titles:  Professor of Computer Science, RPI
          Director, Laboratory for Industial Information Infrastructure
          President, STEP Tools, Inc.
          Member of the Board, PDES, Inc
          Member of the Board, US Product Data Association
Email Address: hardwick@rdrc.rpi.edu

Telephone Number: 1-518-276-2712

Address: 6752 Center for Industrial Innovation
         Rensselaer Polytechic Institute
         Troy, NY 12180

Bio

Dr Martin Hardwick is a Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Director of the Laboratory for Industial Information Infrastructure. He is a principal investigator in the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering at Rensselaer, and has performed research for ARPA, NSF, GE, IBM, DEC, HP, and Wright Patterson AFB. He developed the ROSE data management tools for engineering, and has also developed change management and version control tools for concurrent engineering, visualization tools for STEP geometry, and data access interfaces for STEP databases.

Dr. Hardwick is the author of numerous papers on engineering database systems, PDES/STEP and concurrent engineering, and has presented many public lectures internationally on these topics. He is the deputy convenor of Working Group 7 of ISO STEP, the group responsible for the STEP Data Access Interface (SDAI) and other implementation methods of the STEP standard.

Dr. Hardwick has worked on numerous data integration programs, including the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering, the ARPA Simulation Based Design Program, the NIST ATP PreAmp progrm, three NSF programs, and two Air Force programs. Software written by Dr. Hardwick is being used for PDES/STEP data exchange at several fortune 500 companies including in the aerospace sector Boeing, McDonnel Douglas, GE and Pratt & Whitney, and in the automotive sector GM, Ford and Daimler Benz. A team lead by Dr.Hardwick was responsible for designing the protocols that allow different STEP application protocols to inter-operate in a database.

Dr. Hardwick is the president of STEP Tools Inc. a company that makes and markets a set of software tools for the PDES/STEP standard. He received his bachelor and doctorate degrees from Bristol University in England in 1978 and 1982. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM.


Available Documents

  • Data Protocols for the Industial Virtual Enterprise

    Selected Recent Publications (of 51 total):

    "On Object Oriented Databases, Materialized Views and Concurrent Engineering," Proc. 1991 Database Symposium of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, A. Saxena, editor, August 1991.

    "Implementing the PDES/STEP Specification in an Object Oriented Database," Proc. of AUTOFACT'91, A.R. Skomara, editor, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, MS91-439, November 1991 (with the Data Engineering Research Group).

    "Managing Change Using STEP," Proc. Concurrent Engineering and CALS Conference, Washington, J. Spears, editor, Society for Computer Aided Engineering, June 1991 (with the Data Engineering Research Group).

    "Implementing Concurrent Engineering Using STEP, EXPRESS and Delta Files," in Languages for Manufacturing and Design, B. Gruver and J. Broudreaux, editors, Springer Verlag, London, 1993.

    "Lessons Learned using the PDES/STEP Standard and Object Oriented Databases to Implement Concurrent Engineering," Proc. CALS Expo 1992, James Nell, San Diego, December 1992.

    "Using Persistent Object Technology to Support Concurrent Engineering," invited chapter in Concurrent Engineering, Elsevier Science Publishing Company, P. Gu and A. Kusiak, 1993 (with D. Spooner).

    "Using STEP and EXPRESS to Implement Concurrent Engineering: Results of An Experiment," AUTOFACT 93, ASME, Chicago, November 1993.

    "Mapping EXPRESS AIM's to ARM'S Using Database Views: A Comparison of Three Approaches," 4th Annual EXPRESS User's Group International Conference, October 13-14, 1994, Greenville, SC, 1994.

    "Efficient Database Implementation of EXPRESS Information Models," with D. Loffredo, 4th Annual EXPRESS User's Group International Conference, October 13-14, 1994, Greenville, SC, 1994.

    "Concurrent Engineering with Delta Files," IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, January 1995, Volume 15, Number 1, pp. 62-68.