[step-manufacturing] Minutes of November 18 Conference Call

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
David Loffredo, STEP Tools, USA
Vincent Marchini, Ameritech, USA
Mikael Hedlind, KTH, Sweden
Andreas Archenti, KTH, Sweden
Fred Proctor, NIST, USA
John Horst, NIST, USA

Apologies for absence
Aydin Nassehi, University of Bath, UK
David Odendahl, Boeing, USA
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
Robert Erickson, Pratt and Whitney, USA

A project had been funded by the EU to develop/complete the STEP-NC 
model for wire discharge machines. The University of Bath and TU Aachen 
are both participating. The project is being lead by a Hungarian 
research center.

http://www.stepman.eu

The next SC4 meeting will be held from June 10 to 15 in Stockholm, 
Sweden . STEP Manufacturing has been invited to participate in an 
industry day to be held on Wednesday June 13, and in a 
STEP-Manufacturing demonstration day to be given on Thursday June 14 at KTH.

ftp://ftp.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/TC184_SC4_Stockholm_Juni_2012_(T24_presentation_2011-11-18).pdf

The timing seems good for several of our projects including the CAM data 
exchange project, the machine tool kinematics project and the web 
interfaces project.

For the CAM data exchange project we have an Esprit CAM file for an Army 
part and Fred Proctor will work with the Army to get a Mastercam version 
made.

For the kinematics data exchange, KTH has made an AP-242 file describing 
the kinematics of a DMG 50 and STEP Tools is working to extend its 
infrastructure so that it can read this data  instead of the home-grown 
XML file that is currently being processed.

For the web interfaces project we briefly discussed the presentation XML 
file produced by STEP Tools for Boxy. A similar file has since been made 
by Vincent Marchini of Ameritech.

http://spri.kshell.com/view/stepnc/workplans/con/dm03122010a
ftp://ftp.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/Boxy_Operations.xml

These files are an easy way to access the different facets of our 
manufacturing data sets from WebGL (HTML5) applications.

The next conference call will be held at the regular times on December 
2nd. My apologies  because I forgot to make the GoTo meeting recording.

Martin Hardwick
Team Leader STEP-Manufacturing