[step-manufacturing] Minutes of sixth conference call

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Alain Brail, Airbus, France
John Horst, NIST
Ray Admire, Lockheed Martin
David Odendahl, Boeing
John Witko, General Dynamics Land Systems
Fred Proctor, NIST
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
James Ayers, Northrop Grumman
Brian Kindlein, CCAT
Matthew Lloyd, CCAT
Xia Li, RPI
Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, Inc.


Apologies for absence
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Shaw Feng, NIST
Xun Xu, New Zealand
Len Slovensky, SCRA
Curtis Brown, Honeywell Kansas City Plant


The following three test data sets are available on the ftp site at: 
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/Dallas/2007103_data/

Dallas_Sandvik.238		-- made from Siemens UGS data
Dallas_NIST.238		-- made for Mastercam data
Dallas_NZ.238			-- made from Pro/Engineer data

The Sandvik data set is complete except for some small issues with 
the inspection processing (see below) and any other issues that may 
be discovered during the simulation testing. The NIST data set only 
contains 3-axis tool paths and is in inch units. The New Zealand data 
needs to be checked for possible translation issues because it is the 
first to use the Pro/Engineer APT translator.

We reviewed the data and agreed that the unit for all of the data 
sets should be millimeters. We also agreed that the hole should be 
drilled to a depth of at least 5 millimeters below the bottom of the 
part to allow space for proper measurement with the probe. Lastly we 
agreed that the distances of the linear distance measurements should 
be checked because they looked like they were given as inch values 
instead of millimeters. A new set of slides has been posted to the 
web site: FishHeadToleranceSuggestionsIssueC.ppt and the data in the 
three AP-238 files has been adjusted to match these tolerances.

We agreed that a live machining demonstration is not going to be 
possible at this meeting. Therefore, each participant will bring a 
copy of the part to the meeting, make a video of the part being 
machined and bring the inspection results so that they compared with 
the results obtained by the other participants.

We reviewed and agreed to the schedule for the Dallas meeting. Fred 
Proctor will send out a white paper on Adaptive control in order to 
facilitate the discussion on feed and speed optimization. The HiPP 
team will be responsible for the presentations on the inspection 
feature and process model extensions. There was agreement that the 
traceability model should be reviewed for inclusion in the second 
edition of AP-238 but there should be industrial testing of the model 
before the second edition is completed.


Schedule
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November 1st 		- Machining demonstration
October 24th 		- Finish machining tests
October 10th 		- Begin machining tests
October 1st 		- Finish tool path development
September 15th 	- Begin tool path development


New Action Items
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Fred Proctor to circulate paper on adaptive control
All increase the hole depth by 5mm to allow space for measurement


Old Action items
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David Loffredo and David Odendahl to investigate use of rotate 
command for two dimensional probing
Fred Proctor to complete the welcome package and scenario documentation


Closed Action Items
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Martin Hardwick to send AP-203 file for the fish head to Len Slovensky
Len Slovensky to prepare a draft AIC for the inspection features
David Odendahl to contact Chen Han Lee of UGS and John Horst to 
contact John  Schafer of UGS about participating in the demonstration
Fred Proctor to investigate use of Pro/Manufacturing for developing 
fish head tool paths
Martin Hardwick to contact Prof. Kisinami about Far East 
participation in the demonstration
Alain Brail to contact Renishaw about using their macros for two 
dimensional (X and Y) probing
Martin Hardwick to send Catai data for the Ibusuki demonstration to Shaw Feng
Len Slovensky to investigate developing an AP-224 file with the 
tolerances for the fish head part as a substitute AP-203 e2 file
Fred Proctor to prepare a welcome package for new organizations that 
want to join the demonstration
Fred Proctor to develop a scenario for the demonstration showing data 
flows and responsibilities
John Horst to assist Ray Admire in contacting the Mori-Seiki tech center
Bengt Olsson to investigate requirements for optimal tool selection
Chen-Han Lee to assist Bengt Olsson in converting the Sandvik rough 
model to AP-203
Shaw Feng and HiPP team to review the inspection features suggested by Airbus
Curtis Brown to develop a recipe for making the new measurements on the part
John  Horst to contact Len Slovensky about developing an AP-203 e2 
model with the tolerances required by the new measurements
Martin Hardwick to develop an AP-238 model with the new tolerances 
and measurements
David Odendahl and Ray Admire to contact Vought about hosting the demonstration
Alain Brail and John Horst to contact Renishaw about participating in 
the demonstration


The next conference call will be held on Wednesday October 17th at 
the same time 4:30PM France, 10:30 AM Eastern USA, 9:30AM Central 
USA, 7:30AM Western USA.
As recorded by Martin Hardwick