3843 Digital Exposure of Mass Properties Data
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Paper
Abstract
Providing mass properties data for the consumption of others is, and may always be, a deliberate act. Whether that data takes the form of a periodic data deliverable, like a status report, or a specific
response to a customer question, Mass Properties Engineers must frequently mine and manipulate data to satisfy the needs of others. The data maintained within any mass properties database has a breadth that far exceeds simple numerical values of weight, center of gravity, and inertia. Most often, a database includes a labyrinth of codes and descriptors necessary to sort, parse, and aggregate those core numerical values in a meaningful way. Few people other than the Mass Properties Engineers tasked with maintaining that data have any real success gathering/assessing the data sufficiently well to satisfy specific data requests. As a result, both Mass Properties Engineers and customers persist in a request/provide, request/provide paradigm. Even when considering periodic data deliverables, this cycle is preserved (with an implied request). Establishing methods by which mass properties data can be openly exposed, in a meaningful way, serves to break down this cycle. Many data requests need not be asked again; the data is always available without request. In some cases, periodic data deliverables are challenged, relegated to historical practices, as they are replaced by real-time or near-real-time data. However, realizing such a paradigm-breaking scenario cannot occur without one thing – a deliberate act to do so. This paper presents fundamental changes which enable digital exposure of mass properties data.
