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Team & Acknowledgments

AP 210 is the product of decades of collaborative work by researchers, engineers, and standards professionals from industry, government, and academia.

Standards Leadership

Led the development, editorial work, and strategic direction of AP 210 across all four editions.

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Thomas Thurman

AP 210 Project Leader

PDES Inc. / Rockwell Collins

  • Led editorial development of all four editions of ISO 10303-210
  • Authored the ARM and MIM EXPRESS schemas (38 modules)
  • Created the AP 210 Training CD (July 2003)
  • Directed the AP 210 Rules Model design process
  • Authored multiple PDES test cases and annotated STEP examples

Publications

NIST AMS 100-51 Thermal Resistor Network (GCR 15-990) PLM Requirements MBSE (INCOSE) Multi-Domain Component Models (IR 7717)
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Allison Barnard Feeney

General Manager, PDES Inc.

PDES Inc. / NIST

  • Led NIST research on product manufacturing information (PMI) in STEP
  • Co-authored research on migrating PMI models to a common core
  • Advanced standards methodology for STEP interoperability
  • Guided NIST research partnerships with PDES Inc. and industry

Publications

NIST AMS 100-51

Research & Engineering

Developed reference implementations, analytical models, and research foundations for AP 210.

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Kevin Brady

Research & Engineering

National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Research and engineering leadership for STEP standards at NIST
  • Co-authored AP210 Ed2 Concept of Operations (NISTIR 7677)
  • Co-authored thermal resistor network model research (GCR 15-990)
  • Directed NIST programs supporting STEP implementation

Publications

Concept of Operations (IR 7677) Thermal Resistor Network (GCR 15-990)
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Peter Denno

Computer Scientist

National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Co-authored PLM requirements analysis for product lifecycle management
  • Co-authored MBSE research connecting AP210 with systems engineering
  • Developed process-aware integration schema concepts
  • Contributed to EXPRESS-X mapping language (ISO 10303-14)
  • Advanced AP233/SysML integration with STEP data

Publications

PLM Requirements MBSE (INCOSE)
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Michael Keenan

Research Engineer

NIST / Boeing

  • Developed the NIST JSDAI reference implementation for AP210
  • Built the MIMqueries interface and model traversal APIs
  • Created validation tools and test infrastructure
  • Contributed to test case development for PDES Test Cases Project
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Jamie Stori

AP210 Conceptual Framework

SFM Technology, Inc.

  • Authored AP210 Edition 2 Concept of Operations (NISTIR 7677)
  • Co-authored thermal resistor network model for packaged components
  • Defined the operational framework for the standard

Publications

Concept of Operations (IR 7677) Thermal Resistor Network (GCR 15-990)

Industry & Systems Engineering

Applied AP 210 in real-world engineering environments and advanced model-based systems engineering.

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John Mettenburg

Principal Systems Engineer

Rockwell Collins (now Collins Aerospace)

  • Co-authored MBSE research demonstrating AP210 in systems engineering workflows
  • Bridged AP210 data standards with MBSE practices at Rockwell Collins
  • Contributed to practical validation of AP210 in aerospace environments

Publications

MBSE (INCOSE)
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Dwayne Hardy

Systems Engineer

American Systems

  • Co-authored MBSE research connecting STEP standards with systems engineering
  • Contributed to analysis of AP210 support for SE data integration

Publications

MBSE (INCOSE)
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Gregory L. Smith

Design Rule Formalism

The Boeing Company

  • Chaired AP210 design rule formalism discussions with Thurman and Bajaj
  • Advanced constraint representation for electronic assembly design rules
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Manas Bajaj

DFM Research

Georgia Tech

  • Contributed to design-for-manufacturability frameworks via AP210
  • Participated in design rule formalism discussions

Test Cases & Training

Contributors to PDES test cases, recommended practices, and training materials.

James F. Adams

The Boeing Company

PDES-181 Complex Multi-layer PCA

Steve Waterbury

NASA

Test cases and PLM research

Mike Benda

Recommended practices

Jim Evans

PDES test cases

Kevin Cline

PDES test cases

Craig Lanning

PDES test cases

Paul Monson

PDES test cases

Contributing Organizations

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • CFD analysis for thermal management
  • Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GDT) for connectors and packages
  • SPICE integration with AP210 mechanical design models
  • JSDAI reference implementation and validation test cases

PDES Inc.

PDES Inc.

  • AP210 Viewer development and testing
  • IDF-to-AP210 conversion tools
  • Training materials and educational resources
  • Standards validation and test case development

ISO TC 184/SC 4

ISO Technical Committee 184, Subcommittee 4

  • Governs the entire STEP (ISO 10303) family of standards
  • Develops and maintains AP 210 under the Industrial data subcommittee

Open Source Maintenance

The AP 210 online resources, including this website, the research data archive, and educational materials, are maintained by the EXPRESS Language Foundation and the open source community at GitHub.

The research datasets are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0) to support open science and reproducible research.