[step-manufacturing] Minutes of September 28 conference call

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
David Loffredo, STEP Tools, USA
Joe Fritz, STEP Tools, USA
Samson Bonfante, STEP Tools, USA
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
Alain Brail, Airbus (retired), France
Pierre Duchier, Airbus, France
Christian Callet, Datakit, France
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
Rich Morihara, Boeing, USA
Leon Xu, Boeing USA
David Odendahl, Boeing USA
Chris Stedman, Boeing, USA
Leon Xu, Boeing, USA
Dan Finke, Penn State University, USA
Caleb Severn, Penn State USA
Ted Driggs, Okuma, USA
Thanh Huyn, Okuma, USA
Larry Maggiano, Mitutoyo, USA

The machining tests held at Renton on Saturday,  to prove out the 
optimized machining for Setup 1, were a success. The next tests will be 
on this Saturday October 1st with the first task being to prove out the 
optimized codes for Setup 2.

If there is time we will also machine the complete part using the latest 
results of the NC Generation Service. The following configuration 
choices will be set.

Deep milling tool does not have thru coolant, can manage 20mm depth of cut
Plunge drill has thru coolant and diameter of 0.72 inch
Cannot program peck drilling yet so plunge drill must be hand operated
Minor enhancements have been made to tolerances so STEP will send new 
version to PSU before new program is generated

The demonstration rehearsal will begin on Tuesday afternoon at the 
Museum of Flight.

The next conference call will be on November 2nd.

Martin Hardwick
Convener WG15 Digital Manufacturing