[step-manufacturing] Minutes of January 9th Conference Call

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
Mikael Hedlind, Scania, Sweden
Magnus Lundgren, KTH, Sweden
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
Tom Scotton, CCAT, USA
Bob Erickson, Pratt & Whitney, USA
Vincent Marchini, Ameritech, USA
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
Leon Xu, Boeing, USA
David Odendahl, Boeing USA
Alain Brail, Airbus (retired), France
David Madeley, Siemens NX, UK

Apologies for Absence
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Fred Proctor, NIST, USA
Bill Craig, Dassault Systemes, USA

The CAM vendors need help making the business case for implementing 
their translators. They need to know more about what is required to 
implement a translator and what the value will be to the customer. We 
developed the following three point action plan to help them get started.

1. Make a copy of Boxy in your CAM system so that you can understand 
what data needs to be written into STEP-NC.
http://www.steptools.com/products/stepncmachine/samples/boxy/

2. Make an estimated for the cost of implementing a STEP-NC export using 
the materials previously developed to guide the first phase of 
implementation.
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/Cycle_1/old_materials/Walthrough_AP-238_CC1.ppt 


3. Review the business case that we developed for the IMTS show.
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/IMTS/STEP-NC_benefits.pdf

We discussed the schedule and the demonstration scenario. We propose to 
use the new CAM translators to implement cutting tool solutions by 
having users model an operation in their CAM systems. The data will then 
be saved as a STEP-NC file that will be sent to the cutting tool 
vendors. The cutting tool vendors will recommend a solution using their 
cutting tool(s) and return it as a STEP-NC file that can be viewed, 
verified and modified before being included in the new manufacturing 
solution.

We discussed the venue for the first face to face meeting. The new CCAM 
center for advanced manufacturing was recommended because it has both 
Siemens and Sandvik participating as well as machine tool vendors such 
as Hermle and DMG, and significant users such as Rols Royce and Newport 
News.

http://www.ccam-va.com/

The next conference call will take place at the regular times on 
Wednesday January 23rd. A recording of this conference call is available 
at the following ftp site:

ftp://www.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/Cycle_1/stepmanuf_telecon_20130109.wmv 


Martin Hardwick
Team Leader ISO STEP-Manufacturing

1. David Madeley to research the availability of CCAM to host the face 
to face meeting.
2. David Madeley to build a model of Boxy in Siemens NX.
3. David Odendahl and Martin Hardwick to review and update the getting 
started materials in 
ftp://www.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/Cycle_1/old_materials/
4. OMAC to revise, correct and endorse the STEP-NC Business Case at its 
meeting in Orlando, Florida on February 14 (contact David Odendahl or 
Sid Venkatesh if you wish to attend).