Commitment to manufacturing standards
Standards are essential to facilitate interoperability, flexibility, and scalability and to streamline regulatory compliance. Adobe is committed to establishing, promoting, and supporting industry standards in manufacturing. As an active member in key standards bodies, Adobe continuously tracks manufacturing industry needs and trends from an IT perspective.
Adobe products support many industry standards including XML and PDF, helping organizations extend the reach of enterprise applications.
Manufacturing standards and architectural principles that Adobe supports include the following.
File formats
- PDF/A: A recently ratified (October 2005) ISO standard for electronic document archiving, PDF/A was developed by a working group that included Adobe and numerous other participants in government and industry. It is a key component in ensuring manufacturers' document retention compliance. To learn more, read the PDF/A white paper.
- PDF/E: An ISO standard candidate developed by a working group led by AIIM, PDF/E facilitates the exchange of engineering documentation in manufacturing, as well as in the geospatial, architecture, engineering, and construction industries.
Standards organizations
- IPC/RoHS: The new IPC standard, IPC-1752, will help standardize material content declaration across the entire supply chain. Adobe is supporting IPC, the electronic/electrical industry standards group, to provide a rights-enabled Material Composition Declaration (MCD) PDF form (IPC-1752) for request-response and supplier self-declaration. In response to the recent EU RoHS/WEEE directives, the IPC-1752 MCD form will be used by producers of electrical and electronic products whose product is ultimately consumed in the European Union.
- RosettaNet: RosettaNet Automated Enablement (RAE) has adopted Adobe PDF, XML Data Package (XDP), and XML Forms Architecture (XFA) for inventory, order, forecast, and material composition collaboration.
- UN/CEFACT (United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business): Adobe is a key participant in UN/CEFACT standards activities for trade documentation and business intelligence. The United Nations has built a toolkit for UN eDocs using Adobe LiveCycle software and Adobe PDF.
- S1000D is an XML-based standard for technical documentation and is supported through Adobe FrameMaker software and XMP, the metadata standard, with output support in PDF. The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is the widely adopted approach to making learning content communicate with a learning management system (LMS). With support for SCORM, Flash content can share information with an LMS, and SCORM content can be supported in a PDF file.
Learn more
Read about Adobe's leadership in developing industry standards and Adobe's commitment to building technology solutions that embrace industry standards.
Learn more about how Adobe is participating in the development of archiving standards.
Find out how PDF/E improves the display, exchange, and printing of large-format documents that include layers and 3D content.
