ASME Y14.47-2019 details a classification of maturity states that could prove useful for your technical data. This is a relatively new standardized concept, and very little guidance is given about how this might be applied.

Maturity

Describes the intended use of a data set for the product life cycle. | Designator 1 | Name | Description | | :---------: | ------- | ------------ | |M1 | Conceptual | “A data set that is used when there is a need to verify preliminary design and engineering and to confirm that the technology is feasible and that the design concept has the potential to be useful in meeting a specific requirement.” |M2 | Developmental | “A data set that is used for testing or experimentation and for the analytical evaluation of the inherent ability of the design approach to attain the required performance.” | M3 | Production | “A data set that is used for the commission, operation, service, and decommission of a product.” | M4 | Archive | “A data set that is used to store the product information for preservation.”

Geometry Completeness

Describes the level of detail present in a model. | Designator 2 | Name | Description | | :---------: | ------- | ------------ | |G1 | None | “The model that is created with no distinctions made for individual features.” |G2 | Partial | “The model that has a portion of the features represented.” | G3 | Full | “The model that has all features represented.”

Annotation and Attribute Completeness

Describes the completeness of attached annotations and attributes. | Designator 3 | Name | Description | | :---------: | ------- | ------------ | |A1 | None | “No annotations or attributes that are in the data set are intended to be used to define the product.” |A2 | Partial | “The data set that contains a subset of all of the annotations or attributes intended to be used to define the product.” | A3 | Full | “The data set that contains all of the annotations or attributes [including items such as general notes and other product and manufacturing information (PMI)] without querying the model geometry intended to be used to define the product.”

Footnotes

  1. ASME Y14.47-2019 paragraph 5.2

  2. ASME Y14.47-2019 paragraph 5.3

  3. ASME Y14.47-2019 paragraph 5.4

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