[step-manufacturing] Fwd: Article published in AEM on STEP-NC

[Martin Hardwick]

Ian,

For an article like this the reader wants to know that STEP is for CAD 
to CAM data exchange and STEP-NC is for CAM to CNC. They do not want or 
need to know the details of how the standards are organized. What they 
want to know is how the standards deliver benefits to them and that is 
what we tried to do in the article.

As for the Beijing agreement it is a restatement of the STEP 
architecture. The ARM describes the requirements and the AIM describes 
the implementation. We have honored this agreement since the beginning 
and continue to do so with the new machine tool model (see the slides 
that will be published in our next minutes).

Martin Hardwick
Team leader STEP-Manufacturing
President STEP Tools, Inc.
Professor and Acting Head of Computer Science, RPI



On 4/1/2010 1:13 PM, Stroud Ian Anthony wrote:
> Martin,
> Thank you for the article.  Just one or two points of detail. First of all, as agreed in Beijing, the standard for CNC is not AP238 but ISO 14649, AP238 is for communication.  Second, the 'joke' title comes close to what Siemens meant when they started talking about STEP in machine tool control terms prior to the STEP standard, if I remember correctly from Peter Mueller.  Since Siemens registered the term STEP they may not be too happy if it is banded about loosely like this, but Gernot Rossi would need to answer that.
> Best regards and Happy Easter,
>
> Ian
>
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> ________________________________________
> From: step-manufacturing-bounces at steptools.com [step-manufacturing-bounces at steptools.com] On Behalf Of Martin Hardwick [hardwick at steptools.com]
> Sent: 01 April 2010 14:44
> To: step-manufacturing at steptools.com
> Subject: [step-manufacturing] Fwd: Article published in AEM on STEP-NC
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> All,
>
> Here is a new article on STEP-NC. Many thanks to Bruce and all those who made contributions.
>
> Martin
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Article published in AEM on STEP-NC
> Date:   Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:51:16 -0400
> From:   Bruce Morey<brucemorey at comcast.net><mailto:brucemorey at comcast.net>
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> Please find attached a copy of the article you helped me with. Also, electronic versions of the whole magazine are available at:
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> http://www.sae.org/mags/aem/backissues.htm
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> Thanks for your help.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bruce Morey
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