[step-manufacturing] Minutes of June 12 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
Mikael Tedborg, Sandvik, Sweden
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
Mike Restal, Sandvik, USA
Kevin Warren, Sandvik, USA
Vincent Marchini, Ameritech, USA
Fred Proctor, NIST, USA
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
David Odendahl, Boeing, USA
Robert Erickson, Pratt and Whitney, USA
Thomas Raun, ISCAR, USA
Ian Stroud, EPFL, Switzerland
Alain Brail, Airbus (retired), France
Fiona Zhao, McGill, Canada
Alexandre Fournier, Boost-Conseil, France

We discussed the CAM Tooling pilot. The pilot will prove that a CNC user 
can send a STEP-NC program to a cutting tool vendor for optimization. 
The first tests will be performed on two lab machines and will be 
followed as soon as possible by production testing.

The face to face meeting on June 24 and 25 at CCAM will discuss what 
information is required to enable the cutting tool optimization. This 
will include the programming data in the STEP-NC program and any 
necessary performance characteristics of the CNC machine.

http://www.steptools.com/camxc/

The CAM Tooling pilot is the first of three being planned. The second 
pilot will investigate how to adjust the contours of cutting profiles to 
fit the as-measured dimensions of assemblies. The third pilot will seek 
to build a manufacturing simulation network by extending the STEP 
infrastructure to be more modular and inclusive of other data formats.

http://www.steptools.com/library/standard/

The next conference call will be held at a date to be determined at the 
face to face meeting. A recording of this conference call can be found 
at the following location:

ftp://www.steptools.com/private/CAM_exchange/Cycle_1/stepmanuf_telecon_20130612.wmv

Action Items
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1. David Odendahl to prepare a STEP-NC file for the first round of testing
2. Martin Hardwick to arrange a Goto meeting for those who cannot be at 
the face to face meeting