The CGM Implementation at McDonnell Douglas

Abstract

More and more, businesses are requiring the integration of technical information to increase the effectiveness of information interchange between the office and the factory. In particular, within the engineering, manufacturing, administration and product support constituencies of the aerospace industry, one of the most vital information interchange services is the ability to interchange graphics in a heterogeneous computer environment. At McDonnell Douglas, the integration of the Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) into the Corporation is the result of a need for a single graphics file format that can meet the robust requirements of graphical interchange between internal applications, as well as external subcontractors, teaming partners and customers.