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All,<br><br>
As you probably know the theme of the upcoming STEP meeting in Toulouse
is "STEP and Manufacturing". There is going to be a significant
demonstration of CNC data preparation using AP-224, and CNC machining
using AP-238 on the morning of Wednesday June 28, followed by
presentations and discussions on future directions for our STEP
Manufacturing activities in the afternoon. I believe it is going to be a
very good meeting with a several newcomers able to join us for the first
time. <br><br>
We should make a special effort to make the newcomers feel welcome by
spending more time than usual explaining what we do during the summary
and status session on Monday afternoon. If you can please spend extra
time preparing your summary presentations. For each AP I think it would
be good to show:<br><br>
1. Where the AP fits into the STEP-Manufacturing Suite<br>
2. Explain the current status of the AP in layman's terms as well as its
official ISO status (NWI, CD etc).<br>
3. Show the Scope of the AP and describe what problems it is trying to
solve.<br>
4. If there has been any testing then describe what has been done so
far<br>
5. Give an overview of the technology involved by briefly describing the
most important application objects.<br><br>
With suitable modifications I hope this can also apply to the ISO 14649
and ISO 13399 parts. <br><br>
Ideally it would be nice to spend 10 minutes on each AP or other part for
the newcomers, 5 minutes on the goals for this meeting, and then 5
minutes for questions and answers.<br><br>
In addition because of the interest, the Wg3 Convenor has asked me to
give an overview of the current status of our AP's at the Wg3 plenary
session on Monday Morning (10:30 to Noon). I will prepare this material,
but it would be most helpful if you could send me a summary slide for
each of your AP's describing the following information:<br><br>
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</x-tab>scope, who
participated or is participating, current status, industrial validation
or use, work in progress, future plans<br><br>
Thanks very much. I look forward to seeing you in Toulouse.<br><br>
Martin Hardwick<br>
Team Leader Wg3 T24 STEP-Manufacturing <br>
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