[step-manufacturing] Minutes of October 3rd conference call

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
David Loffredo, STEP Tools, USA
Mikael Hedlind, Scania, Sweden
Magnus Lundgren, KTH, Sweden
Alain Brail, Airbus (retired), France
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
Leon Xu, Boeing, USA
Bob Erickson, Pratt & Whitney, USA
Vincent Marchini, Ameritech, USA
Igal Naveh, ISCAR, Israel

Two Boeing use cases have been added to the benefits spreadsheet. The 
first estimates the financial advantage of having access to a wider 
database during process planning, and the second estimates the advantage 
that would have accrued if STEP-NC had been in place during a crisis in 
the development of the Boeing 787 when a large team of engineers had to 
transfer work instructions from suppliers to Boeing for approval by the FAA.

A third Boeing use case is in development. It will to describe the 
advantage of using STEP-NC for cost estimating.

The next action is to get additional use cases from Volvo, Scania and 
Pratt and Whitney.

ftp://www.steptools.com/private/IMTS/STEP-NC_benefits.pdf

We discussed recent implementation of the ISO 13399 cutting tool 
standard. A prototype has been implemented in which a Sandvik tooling 
catalog was translated to a Siemens Team Center database so that it can 
be used by a wide range of Siemens systems. The translation was 
successful but time was lost when the object model was not immediately 
understood by Siemens. They are now investigating whether to include a 
more explicit description of the model in the next round of translation.

The next telecon will be held on Wednesday October 17th at the regular 
times. A recording of this meeting is at the following ftp site:

ftp://www.steptools.com/private/Interoperability_costs/stepmanuf_telecon_20121003.wmv 


Martin Hardwick
Team Leader STEP-Manufacturing

Action Item
1. KTH to work with Volvo and Scania to get estimates of the advantages 
of deploying STEP-NC at their facilities.
2. STEP Tools and CCAT to get estimates of the advantages of deploying 
STEP-NC at Pratt.