[step-manufacturing] Minutes of first conference call for Boeing/Vancouver demonstration

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Matthew Lloyd, CCAT
Brian Kindilein, CCAT
Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, Inc.
Larry Maggiano, Mitutoyo
Mikael Hedlind, KTH
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik
Leon Xu, Boeing
Fred Proctor, NIST
Alain Brail, AlBavis
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing
Bob Erickson, Pratt & Whitney

Apologies for absence
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David Odendahl, Boeing
Xun Xu, University of Auckland
Gary Hargreaves, Mastercam

The next demonstration will be held at Boeing facilities near the 
Seattle airport from May 13-15. These dates have been chosen to 
coincide with the SC4 meeting from May 10-15 so that those who wish 
can attend the first two days of the SC4 meeting on Vancouver island 
and then continue to the T24 demonstration in Seattle.

The theme of the demonstration will be CAM/CNC interoperability 
across enterprises. A test part (or parts) will be selected from a 
list to be presented by Pratt and Whitney, Mastercam, Mitutoyo and 
Sandvik. The part will be a mold and the machining will be divided 
into five operations so that each of the cutting teams (Boeing, CCAT, 
KTH, NIST and Sandvik) can machine at least one of the operations 
developed by each of the other cutting teams. A matrix showing the 
concept is on the ftp site at:

ftp://ftp.steptools.com/private/Vancouver/Matrix_machining.pdf

The technical goal for the demonstration will be to discover ways to 
make data exchange of machining processes between enterprises more 
efficient. In order to reach these goals it will be necessary for 
each of the sites to be able to simulate the machining of the other 
sites, to fine-tune the feeds and speeds of the other sites, and to 
change the axial and radial depths of the tool paths geometries made 
by the other sites.

A document describing the scenario and technical goals for the 
demonstration will be made by Fred Proctor.

This technical document will be reviewed during the next conference 
call. Other goals for the next conference call include selecting the 
test part and selecting the model to be used for the machine tool 
simulation. The two candidate machine tool models are the models 
developed by the University of Bath and the ASME.

Other sites will be invited to join the demonstration when the 
initial teams have finished developing the test data.

The next conference call will be on Wednesday October 29.

Action items
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Fred Proctor to develop document describing the scenario.
Gary Hargreaves, Bob Erickson, Larry Maggiano and Bengt Ollson to 
find potential test parts.
Martin Hardwick to develop machine tool simulator using either the 
U.Bath or ASME model.