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Office Furniture Modeling Language (OFML) is a standard of the BSO (Der Verband Büro-, Sitz- und Objektmöbel e.V.), or the German Furniture Manufacturers Association.〔(UltimateBook )〕 It was created in 1995 to provide a common method of describing furniture products. Currently the standard is widely accepted in Austria, Switzerland and the Benelux. ==Motivations== OFML is the result of a series of requirements that could generally not be met with past solutions: * The new requirements in the area of planning and visualization of furniture cannot be met alone by CAD-based systems. The main problems of CAD-based solutions are the enormous data size, the poor parameterizability and configurability, insufficient product logic, insufficient interactivity and complicated operation. These disadvantages are specially magnified in the areas of sales and marketing-oriented processes. * A platform-independent and software manufacturer-independent data format which allows an unlimited number of software manufacturers to offer systems and solutions so that monopolizing conditions can be avoided or eliminated. * The new data format also allows for the implementation of a series of applications that are compatible with respect to the data in spite of different orientation. In this way it is possible to achieve compatibility and, therefore, technological uniformity between manufacturer, trade, and end user systems.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「OFML」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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