[step-manufacturing] Tasks that must be completed before systems testing can begin for the Renton demonstration

Martin Hardwick hardwick at steptools.com
Mon Aug 9 15:06:19 EDT 2010


Phase 1 Tasks
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These are the tasks to be performed before we begin systems testing

1. Testing tasks that can be performed in the Boeing lab
Test AP-203 interface of FARO arm for one model
Test AP-203 interface for mulitple models (one for each setup)
Load ST-Machine software onto FARO arm PC
Export Faro arm measurement for an origin and axes to a file
Use FARO arm measurement data to adjust a setup
Verify result by generating better G codes


2. Software developement tasks for STEP Tools
Complete version 1.0 of the closed loop machining information model
Debug ST-Machine probing code for Boxy
Add closed loop machining model to AP-238 and ST-Machine
Create ST-Machine operations to show FARO arm operator what to measure 
(which model, which faces, which order)
Create ST-Machine operation to get axis measurement from the file 
written by the FARO arm
Create ST-Machine operation to close the loop and modify the setup placement


3. AP-238 data editing tasks that can be done by any interested party
Create a better AP-203 model for the Probe (right length with a ball at 
the end of the probe)
Adjust the feeds and speeds for Boxy for Aluminium
Check and if necessary fix the geometry of Setup 7
Add probing operations to Boxy data set
Add measurement operations to Boxy data set
Add closed loop setup adjustment operations to Boxy data set


4. Optional additions if there is time and motivation
Change Boxy to be more ambitious (see message from Alain)
Add upper and lower bounds for tool requirement attributes to Boxy
Fix fixtures (add mating points, remove duplicates from Boxy data set)


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