本SAE推荐实施规程定义了一个指导原则，通过指定供应商支持的具有多个性能和容量级别的功能，帮助工程用户选择工作站。这些工作站将满足不同的工程应用，同时保持互操作性。目标是指定一套标准，而不是一个工作站，供应商必须解决这些标准，以满足工程师在CAD、CAM、CAE和其他工程活动中的硬件和操作环境需求。

This SAE Recommended Practice defines a guideline to help engineering users select workstations by specifying of vendor supported functionality with several levels of performance and capacity. These workstations will satisfy different engineering applications while maintaining interoperability. The objective is to specify a set of standards, not a single workstation, which must be addressed by the vendors to meet the hardware and operating environment needs of engineers in their CAD, CAM, CAE and other engineering activities.