[step-manufacturing] Minutes of Renton Call #1

[Martin Hardwick]

_Attendees_
Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
David Loffredo, STEP Tools, USA
Fred Proctor, NIST, USA
Fiona Zhao, NIST,/New Zealand
David Odendahl, Boeing, USA
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
Vincent Marchini, Ameritech, USA
Mikael Hedlind, KTH, Sweden
Alain Brail, AlBavis,  France

The next demonstration and meeting will be at the Boing Renton (737) 
plant on October 12 and 13 with a preparation day on October 11.

The goal of the demonstration is to begin testing closed loop machining 
using STEP-NC. We will machine Boxy again and we will use an on-machine 
probe and a FARO arm to measure the part and close the loop for some 
setup and inspection operations. There was considerable discussion on 
what should be attempted for the first demonstration. If the 
demonstration is too ambitious then the software will not be ready in 
three months. If the demonstration is too small scale then the audience 
may question why STEP-NC is necessary. We decided that Fred Proctor 
should develop a scenario for distribution to the group (done).

Martin Hardwick and Fiona Zhao are working on an information model for 
closed loop machining. There have been several iterations but we seem to 
be converging on a basic structure for the model.
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/Renton/Closed_loop_model.txt

There are many attributes that remain to be filled in. Finding out what 
these are is one of the goals for the demonstration.

We agreed that because the time for this demonstration is short we will 
need a good schedule. Martin Hardwick will develop a first cut list of 
the items that need to be completed for the demonstration to be successful.

Martin Hardwick
Team Leader STEP-Manufacturing

Action Items
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Fred Proctor to develop scenario
All to review the scenario and give feedback
Martin Hardwick to develop a list of action items
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