Minutes of STEP Manufacturing meeting in Charleston

[Martin Hardwick]

At 01:27 PM 10/24/00 -0400, Evan K. Wallace wrote:
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>Martin Hardwick wrote:
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>>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.
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>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?

Evan,

14649-51 will be replaced by the new AP. The reason for
doing the AP inside SC4 is that it understands the process
and requirements that must be met by an AIM.

The full process that we are going to follow is documented
in 14649-1 as three phases:

1. Develop an ARM in SC1
2. Develop an AIM in SC4
3. Develop implementation methods in SC1

We do not know yet if phase 3 will be necessary but there
is reason to believe that efficient programming using
STEP-NC will require specialized implementation methods.

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>>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.
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>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?

No not if the main focus of the IMTF feed back will be to this
group. However, I do not know because the main focus of the feedback
maybe to SC4 (in one of the plenary's).

I am happy to add extra days, so long as I have some control over
when the 14649 AIM is discussed because of potential conflicts
in my schedule with the Implementors Forum and Wg11.

Martin

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