PACE releases design software Pacelab Suite 2.2

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(2008), "PACE releases design software Pacelab Suite 2.2", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 80 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2008.12780aad.016

PACE releases design software Pacelab Suite 2.2

PACE releases design software Pacelab Suite 2.2

Berlin software provider PACE recently announced the release of Pacelab Suite 2.2. The latest version of its knowledge- based engineering software for multidisciplinary preliminary design introduces a role-based access control plug-in which improves data security and consistency in distributed collaborative work environments.

The preliminary design of complex technical systems such as aircraft typically involves decentralised teams organised according to discipline or subcomponent. Moreover, today's suppliers and partners are deeply integrated into manufacturers' business processes and IT infrastructure. The constant exchange of critical data in these collaborative and concurrent engineering processes poses substantial risks to data consistency and intellectual property rights.

Pacelab Suite 2.2 is said to address these issues with a new plug-in that grants access to sensitive information and privileged actions through work roles, which may be freely combined to cover the tasks and responsibilities of a user within the team. For maximum flexibility, Pacelab's access control is fully configurable and enables a fine- grained, customer-specific allocation of rights; its open structure also allows the integration of additional features and authentication methods.

With the new plug-in, Pacelab Suite expands on its core strength of supporting multidisciplinary design processes, adding benefit to a unique knowledge modelling approach that accommodates parameters, methods and design strategies from diverse disciplines in a unified data model. Stored and administered in Pacelab's central repository, this engineering knowledge can be distributed across departments and organisations in a consistent and standardised manner. The new version is also fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista.

Details available from: PACE Aerospace Engineering and Information Technology GmbH; Tel: +49 30 293 62 0; Fax: +49 30 293 62 111, USA: Tel: +1 706 354 5492, Fax: +1 706 243 4943.