Tendencies and condition in the field of reference data management in the engineering industry

MANAGEMENT IN THE ENGINEERING INDUSTRY The article examines the principles of centralized management of corporate background information in the engineering industry. The use of semantic data models in these systems - Master Data Management (MDM) will make them effective in working with engineering data and semantic integration of MDM and CAD will create a new class of competitive intelligence software systems. As an example of new trends is provides a brief description of the functionality of the control system reference data "Semantic", adapted to the conditions of domestic engineering and integrated with the products of Autodesk, a world leader in CAD.