[step-manufacturing] Minutes of January 11 meeting

[Martin Hardwick]

Attendees
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Martin Hardwick, STEP Tools, USA
David Loffredo, STEP Tools, USA
Bengt Olsson, Sandvik, Sweden
Mikael Hedlind, Scania, Sweden
Christian Callet, Datakit, France
Nicholas Figay, Airbus, France
Alain Brail, Airbus (retired), France
John Bijnens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Sid Venkatesh, Boeing, USA
David Odendahl, Boeing, USA
Dan Finke, PSU, USA
Bob Ericksson, P&W, USA
Thanh Huynh, Okuma, USA
Bob Brown, Mitutotyo, USA
Larry Maggiano, Mitutoyo, USA
Tom Raun, Iscar, USA
Asa Trainer, ITI, USA
Will Sobel, System Insights, USA
Vincent Marchetti, Ameritech, USA
Ashraf Suri, General Electric, USA

We discussed the digital thread demonstration to be given over the web 
on March 1st.

Our digital thread consists of three standards: STEP, MTConnect and QIF.

The demonstration will feature on-machine measurement using a touch 
probe. STEP will define what is going to be measured, MTConnect will be 
used to report the touch probing results, and QIF will be used to report 
how well the design tolerances have been met.

We will communicate the probing results from the CNC to the CMM by 
testing an extension to MTConnect in which measurement results are 
communicated by sending a UUID of the feature being measured with a set 
of measurement points on that feature.

A recording of this call is in the archive at the following URL : 
ftp://downloads.steptools.com/private/JWG15/Cycle8/WG15_STEP_Manufacturing_20170111.mp4

The next conference call will be held at the regular times on Wednesday 
January 25th.

Martin Hardwick
Convener WG15 Digital Manufacturing