Standards have been developed to provide means of exchange and archival of engineering design data within automotive industry. In most cases, the simple use of these standards is not enough. Indeed, the usage of such standards requires the development of recommendations and methodologies providing specific rules and processes that will guide the user on how the standard is to be used in a given context. This paper will present examples of data exchange problems with some examples of methodologies developed to solve them, and - automotive recommendations developed in several domains such as PDM data exchange, Product Data Quality, Long Term Arching and Retrieval, etc. how they are used within the industrial processes.