[step-manufacturing] Minutes for conference call on Thursday April 26

[Martin Hardwick]

Minutes of Conference Call on Thursday April 26 at 1PM France, 8PM 
Japan and 7AM Eastern USA
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1. Venue and Logistics
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The demonstrations will be given in Ibusuki on Thursday July 5th 
starting at 10:30 and finishing at either 1500 or 1700. If there is a 
joint meeting with SC1 then it will be held on Wednesday. There will 
not be any demonstrations in Tokyo.

The demonstrations will be given as part of an Open Seminar. This 
will be one of three Open Seminars being held on successive days 
during the Japanese meeting. There will be no charge for attendees at 
the seminars.

Professor Kisinami will be asked to give the keynote speech at the 
seminar. The title of the seminar will be "Planning, Machining and 
Measurement using STEP and STEP-NC". We need to develop a short 
description for distribution to interested parties. There will be 
three demonstrations at our seminar.

1. Demonstration by Fanuc of ISO 14649 machining
2. 2.5D axis mold and die machining
3. 5 axis fish head machining and on-machine measurement

The Fanuc demonstration is not yet confirmed. The Fish head machining 
and measurement demonstration will be given by video. We need to 
develop a detailed schedule so that we can determine whether or not 
the meeting should end at 15:00 or 17:00.

Participants are encouraged to prepare white papers describing their 
software for distribution at the seminar.


2. Mold and Die Demonstration
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Development of the AP-224 and AP-240 files for the mold and die parts 
is on schedule. AP-224 files will be placed onto the ftp site before 
the next conference call.

SCRA will need a fixed IP address for its demonstration.


3. Airbus Fish Head Demonstration
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The airbus fish head will be machined and measured at three sites 
before the meeting and video tapes will be shown during the meeting. 
The two confirmed sites are Sandvik and NIST. Sandvik will use 
Sandvik cutting tools and NIST will use Kennametal tools. Airbus is 
searching for a third site near Toulouse. NIST will machine the part 
before the next conference call to confirm the accuracy of the tool 
paths, feeds and speeds. Sandvik will machine the part on a Hermle 
C40u machine with a Heidenhain iTNC530 controller. This will be the 
first demonstration of 5-axis STEP-NC machining using a Heidenhain control.


Action Items
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Martin Hardwick to prepare and circulate a short description of the seminar
Fred Proctor to develop a schedule for the seminar
Len Slovensky and Chiaki Sakamoto to deliver AP-224 files for the 
model and die part to Martin Hardwick for placement on the ftp site
Chiaki Sakamoto to confirm participation in the demonstration by Fanuc
Alain Brail to confirm participation by a French site in the fish 
head demonstration
NIST to machine the fish head to confirm validity of the tool paths, 
speeds and feeds
STEP Tools and Sandvik to develop a STEP-NC converter for the 
Heidenhain iTNC530 controller


The next conference call will be hosted by Airbus on Thursday May 
10th at 8PM Japan, 1PM France, 7AM Eastern USA, 4AM Western USA
Minutes prepared by Martin Hardwick

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