Standards
What is a standard?
A standard is a reference, a recommendation, adopted by a community. It comes close to the notion of a standard, without being totally mandatory. The GALIA standards (and by extension Odette) are used among players in the automotive industry (Manufacturers, equipment suppliers, suppliers, service providers and solution providers, etc.).
Depending on the subject or process involved, the standard takes several forms. It can represent an operating mode (organization of exchanges between customer and supplier, etc.), a procedure (management of forecasts, etc.), technical specifications (characteristics of packaging, etc.) or functional (label data, etc.), a model of data to be exchanged (structure of EDI messages, etc.), a tool to help build a process (management of long-term archiving, etc.), specifications for the development of IT solutions (criteria for analyzing the quality of a CAD model…) or a shared and auditable repository (Global MMOG / LE, functions present in an ERP…).
What is the use of a standard?
The standard contributes to efficiency and performance. It offers a benchmark of proven best practices, validated by experts. It guarantees interoperability between different partners. It avoids studying and asking questions. It acts as a specification when purchasing products or services or when developing IT solutions. Taken into account by consulting firms, implemented by solution editors, it speeds up deployments. It facilitates the development of commercial activities with new partners. So it saves time for those who implement it and those who use it.
What is the use of a standard?
GALIA brings together companies from the automotive industry on issues relating to the exchange of goods and information. For more than 30 years, industrial experts have been meeting to identify good business practices. Lot of work is carried out jointly with our global partners.
To maintain this intellectual capital, GALIA continues to call on its members to adapt the standards to the changing needs of the supply chain or engineering. GALIA approaches other sectors whenever automotive processes require it.
The resources pooling within GALIA (Collaborative working groups, detachment of experts, appropriation of external work, etc.) results in a “leverage effect” beneficial to each company, which optimizes its investment in days / hours and the cost of solutions …
Rigid plastic boxes “New generation” (English version)
This recommendation defines manufacturing characteristics and testing procedure for the Range 1.1 of rigid plastic boxes composed of 5 modular boxes and one length box.
Bacs rigides en plastique “Nouvelle génération” (French version)
This recommendation defines manufacturing characteristics and testing procedure for the Range 1.1 of rigid plastic boxes composed of 5 modular boxes and one length box.
White Paper on the measurement data exchange standard (English version)
The objective of this document is to present all aspects of PROMETHEA, one of the projects of the “Digital Continuity in Extended Enterprises” axis of the VALdriv PLM program. It accompanies the publication of the implementation guide for our standard exchange protocol. It also specifies the approval process that will be offered to any software publishing company that wishes to implement solutions based on PROMETHEA
Specifications of exchange data format based on STEP AP242 BOM XML Edition 1
This document describes how to implement the standard data exchange protocole and format issued from PROMETHEA project. It can be used by any software editor that wishes to implement PROMETHEA-based solutions. An homologation process will help to validate the quality of its implementation.
Livre Blanc sur le standard d‘échanges de données mesure (French version)
The objective of this document is to present all aspects of PROMETHEA, one of the projects of the “Digital Continuity in Extended Enterprises” axis of the VALdriv PLM program. It accompanies the publication of the implementation guide for our standard exchange protocol. It also specifies the approval process that will be offered to any software publishing company that wishes to implement solutions based on PROMETHEA.
Palettes en bois (French version)
This standard defines characteristics and rules for the use of pallets, applicable for all automotive products with which this type of packaging is used.
Disposable wooden pallets (English Version)
This standard defines characteristics and rules for the use of pallets, applicable for all automotive products with which this type of packaging is used.
Why use GALIA packaging standards? (English version)
GALIA defines Packaging standards (Cardboard packaging, Plastic boxes, wooden pallets, …) used by Automotive industry partners.
French version available here
Pourquoi les standards d’emballages GALIA ? (French version)
GALIA defines Packaging standards (Cardboard packaging, Plastic boxes, wooden pallets, …) used by Automotive industry partners.
English version available here
Key Performance Indicators for Automotive Supply Chain Management
This recommendation defines standard key performance indicators for materials management and logistics in the automotive industry. Common indicators will facilitate understanding between business partners, align with the requirements of Global MMOG/LE and support risk management.
ENGDAT V3
This recommendation specifies the content, structure, and format of a machine-readable delivery note (abstract, or content description) of exchanged technical data files.
Global MMOG/LE V4 (English version)
This tool of audit and Logistics self assessment is a global recommendation of best practices of the industry for Supply Chain process.
Global MMOG/LE for Carriers and Logistics Services Providers (LSPs)
This document contains recommended business practices for Carrier and LSP processes. This document can be used by an individual organization within the supply chain as a self-assessment or can be used between business partners as an audit tool. In both cases the resulting evaluation provides a comprehensive assessment of Carrier and LSP performance and capability.
Guidelines for reporting freight greenhouse gas emissions
Freight Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting is becoming an increasingly important topic for the industry and cannot be ignored. New standards are being published and there are rising demands for data both from external customers and public bodies as well as to meet the internal GHG accounting objectives of companies. These Guidelines have been bublished specifically for the automotive sector. They are directed at helping all those involved to understand the basic principles and to adopt a consistent approach that will support both recent and future standards and legislative requirements. Rather than introducting new methodologies, these Guidelines make recommendations based on use of the most appropriate existing initiatives. These are initiatives being adopded by industry as a whole and so these Guidelines may be helpful fo those engaged in other sectors besides automotive.