Minutes of STEP Manufacturing meeting in Charleston

[Evan K. Wallace]

Martin Hardwick wrote:

>The team recommended the USA submit an NWI for STEP-NC
>to SC4 with the proviso that the NWI references 14649-11
>as its ARM. Seven countries (USA, Switzerland, Germany,
>UK, Japan, Korea and Sweden) indicated that they would be
>able to nominate technical experts to the NWI.

I don't understand (sorry, I missed part of the meeting).  
Wasn't the model described at this meeting from 14649-51? 
Wouldn't it become an IS through it's host SC?  Why do 
we need a corresponding NWI in SC4?

>The team agree to meet in Portugal for one day on the
>Thursday. Agenda items are to be sent to Martin Hardwick
>and the new exploder for STEP-manufacturing. The agenda
>will include an update on the 14649 AIM and AP-213.
 
Do I understand correctly that this meeting in Portugal will
be the Integrated Manufacturing Task Force combined with 
whatever group is looking at the 14649 "AIM."  Is one day 
enough to talk about the IM AAM, a revised AP213 ARM and 
an 14649 AIM?


Evan K. Wallace
Manufacturing Systems Integration Division
NIST
ewallace at nist.gov