[step-manufacturing] 9th AP-238 CC1 testing telcon

[Martin Hardwick]

All,

The final telcon before the demonstration next week will be
on Friday as shown below.

Date: 1/28/05 - Friday 
Time: 2:00-3:00 EST, 1:00-2:00 CST , 11:00 am to 12:00 Noon PST
Dial in number: 425-717-7000 or 866-350-0777
Passcode: 71791#

The agenda for the meeting:

1. Update on status of testing
2. Final run-through of the demonstration logistics.
3. Preliminary discussion of what might be included
   in the next round of testing.

Examples:

Drilling, reaming, tapping, boring Operations
        Better HMI shows what is happening
        Take advantage of the canned cyles on the machine
        Map common operations of the CAM systems to AP-238
        Map AP-238 operations to the common canned cycles
        Show advantage of STEP-NC compilation and portability
Process Monitoring
        Enhance CAM writer to capture minimal feature data
        Hole depth, pocket contour, etc
        Enhance CNC to record process data
        Show customers can use data to check for required part characteristics
Faster machining of Splines
        Data compression
        Dynamic time, accuracy trade-off's on the control
        Map CAM splines to AP-238
        Implement algorithms to interpolate on the control
        Show advantage of STEP-NC compilation and portability
Turning
        Application of lessons learned for milling toolpaths to turning
        What is the NAS 979 equivalent for Turning?
        Show value of STEP-NC for turning
Collision detection for high speed machining
        Build models for all geometries (part, machine, tool-holder, fixtures)
        Place geometry in AP-238 model with toolpaths
        Use on machine simulation system to detect collisions
        Show can detect collisions on the CNC.
Probing and conditional programming
        Implement on control with probes
        Connect sensors to STEP-NC variables
        Program probing operations
        Show STEP-NC makes flexible manufacturing easier to program