[step-manufacturing] Minutes of November 6th conference call

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
David Loffredo, STEP Tools, USA
Robert Lipman, NIST, USA
Magnus Lundgren, KTH, Sweden
Yujiang Li, KTH, Sweden
Mikael Hedlind, Scania, Sweden
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
Julie Huang, Sandvik, Sweden
Mike Tedeborg, Sandvik, Sweden
Mike Restall, Sandvik, USA
Kevin Warren, Sandvik, USA
Vincent Marchini, Ameritech, USA
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
David Odendahl, Boeing, USA
Thomas Raun, ISCAR, USA
Doron Cohen, ISCAR, Israel
Yin Lampard Zhang, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Apologies for absence
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Fred Proctor, NIST, USA
Robert Erickson, Pratt & Whitney, USA

We discussed the schedule for the tooling optimization project. Ideally 
we would like to have the first results available in time for the NIST 
Model Based Engineering (MBE) Summit on December 19th. Therefore, the 
following schedule has been proposed

November 20th    Complete optimization of largest pocket as a test case
December 4th       Complete optimization of the whole HardyMoldy part
December 18th     Verify results by machining before and after versions 
of HardyMoldy at Boeing and possibly at KTH

As previously agreed, for each operation the tool vendors may optimize 
by changing the cutting tool, toolpaths and speed and feeds. For this 
round they may not change the entry and exit strategies or do any 
reordering of the operations.

In order to meet the first deadline on November 20th Boeing will deliver 
torque curves for its Okuma machine by Friday November 8th. Boeing will 
also complete before and after workpiece models for the largest pocket 
by the same Friday. The tool vendors will then deliver the optimized 
paths for the pocket by Wednesday November 13th. Finally, STEP Tools 
will integrate the optimized operations into the STEP-NC data ready for 
demonstration in the conference call on Wednesday, November 20th.

The cutting tool vendors will deliver the optimized toolpath data as 
Mastercam X6 and optionally as Siemens NX 9.5 files.

All communications will be sent through Martin Hardwick of STEP Tools to 
ensure that all issues are properly recorded.

In order to expedite the machining, the cutting tool vendors are asked 
to deliver cutting tools list for the optimized HardyMoldy as soon as 
possible so that they can be purchased.

We apologize for failing to make a recording of this conference call but 
have tried to make these minutes in record time as recompense.

Action Items
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1. David Odendahl to make HardyMoldy with before and after models for 
the pocketing.
2. Sid Venkatesh to make torque profile curve for the cutting tool 
spindle on the Okuma machine at Boeing.
3. ISCAR and Sandvik to deliver optimized programs for the largest 
pocket in Mastercam X6 and optionally Siemens NX 9.5.
4. ISCAR and Sandvik to deliver cutting tool lists for the optimized 
HardyMoldy.
5. Magnus Lundgren to investigate machining the before and after 
versions of HardyMoldy at KTH to independently verify the results.