[step-manufacturing] Minutes of November 16th conference call

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
David Loffredo, STEP Tools, USA
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
Oliver Rigollet, Datakit, France
Pierre Duchier, Airbus, France
Alain Brail, Airbus (retired) USA
John Bijnens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
David Odendahl, Boeing, USA
Dan Finke, PSU, USA
Bob Ericksson, P&W, USA
Ted Driggs, Okuma, USA
Larry Maggiano, Miututoyo, USA

We discussed how to integrate machining and measurement using STEP, 
MTConnect and QIF. In October we related products and tolerances in 
STEP, to parts and characteristics in QIF, using UUID anchor's in the 
STEP data, and QPID's in the QIF data.

In February we would like to prototype the addition of similar UUID's 
and QPID's to MTConnect so that a measurement on the CNC can be related 
to an operation in the machining program and a characteristic in the 
measurement program.

We discussed how to make the measurements. For February we will use 
traditional touch probing, and if successful follow this up with 
measurement using a laser scanner in July.

Touch probing has the advantage of allowing us to program the operation 
in STEP-NC. If this operation is translated into a Renishaw macro, then 
the probe results can be reported as a value associated to a UUID for 
the machining, and a QPID for the measurement.

A video and presentation material have been added to the archive 
describing the Swedish STEP-NC tweeting demonstration. The presentation 
on integrating AP242 and ISO 13399 has also been added. The integration 
allows the tooling parameters in an ISO 13399 file to be shown as 
dimensions on an AP242 model. We agreed to use this new tooling in the 
February demonstration.

A recording of this call is in the archive at the following URL : 
ftp://downloads.steptools.com/private/JWG15/Cycle8/WG15_STEP_Manufacturing_20161116.mp4

The next conference call will be held at the regular times on Wednesday 
November 30th.

Martin Hardwick
Convener WG15 Digital Manufacturing

Action Items
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1. STEP Tools to generate a QIF measurement plan from STEP.
2. Larry Maggiano to arrange a conference call with Renishaw.
2. Will Sobel to contact Okuma to discuss strategies for prototyping the 
inclusion of probing results into MTConnect.