Semantic MDM NSI control system

The main articles are:

• Data management
• SaaS - History. Philosophy. Development drivers

The management system of NSI Semantic MDM (registered trademark) is the flagship product of SDI Solution, specially developed and adapted for Russian machine building. This is the enterprise's corporate NSI management system, which provides centralized storage and provision of reference information in a standardized form to all interested users and application automated systems. Semantic can be supplied as an independent application - an intelligent reference data store with a basic content, which implements the functions of an information and search engine, and as an NSI supplier to external applications - CAD, PDM, ERP, etc.

Semantic MDM is designed to create and maintain corporate information and technical directories, catalogs and classifiers across the industry, corporation, enterprise. The system supports the global identification of NSI objects and implements business processes for managing regulatory reference information required in the process of financial, economic, procurement and production activities of associations and organizations.

2024: Semantic MDM v23.2

On February 14, 2024, SDI SOLUTIONS JSC announced the release of the Semantic MDM v23.2 version.

«Semantic MDM» v23.2

According to the company, this version of Semantic MDM has support for historical data, expanded data search criteria, optimized work with the ontological data model and work with requests for creation/change records, Optima of some mechanisms of the import and replication and administration subsystems, enriching the extensibility functionality of the web client and implementing changes to the interface part of the system.

«Semantic MDM» v23.2

Maintaining Historical Data

For attributes with data type: String, Integer, Floating number. comma, Logical type, Multiline text, File is implemented to determine historical values ​ ​ valid up to a given number. Historical values can be specified for both a single attribute and a multiple attribute.

Keeping the attribute value historical allows you to:

• Display the item card with values that are up to date
• perform a quick search taking into account historical values;
• perform an advanced search taking into account historical values;
• search for duplicates taking into account historical values.

The system implements the ability for any item to enter its validity period by entering dates in the system attributes for the item Action start date and Action end date.

Maintaining the validity period of an item allows you to:

• Search for current items on a given date
• Display the hierarchical classifier that is up to date. Getting the current classifier structure for a given date is performed through an advanced search, when viewing the classifier structure;
• Display a list of composite items that are up to date.

Also, the following functionality for working with historical data is implemented:

• Adding historical item values from the requisition through the dialog to copy attribute values and from duplicates in the de-publishing dialog
• Export/import historical data to Excel, CSV, XML, and through the data replication import subsystem
• Specify functions for working with historical data in import and replication engine scripts, post-processor scripts, and claim preprocessing scripts.

Data search

In the updated version of the system, the following search criteria were added: by the change package number, by the change date, by the changed attribute/position, by the user login, by the number of values (for multiple attributes), by the value length (for string attributes), by the template.

Administration subsystem. Information security

This version has expanded the user privileges available for selection, added the ability to import domain users (LDAP) from Excel, and also the ability to edit access rights to groups and attribute declarations.

Application Management Subsystem

In the updated version, it is possible to maintain a directory of reasons for rejecting the application and select these reasons when returning the application to the applicant by specifying the reason code.

Web Client Extensibility

This version provides the following functionality:

• Replaces the standard change batch button.
• Replacing/hiding standard buttons in the button bar above:
  • the tree of classification groups and above the position table in the reference subsystem and in the hierarchical classifier;
  • application table and application card in the application management subsystem;
  • tree and table in the data configuration subsystem.

• Add your own buttons, replace/hide standard commands in the context menu for:
  • tree of groups and tables of positions in the subsystem "Directories";
  • Classification group trees and position tables in a hierarchical classifier
  • requisition tables in the requisition management subsystem;
  • trees and tables in the data configuration subsystem;
  • tabular representation of users in the Administration subsystem;
  • tables with password policies and tables with reasons for rejection.

• Handler overrides for the following events:
  • Select a template to create a purchase requisition
  • Change the value of the requisition attribute that initializes the requisition by the part/group
  • Click the Submit Request button.

• Add your own and redefine existing claim filtering panels in the claim management subsystem.
• Add your own buttons to the "Service Functions" section of the "Configuration" subsystem.

2019: Unified Register of Russian Programs for Computers and Databases of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia

At a regular meeting of the expert council of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of Russia on Russian software (software), after considering the relevant application from Esdai Risyoch LLC in September 2019 (the parent company of SDI SOLUTION JSC), it was decided to include the Semantic MDM regulatory reference information management system in the Unified Register of Russian programs for computers and databases of the Ministry of Communications of Russia. Since July 26, the Russian cloud MDM system "Semantic MDM" from the domestic developer SDI Research ( resident of the Skolkovo IC) has been present in the register of the Ministry of Communications of Russia.

The autonomous non-profit organization "Center for Competencies in Import Substitution in the Field of Information and Communication Technologies" conducted an examination of the Semantic MDM system software.

Conclusion: 'The copy submitted for examination operates under the Alt Linux operating system, Postgres PRO is used as a DBMS, WildFly as an application server, and OpenJDK as a java machine. The key components, exclusive rights to which belong to third parties, have not been identified. The presented software is distributed according to the SaaS model, restrictions established by foreign countries and preventing the distribution or other use of the program for electronic computers and databases in the Russian Federation or in the territories of certain constituent entities of the Russian Federation (subclause "b" of Clause 5 of the Rules) in the copy of the software submitted for examination were not identified. "In this way, the use of the Semantic MDM system fully complies with the terms of the Order of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation "On the Need for State Customers to Comply with the Requirements for Information Protection" from 28.04.2016. issued pursuant to Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1236 of 16.11.2015 "On the Establishment of a Ban on the Admission of Software, originating from foreign countries, for the purpose of making purchases to meet state and municipal needs. "

2018

Release of the cloud version of the MDM system for industrial production

On December 18, 2018, SDI Solution announced the release of a cloud semantic MDM system designed to create and maintain product catalogs and product classifiers on the scale of an industrial holding, corporation. The project was implemented by a subsidiary of EsdiAi Risyoch LLC, a resident of Skolkovo IC.

The description of the objects of regulatory reference information (NSI) in the environment providing centralized management of corporate master data of the enterprise allows you to store the most detailed information about the characteristics of equipment, tools, materials, components, etc., which is in demand both during procurement and in production conditions during design, design and manufacture.

The developed cloud service is designed to provide a single source of "truth" about NSI objects, maintaining the relevance, quality, completeness and reliability of information in order to implement the requirements of the novelty of promising production technologies, import substitution, as well as ensuring standardization and technical regulation processes, noted in "SDI Solution."

According to the developer, the cloud SaaS service provided as Software as a Service (SaaS) "software as a service" compared to desktop applications can reduce the cost of software ownership, speed up the system deployment process and manage data from anywhere. The functions of maintaining, configuring and filling corporate directories and classifiers are transferred to the customer. The developer is responsible for maintaining, maintaining and updating versions of the cloud service deployed on the resources of the high-performance data center (data center). End users get access to navigation and search functions, and operators and administrators get access to functions for entering, editing and configuring master data, managing requests for adding, modifying and ensuring the quality of data, importing/exporting, managing user rights, etc.

SDI Solutions noted that the cloud version of Semantic MDM has a three-link architecture that meets import substitution requirements:

• cross-platform server applications WildFly with; open source
• Open Support DBMS PostgreSQL source code
• support for various, operating systems including OS families:,,, etc Linux CentOS Astra Linux. ALT Linux

The Semantic MDM web client includes the following components:

• an object-oriented data model configuration module allowing dynamically forming class hierarchies based on a single dictionary of terms;
• a module for managing user requests for changes and adding new objects and documents to the NSI database;
• a module for importing and replicating data, which allows synchronizing NSI objects in application information systems with reference objects in Semantic MDM;
• user rights and privileges management module;
• a data quality management module, which allows, on the basis of machine learning, to bring the original master data to a normalized view.

Positioning features and competitive advantages of Semantic MDM, declared by the developer:

• High system performance on large amounts of data
• verified entry of master data based on restrictive tables;
• Quick search by object name, multi-criteria search by combination of attribute values, facet search
• semantic search taking into account the relationships of NSI objects;
• batch editing - transactionality of data change operations;
• statuses and versionality of objects, fixation and tracking of changes;
• Integration with leading CAD systems

The cost of a license for the Semantic MDM cloud service is determined by the annual subscription, explained in SDI Solutions. Updating versions of the cloud service is a simple and effective process that does not require user participation. During the annual subscription, the developer updates the server and client software, which automatically becomes available to all users of the system.

Alt Server Compatibility

December 10, 2018 "SDI SOLUTION" and "BASEALT" announced the successful testing of the product "Seman­tic" MDM manufactured by "SDI SOLUTION" and the operating system Alt Server 8 manufactured by "BASEALT."

The full compatibility and correctness of the products has been confirmed, which allows you to recommend the "Seman­tic" MDM software product for operation in Alt Server 8 operating systems.

Astra Linux Special Edition Compatibility Tests

On April 13, 2018, EsdiAi Risyoch LLC (a subsidiary of SDI SOLUTION JSC) granted the status of a technological partner to RusBITech-Astra LLC, under which the cloud version of Semantic MDM (the project was funded by Skolkovo IC) passed certification tests for compatibility with the special-purpose operating system (OS SN) Astra Linux Special Edition.

Certificate for compatibility with the Astra Linux Special Edition operating system (2018)

According to the results of joint tests, it was established that the Semantic MDM software and the Astra Linux Special Edition OS are fully compatible:

• "Semantic MDM" functions correctly in the OS "Astra Linux Special Edition," loaded with the Generic kernel.
• "Semantic MDM" functions correctly in the OS "Astra Linux Special Edition," loaded with the PaX kernel.

The cloud version of Semantic MDM is developed in a three-link architecture based on cross-platform servers WildFly and DBMS PostgreSQL open-source applications (). Open Source Objects of individual reference books in Semantic MDM are combined by various types of links, thanks to which the user can move from one object to another in the semantic master data network.

Implementation examples:

• Cloud catalog of metalworking equipment of the association "Machine Tools"
• Fragment of the catalog of the electronic component of the FSUE MNIIRIP base

The OS "Astra Linux Special Edition" is intended for use in automated systems in a secure version that process information of limited distribution, including state secrets to the degree of secrecy "top secret."

As part of the testing, the Java EE application server was executed in a virtual machine of the JRE execution system, which is part of the GosJava distribution kit developed by Laboratory 50 LLC.

GosJava provides a full Java Runtime Environment implementation based on OpenJDK. GosJava can be used to work in closed secure computer systems that meet the requirements of FSTEC and MO for automated systems that process confidential, secret and top secret information.

2013

Management system of NSI "Semantic" 2013

SDI Solution announced in January 2013 the release of a new software package consisting of:

• Control system of NSI "Semantic" 2013.
• CAD of technological processes "Timeline" 2013.
• Labor Regulation System (STN).
• Material rating system (SMN).
• System for calculation of cutting modes (PPR).

The key objectives of the complex are:

• centralized management of enterprise reference data and unification of services for their processing;
• automated design of technological processes of machine-building production, including standardization of material and labor costs;
• integration of complex components with CAD, CAM, PDM, MES and ERP systems based on unified NSI databases and standardization of data exchange protocols.

The complex includes design appendices of SMN, STN, PPR, which are an integral part of the Semantic 2013 system. All calculations are based on a single mechanism for processing table data according to a given scenario. The system is open and allows you to enter your own calculation algorithms using a special administration module.

A distinctive feature of the developed mechanism is the support of any calculation scenarios in the form of a wizard, with the help of which the user goes through a given number of steps and selects the values ​ ​ of parameters involved in the calculation in tables. The results of the calculations are saved in CAD Process Engineering 2013, either in an external system, or in an xls, xml file.

In addition to the result, the technology also retains the history of the calculation, which makes it technically reasonable, since there is always a link to the primary source - a reference book approved at the enterprise.

The use of SMN, STN, PPR in complex with CAD TP "Timeline" 2013 makes it possible to increase the degree of automation of calculations, since part of the necessary input data is read from the technological process, and not entered manually.

The calculations of cutting modes introduced in the Semantic 2013 system are based on the reference book "Cutting modes for turning and drilling-milling-boring machines with numerical program control. Edited by V.I. Guseev. - M.: Engineering, 2007. "

Calculation of consumption rates of the main material for measuring rolled products of various profiles is implemented on the basis of algorithms described in the reference book "Babaev F.V. Normalization of consumption of rolled metal and steel pipes in industry. - M.: Mechanical engineering, 2010. " The system includes spreadsheets that are completely identical to the tables from the reference literature on which the calculation was configured.

In the latest version of "Semantic" 2013, over 250 user offers are implemented for the development of system functionality, user interface, performance, configuration and configuration capabilities:

• Integration of Semantic 2013 with Solid Edge ST5, Creo, and NX CAD
• a reference book of standard products was developed, including about 30 thousand models in STEP format;
• A new mechanism for creating an object symbol has been created.
• Optimized system performance
• improved mechanism of multi-criteria search of objects:
  • Calculated attribute values are stored in the database and can be searched for;
  • Search options can be saved to a user group;
  • Search options can be saved in reference to the object type.
  • Search criteria values can be selected from a predefined list;

• improved Semantic system interface:
  • updated the interface of the "Materials and Assortments" reference books;
  • the ability to create an arbitrary number of levels for different branches of the directory;
  • the ability to save the working environment of a particular user;
  • copy and move objects from one branch of the reference book to another using the Drag & Drop operation;
  • The DragDrop operation of document files into Windows Explorer, etc. is implemented;

• documents are compressed when they are saved in the database;
• expanded and improved functionality for searching duplicate records, logging user actions, multiple classification mechanism, messaging, and much more.

The complex that combines CAD TP "Timeline," control system NSI "Semantic," SMN, STN, PPR, is an integral part of the unified system of automation of design and technological preparation of production, focused on solving two key problems:

• calculation of labour intensity, material consumption and cost of products manufacturing;
• deduplication of enterprise reference data.

Integration with Autodesk Inventor 2013

Integration of the Semantic NSI Control System with Autodesk Inventor 2013 has been implemented. A design kit consisting of Autodesk Inventor, a reference book for Materials and Components, which can be supplied both as standalone applications and as part of other system reference books. There are special price conditions for the delivery of the design kit.

Semantic reference books are developed in accordance with the description principles adopted in the Russian Federation (according to GOST, OST, TU). In particular, the Materials handbook consists of three separate classifiers:

• · Material classifier.
• · Sort classifier.
• · Classifier of the Supply Specification.
• Search for the required item is carried out by:
• · the material designation line
• · a material brand
• · variety;
• · specifications.

In the drawing stamp, the material can be written in two-line form. The Materials Reference Book contains basic, auxiliary, instrumental and other materials. The Semantic database contains more than 6,000 grades of materials, of which 2700 are auxiliary, and more than 70,000 are types of assortments.

You can access the Parts Reference directly from the Autodesk Inventor 2013 menu. The developed search engine "Semantic" significantly reduces the selection time, allowing you to search not only by geometric parameters, but also by strength class, coating type, maximum load and other parameters.

All components added from Semantic to the 3D assembly of Autodesk Inventor 2013 are automatically included in the BOM, and the product name is created in accordance with GOST.

The basic delivery of the Reference Book of Components contains a description of 85 regulatory documents with 30 thousand 3D models. The reference book provides the user with a detailed attributive description of objects, as well as regulatory documents (GOST, OST, etc.) in various formats (Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, TIFF, etc.). To add a description of a new product to the reference, you must have a 3D model and an Excel table with a description of the types.

The control system of the Semantic NSI has an ergonomic interface, provides ease of mastering and ease of operation, implements multi-criteria quick search for information in the database, works with restrictive lists, contains a built-in reference book of measured values, which allows displaying numerical values ​ ​ of attributes in the required unit of measurement.

Semantic specialized reference books ensure the unity of materials and assortments, standard and components used at the enterprise. They can serve as a single source of corporate data for all information systems.

2012

In the NSI Semantic database - more than 200 thousand engineering facilities

The difference from foreign MDM systems, focused primarily on the centralized management of data on products and customers, is that the domestic Semantic system is configured for machine-building production and allows you to take into account its specifics in the field of design, management and decision-making.

So, database NSI Semantic includes more than 200 thousand engineering facilities, passport data of more than 2000 models of equipment for machining, stamping, heat treatment, welding, etc.; classifier of technological operations and transitions, etc.

Integration with Solid Edge ST5

In the fall of 2012, the integration of the Semantic Regulatory Reference Information Management System (NSI) with the Solid Edge ST5 CAD system was implemented. The integration solution will allow Solid Edge users to quickly find reference data on materials and assortments, standard and components in the Semantic database during the design process.

Semantic is the flagship software product of SDI Soluiton, specially developed for Russian engineering enterprises. The system provides centralized storage and provision of corporate reference information in a standardized form to all interested users and application automated systems.

Advantages of the "design kit" based on the "Semantic" and Solid Edge systems:

• Integration of "Semantic" directly into the Solid Edge interface, which provides quick and convenient use of search engine functions for working with graphically illustrated engineering data.
• The advanced search mechanism allows you to find standard products by:
  • ­ geometric parameters;
  • ­ physical and mechanical characteristics;
  • ­ maximum allowable load;
  • ­ the operating conditions of the product;
  • Image ­.

• Quick access to regulatory reference documentation (GOST, OST, TU, etc.) when selecting standard products.
• Automatic designation of a standard product according to GOST and its transfer to the corresponding section of the specification.
• The ability to control the applicability of objects, including filtering reference data based on restrictive lists for:
  • ­ products;
  • ­ types of production;
  • ­ organizational structures;
  • ­ other parameters.

• Log changes and reference usage, and more.

2011: NSI Semantic. Description

Unlike foreign MDM systems, focused primarily on centralized management of data about products and customers, Semantic's domestic system is tuned to machine-building production and allows you to take into account its specifics in the field of design, management and decision-making.

As of July 2011, Semantic's feature is semantic data integration, which allows you to find optimal solutions in a network of interconnected technological objects. The use of semantic technologies in CAD will create a new class of intelligent systems with a high level of decision automation.

The basic delivery of the system contains a large number of specialized databases: classifiers of technological operations and transitions, reference books of materials and standard products, equipment, guest tools, etc. In total, more than 200,000 engineering facilities. NSI

Simultaneously with the release of the system [1] , the company's website was opened, which contains information materials and videos demonstrating the operation of the system.

Semantic is an integral part of the integrated system of automation of design and technological preparation of production. SDI Solution developers have many years of unique experience in creating computer-aided process design (CAD) systems. The authors of the team are the well-known CAD TP "Avtoproekt" ("Research Institute of Aviation Technologies," project start 1987) and CAD TP "Vertical" (ZAO "ASCON," project start 2002), introduced at dozens of the largest enterprises in Russia and the CIS.

Semantic videos are located on the site page http://www.sdi-solution.ru/index.php/products/korporativnaya-sistema-upravleniya-nsi-semantic

• Обзор http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gomL51KR9jM
• Поиск http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7_A-fkHiw
• Editing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtXp5JiUMo Data

In 4.5 and 6 issues of the magazine "CAD and Graphics" three articles were published on the management of NSI at engineering enterprises:

• "Reference Data Management - Analytical Market Overview."
• "Principles of building semantic MDM systems."
• "Corporate management system of NSI" Semantic. ""

see the site page http://www.sdi-solution.ru/index.php/products/pochemu-semantic-pochemu-sejchas

In 2011, together with the release of the corporate management system of the NSI "Semantic," the release of the following software products is planned:

• CAD of technological processes "Timeline."
• AWS of labor and material rationing.

These systems will be more productive and functional, distinguished by qualitatively new innovative solutions in the field of semantic data management, it is easier to integrate into software complexes operating in the enterprise, as well as ensure the continuity of existing developments.