The Open Concurrent Design Server (OCDS) is an initiative of the European Space Agency, ESA. The OCDS aimed to provide the building blocks of a Concurrent, Collaborative and Distributed Engineering for the European Space Industry, using Open Standards Information Models and Reference Libraries.
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The OCDS aimed to be the vehicle to distribute ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility Concurrent Design methodology and a set of tools to the Space industry, organisations and academia. At the same time it distributes an open data exchange standard for early phase space system engineering and design activities described in ECSS-E-TM-10-25.
The OCDS helps the European Space Community to:
Industrial Consortium
The OCDS has been developed under ESA contract by a Consortium led by DNV with the support of EPMT, Daysha, and Critical as subcontractors.
Status
The OCDS development was abandoned, the software was never used in production. The development was redirected to a new development called Open Concurrent Design Tool (OCDT).