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All,<br>
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The next STEP-Manufacturing meeting will be at the regular times on
Wednesday (see coordinates below). The agenda is as follows:<br>
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1. Brief update on software development for STRL (STEP Resource
Locator) support<br>
2. Discussion on "energy" demonstration for NIST meeting<br>
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Scenarios for estimating the energy needed to run a STEP-NC program
on a machine<br>
Methods to be used for making the estimates (CC1, CC2?)<br>
Test parts - Moldy, Boxy, Fishy, other?<br>
Machine configurations to be tested - DMG, Northwood, Okuma, other?<br>
STEP-NC Data availability - volume removal cross section - Moldy,
Boxy, (already available for Fishy).<br>
STEP-NC Data availability - other?<br>
Necessary cutting tool data for energy estimates<br>
Necessary machine tool data for energy estimates<br>
Gathering and presenting the data over the web.<br>
Verifying the estimates with experiments<br>
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3. Status update on distribute process planning demonstration<br>
4. Status update on tool management demonstration<br>
5. Other<br>
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Wednesday December 2 at 4:30PM France, 10:30AM Eastern and 7:30AM
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