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Minutes of Conference Call on Thursday April 26 at 1PM France, 8PM Japan
and 7AM Eastern USA<br>
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1. Venue and Logistics<br>
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The demonstrations will be given in Ibusuki on Thursday July 5th starting
at 10:30 and finishing at either 1500 or 1700. If there is a joint
meeting with SC1 then it will be held on Wednesday. There will not be any
demonstrations in Tokyo.<br><br>
The demonstrations will be given as part of an Open Seminar. This will be
one of three Open Seminars being held on successive days during the
Japanese meeting. There will be no charge for attendees at the seminars.
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Professor Kisinami will be asked to give the keynote speech at the
seminar. The title of the seminar will be "Planning, Machining and
Measurement using STEP and STEP-NC". We need to develop a short
description for distribution to interested parties. There will be three
demonstrations at our seminar. <br><br>
1. Demonstration by Fanuc of ISO 14649 machining<br>
2. 2.5D axis mold and die machining<br>
3. 5 axis fish head machining and on-machine measurement<br><br>
The Fanuc demonstration is not yet confirmed. The Fish head machining and
measurement demonstration will be given by video. We need to develop a
detailed schedule so that we can determine whether or not the meeting
should end at 15:00 or 17:00.<br><br>
Participants are encouraged to prepare white papers describing their
software for distribution at the seminar.<br><br>
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2. Mold and Die Demonstration<br>
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Development of the AP-224 and AP-240 files for the mold and die parts is
on schedule. AP-224 files will be placed onto the ftp site before the
next conference call.<br><br>
SCRA will need a fixed IP address for its demonstration.<br><br>
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3. Airbus Fish Head Demonstration<br>
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The airbus fish head will be machined and measured at three sites before
the meeting and video tapes will be shown during the meeting. The two
confirmed sites are Sandvik and NIST. Sandvik will use Sandvik cutting
tools and NIST will use Kennametal tools. Airbus is searching for a third
site near Toulouse. NIST will machine the part before the next conference
call to confirm the accuracy of the tool paths, feeds and speeds. Sandvik
will machine the part on a Hermle C40u machine with a
<font size=2>Heidenhain iTNC530 controller</font>. This will be the first
demonstration of 5-axis STEP-NC machining using a Heidenhain control.
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Action Items<br>
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Martin Hardwick to prepare and circulate a short description of the
seminar<br>
Fred Proctor to develop a schedule for the seminar<br>
Len Slovensky and Chiaki Sakamoto to deliver AP-224 files for the model
and die part to Martin Hardwick for placement on the ftp site<br>
Chiaki Sakamoto to confirm participation in the demonstration by
Fanuc<br>
Alain Brail to confirm participation by a French site in the fish head
demonstration<br>
NIST to machine the fish head to confirm validity of the tool paths,
speeds and feeds<br>
STEP Tools and Sandvik to develop a STEP-NC converter for the
<font size=2>Heidenhain iTNC530 controller</font> <br><br>
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The next conference call will be hosted by Airbus on Thursday May 10th at
8PM Japan, 1PM France, 7AM Eastern USA, 4AM Western USA<br>
Minutes prepared by Martin Hardwick <br><br>
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