Sunday, 22 April 2012

Electronic Supplies

Electronic Supplies Biography
The Railroad Industry Forum (RIF) is a team of the National Association of Purchasing Managers who were tasked to develop a standard for the exchange of electronic parts catalog data within the North American railroad industry. The RIF members are comprised of major railroads and railroad manufacturers. Mary McCarthy and Betty Harvey, Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. developed the EPCES DTD.
EPCES - Electronic Parts Catalog Exchange Standard, is a standard that was developed by the RIF for interchange and presentation of illustrated parts catalogs. The presentation of EPCES information has been designed to facilitate point and click capability.
LinkOne is an electronic parts catalog and service manual delivery system. It has been developed to enable electronic viewing of parts and service information for manufactured equipment and processes. LinkOne provides point and click functionality between graphics and textual information.
ISOGEN International Corp. has developed an EPCES filter for LinkOne to support importing and/or exporting parts catalog information from the manufacturers or railroads in SGML compliant to the EPCES standard.

To support the proliferation of EPC's, the Rail Industry Forum (RIF) Subcommittee on Information Standards (Task Team) contracted with Applied Image Technology (AIT) to develop the Electronic Parts Catalog Exchange Standard (EPCES).

Members of the RIF Task Team consisted of members from major railroad companies and suppliers:
  • Amerail
  • Amtrack
  • Bombardier, Inc.
  • Burlington Northern
  • Conrail
  • CN Rail
  • CSX
  • CTA
  • EMD
  • General Electric
  • WW Grainger
  • Long Island Railroad
  • Metro North Commuter
  • New York Air Brake
  • Nortfolk Southern
  • Southern Pacific
  • Union Pacific
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