caa a22 4500 397500629 CHVBK 20180308164531.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199502 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/spp/22.1.29 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/spp/22.1.29 Technical data interchange in the Eurofighter project [Elektronische Daten] [Graham Spinardi, Robin Williams, Ian Graham, Ian Graham] Electronic data interchange (EDI) has heen widely used for the exchange of retail orders and invoices, to avoid the expensive and time-consuming manual entry of data. The extension of this to the aerospace industry is considered here with specific reference to the designing and building of the Eurofighter. With four firms of different nationalities involved in the project, there have been a number of compromises required in the construction of a mutual database. This case shows that standardisation of data formats is not sufficient to enable the exchange of complex design data. Harmonisation of the companies' working practices is also necessary. The costs of such harmonisation, where these working practices are embedded in existing computer systems, can be very high, creating a significant barrier to the use of EDI for technical data exchange. © Beech Tree Publishing 1995 Spinardi Graham Research Centre for Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 56 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU, UK aut Williams Robin Research Centre for Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 56 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU, UK aut Graham Ian Research Centre for Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 56 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU, UK aut Graham Ian Department of Business Studies, University of Edinburgh Science and Public Policy Beech Tree Publishing 22/1(1995-02), 29-38 0302-3427 22:1<29 1995 22 spp https://doi.org/10.1093/spp/22.1.29 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/spp/22.1.29 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Spinardi Graham Research Centre for Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 56 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Williams Robin Research Centre for Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 56 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Graham Ian Research Centre for Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 56 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Graham Ian Department of Business Studies, University of Edinburgh NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science and Public Policy Beech Tree Publishing 22/1(1995-02), 29-38 0302-3427 22:1<29 1995 22 spp Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford