Committed 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® Acrobat® and Adobe LiveCycle® products support the many industry standards founded on XML. PDF documents, which are created and controlled with LiveCycle products and support XML schema, help organizations extend the value and reach of enterprise applications.
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Standards and architectural principles used in manufacturing that Adobe supports
File formats
- PDF: Invented by Adobe Systems and perfected over 17 years, PDF is now a formal, open standard maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO 32000 contains the complete PDF specification and is the foundation for derivative standards.
- PDF/A: A ratified (10/05) 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.
- U3D: Adobe supports the open and extensible Universal 3D (U3D) format developed by 3DIF ECMA and others for the sharing and visualization of 3D data.
Standards organizations
- iNEMI (International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative): The new IPC standard — IPC-1752 — will help standardize materials content declarations across the entire supply chain. The standard will include Adobe PDF forms for request-response and supplier self-declaration.
- IPC/WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment): Adobe is supporting IPC, electronic/electrical industry standards group, to provide a rights-enabled Material Composition Declaration (MCD) PDF form (IPC 1752) 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 EU.
- RosettaNet: RosettaNet Automated Enablement (RAE) has adopted Adobe PDF, XML Data Package (XDP), and XML Forms Architecture (XFA) for inventory, order, forecast, and materials composition collaboration.
- UN/CEFACT (United Nations Centre for Facilitation of Trade and Commerce): Adobe is a key participant in UN/CEFACT standards activities for trade documentation and business intelligence. The UN has built a toolkit for UN eDocs using LiveCycle and PDF.
- S1000D is an XML-based standard for technical documentation and is supported through Adobe FrameMaker® software and the Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP), with output support in PDF. The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is the widely adopted approach to make learning content communicate with a Learning Management Systems (LMSs). With support for SCORM, rich media content can share information with an LMS, and SCORM content can be supported in a PDF file.
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