<html><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/12/new-report-urges-multiagency-action-to-support-potentially-transformative-digital-twins-research"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/12/new-report-urges-multiagency-action-to-support-potentially-transformative-digital-twins-research" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/12/new-report-urges-multiagency-action-to-support-potentially-transformative-digital-twins-research" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">New Report Urges Multiagency Action to Support Potentially Transformative Digital Twins Research</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/12/new-report-urges-multiagency-action-to-support-potentially-transformative-digital-twins-research" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">nationalacademies.org</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 9, 2024, at 9:44 AM, Martin Hardwick <hardwick@steptools.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>All,<br><br>Here is the slide set that I used to guide this weeks conference call.<br><br>I appreciate all the feedback and wonder if we can extend the birth marks idea into a framework for measuring the conformance of a digital twin to a set of manufacturing requirements.<br><br>If we know a digital twin has been properly birthed, then may be we can also determine if it has been a good citizen during its life time, gaining necessary qualifications, and meeting its expectations and obligations.<br><br>Martin<br><br>-- <br>Martin Hardwick<br>President STEP Tools, Inc.<br>Cell: 518 253-0596<br>"The sticky tape wizards"<br>"There are billions of STEP files and millions of STEP-NC files"<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>