The Open Concurrent Design Server (OCDS) is an initiative of the

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The OCDS aimed to provide the building blocks of a Concurrent, Collaborative and Distributed Engineering for the European Space Industry, using Open Standards Information Models and Reference Libraries. The OCDS aimed to be the vehicle to distribute ESA's

Concurrent Design Facility The Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) is the European Space Agency main assessment center for future space missions and industrial review. Located at ESTEC, ESA's technical center in Noordwijk in The Netherlands, it has been operational since early ...

Concurrent Design methodology and a set of tools to the

Space industry Space industry refers to economic activities related to manufacturing components that go into Earth's orbit or beyond, delivering them to those regions, and related services. Owing to the prominence of the satellite-related activities, some sour ...

, organisations and academia. At the same time it distributes an open

data exchange Data exchange is the process of taking data structured under a ''source'' schema and transforming it into a ''target'' schema, so that the target data is an accurate representation of the source data.A. Doan, A. Halevy, and Z. Ives.Principles of da ...

standard for early phase space system

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

and design activities described in ECSS-E-TM-10-25. The OCDS helps the European Space Community to: * Increase

Data Management Data management comprises all disciplines related to handling data as a valuable resource. Concept The concept of data management arose in the 1980s as technology moved from sequential processing (first punched cards, then magnetic tape) to r ...

Capabilities, including Life Cycle Data Management * Support the information longevity objective * Achieve a hardware and

software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...

independent solution * Optimise the design process * Consolidate Design Models in a repository based on

open standard An open standard is a standard that is openly accessible and usable by anyone. It is also a prerequisite to use open license, non-discrimination and extensibility. Typically, anybody can participate in the development. There is no single definition ...

s * Improve communication to Contractors and partners, using Open and publicly available standards (e.g. ISO, ECSS, ....) * Streamline the communications to other ESA corporate applications using model based integration * Connect data to product assurance (PA/QA) activities.

Industrial Consortium

The OCDS has been developed under ESA contract by a

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Status

The OCDS development was abandoned, the software was never used in production. The development was redirected to a new development called Open Concurrent Design Tool (OCDT).

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