[step-manufacturing] Minutes and press release

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Matthew Lloyd, CCAT
Brian Kindilein, CCAT
Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, Inc.
Larry Maggiano, Mitutoyo
Xun Xu, NIST guest researcher
Mikael Hedlind, KTH
Mike O'Brien, Boeing
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing


Apologies for absence
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David Odendahl, Boeing
Leon Xu, Boeing
Alain Brail, AlBavis
Fred Proctor, NIST
Peter Klein, Concepts Nrec


A new press release for the meeting is attached to these minutes. 
Please send them to your press contacts.

The titanium blanks are ready. Sandvik will send one to Boeing and 
the other to CCAT. The following address can be used for all material 
being sent to CCAT.

ATTN: Brian Kindilien
Connecticut Center for Advanced Technologies, Inc.
222 Pitkin Street
Suite 106
East Hartford, Connecticut USA 06108
Ph: +1.860.282.4214

The cutting tools should be ready by the end of labor day weekend and 
will also be sent to Boeing and CCAT.

A new version of the AP-238 Technical Corrigendum has been put onto 
the ftp site. This version enhances the STEP-NC model for AS-IS, 
TO-BE geometries so that they can contain dimensions and tolerances.

ftp://ftp.steptools.com/private/CCAT/stepnc_tc1_20080826.pdf

The requirements for curve probing were discussed and the new 
strawman model is as follows:

ENTITY curve_probing SUBTYPE OF (touch_probing)
	start_position				: OPTIONAL axis2_placement_3d;
	start_direction				: OPTIONAL direction;
	distance				: OPTIONAL length_measure;
	curve_to_be_measured			: bounded_curve;
	curve_axis				: OPTIONAL bounded_curve
	as_measured_curve			: OPTIONAL bounded_curve;
	as_measured_curve_normal		: OPTIONAL bounded_curve;
	its_technology				: OPTIONAL technology
	path_maximum_deviation		: OPTIONAL bounded_curve;
END_ENTITY;

A video showing data preparation for the final inspection of the 
impeller followed by the inspection using a scanning touch probe has 
been prepared by Mitutoyo and is on the ftp site at: 
ftp://ftp.steptools.com/private/CCAT/STEP-NC_Measurement_Path.avi. 
The video shows the type of device that is now available for scanning 
curves on machined parts. This is the type of device that will be 
controlled using the new curve probing entity.

The next conference call will be on Wednesday September 3 ONE WEEK 
EARLIER than usual because IMTS is in the following week.

Action items
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Sid Venkatesh and Mike O'Brien to test Faro interface
Bengt Olsson to deliver cutting tools and cutting tool data to Boeing.
Sid Venkatesh to contact Rolls Royce
Martin Hardwick to contact GE
Brian Kindilien to contact CCAT supply chain
Sid Venkatesh to send press release to Control Engineering Magazine
Biran Kindilien to send press release to Manufacturing Engineering Magazine
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