{"id":3340,"date":"2023-07-14T16:03:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cimsource.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:45:37","slug":"cimsource-awesome-did-you-know-stobandstandards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/2023\/07\/14\/cimsource-awesome-did-you-know-stobandstandards\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2 | CIMSOURCE? Awesome! &#8211; Did you know&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>#StOBandStandards<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">&#8220;The secret of success lies in the consistency of the goal.&#8221; <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">This <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">quote <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">of Benjamin Disreali tells the driving force behind Standard OpenBase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle4\">It was hard work, no fake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Born in the CIM era (Computer Integrating Manufacturing), CIMSOURCE and its partners from RWTH Aachen university (<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">WZL<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">) and 4 leading tool manufactures <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">Sandvik, Kennametal, Widia,<br \/>\nCeratizit <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">joined forces to lay the foundation for the seamless data flow from CAD to CAM along the NC process chain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">The consortium realized that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle0\">If you want to digitize, you need a <\/span><strong><span class=\"fontstyle2\">database<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"fontstyle3\">.<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle0\">If you want to communicate to customers, you need an <\/span><strong><span class=\"fontstyle2\">open database<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"fontstyle3\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I<span class=\"fontstyle0\">f you want to reach many customers efficiently, you need a <\/span><strong><span class=\"fontstyle2\">standard open database<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"fontstyle3\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em> <span class=\"fontstyle0\">The conclusion is StOB (Standard Open<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">B<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">ase), <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">the standard data format first issued in 1995 by CIMSOURCE and its partners.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that EMO is called &#8220;<strong>Exposition<\/strong> Mondiale de la <strong>Machine Outil<\/strong>&#8220;?<\/p>\n<p>CS-Professional is <span class=\"fontstyle0\">the predecessor of ToolsUnited presented at EMO 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4651\" src=\"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EMO-in-Paris-1999-e1689341857525-1024x850.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EMO-in-Paris-1999-e1689341857525-1024x850.png 1024w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EMO-in-Paris-1999-e1689341857525-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EMO-in-Paris-1999-e1689341857525-768x637.png 768w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/EMO-in-Paris-1999-e1689341857525.png 1074w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4649\" src=\"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ToolsUnited-before-the-cloud-mit-Hintergrund-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ToolsUnited-before-the-cloud-mit-Hintergrund-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ToolsUnited-before-the-cloud-mit-Hintergrund-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ToolsUnited-before-the-cloud-mit-Hintergrund-2-150x150.jpg?crop=1 150w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ToolsUnited-before-the-cloud-mit-Hintergrund-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ToolsUnited-before-the-cloud-mit-Hintergrund-2-270x270.jpg?crop=1 270w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ToolsUnited-before-the-cloud-mit-Hintergrund-2-230x230.jpg?crop=1 230w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ToolsUnited-before-the-cloud-mit-Hintergrund-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Despite economic ups and downs, technology hypes coming and busting, the come and go of diverse standardiziation initiatives, StOB is still there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">StOB puts standards like DIN 4000 and ISO 13399 into practice. The most widely used data standard in the industry. CIMSOURCE keeps it up.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>AWESOME!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\">Learn more in our <a href=\"https:\/\/info.toolsunited.com\/stob-and-standards-blog\/\">StOB&amp;Standards Blog<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">CIMSOURCE evaluated early on how <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">AI <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">in general and <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">pattern recognition <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">in particular might help to automate data preparation. Stay tuned to learn more stunning facts about CIMSOURCE\u2019s achievements. And see the opportunities that provides for your business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4674 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/EMO-Banner-ENG-vendor-managed-product-data-1024x403.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/EMO-Banner-ENG-vendor-managed-product-data-1024x403.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/EMO-Banner-ENG-vendor-managed-product-data-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/EMO-Banner-ENG-vendor-managed-product-data-768x302.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/EMO-Banner-ENG-vendor-managed-product-data-1536x604.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cimsource.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/EMO-Banner-ENG-vendor-managed-product-data-2048x806.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#StOBandStandards &#8220;The secret of success lies in the consistency of the goal.&#8221; This quote of Benjamin Disreali tells the driving force behind Standard OpenBase. It was hard work, no fake. Born in the CIM era (Computer Integrating Manufacturing), CIMSOURCE and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235391239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235391239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4676,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/4676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimsource.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}