Day One Schedule of Events
8:00-8:30
Registration & Check-in
8:30-8:45
Welcome & Session Introduction
Rosemary Astheimer | NIST
8:45-9:00
Welcome to MxD
Berardino Baratta | MxD
9:00 – 9:30
ASME Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) Standards Update
Fred Constantino | ASME
Blake Gorowsky | Pratt & Whitney
Evan Kessick | Elysium
9:30-10:00
ISO STEP AP242 Update
Allison Barnard-Feeney | NIST
Melissa Harvey | Action Engineering
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:00
DMSC Standards Update
Curtis Brown | Honeywell FM&T
11:00-11:30
MTConnect Standards Update
William Sobel | Metalogi
11:30-12:00
Bridging the Gap: Leveraging the NSE MBE Maturity Index to Comply with DoD 5000.97
Robert Steel & Ryan Scott | Belcan
12:00-13:00
Lunch
13:00-14:00
KEYNOTE
Model Based Everything: US Air Force Digital Transformation
Christopher Garrett
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
14:00-14:30
Getting Heart Healthy Using Model-Based Exercises
William Cockrell & Cristina Martinez Villalba
Edwards Lifesciences
14:30-15:00
MBD and QIF Workflow Implementation for Remanufacturing Digital Product Passport
William Kerr | National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
15:00-15:30
Break – Quality Ice Cream Function
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15:30-16:00
Implementation of QIF in the Real World
Sam Gambrell | Lockheed Martin
16:00-16:30
Real End User MBD Workflows: Experiences and Challenges
Hermitt Vega | Pratt & Whitney
Ken Woodbine | Hexagon
16:30-17:00
Bridging Digital Transformation and Metrology for Enhanced Productivity Through Model-Based Characteristics (MBC)
Ercihan Kiraci | WMG, University of Warwick
Toby Maw | Manufacturing Technology Centre
17:00-17:05
Summit Day One Wrap-up
Rosemary Astheimer | NIST
17:05-18:30
Reception
Day Two Schedule of Events
8:00-8:30
Registration & Check-in
8:30-8:35
Day Two Welcome
Rosemary Astheimer | NIST
8:35-9:05
Integrating Simulation Analysis with the Quality Digital Thread
Tyler Stone | Honeywell FM&T
9:05-9:35
Save the Silos and Other Non Sequiturs
Ben Kassel | UMD Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security
9:35-10:05
QIF-Compatible Digital Calibration Certificates
Jacob Brooks | University of North Carolina at Charlotte
10:05 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 11:00
Applying UUIDs: What is Considered a Feature?
Jan de Nijs | Lockheed Martin – Aeronautics
11:00-11:30
Geometric Modeling Across Domains in the Digital Thread:
STEP, QIF, MTConnect, and Beyond
Ben Urick | nVariate
11:30-12:00
A Minimum Viable Product for Persistent IDs in Product Development
Asa Trainer | Trainer Engineering Associates
12:00-13:00
Lunch
13:00-13:30
Feature Recognition for Streaming UUIDs
William Sobel | Metalogi
13:30 – 14:00
Leveraging Standards Development Organizations for Value in Model-Based Implementations
Dan Feighery & Melissa Harvey
Action Engineering
14:00-14:30
Advanced MBE Methods that Inform Bidirectional Communication Between Manufacturing and Quality Disciplines
Tom Groff | Kotem
14:30-15:00
Break
Sponsored by
15:00-15:30
MBE as an Information Paradigm:
Achieving Lasting Value with MBD and MBE
Bryan Fischer | Advantage MBE
15:30 – 16:00
Implementation of Model-Based Characteristics Within the Product Development Process
Blake Gorowsky | Pratt & Whitney
16:00-16:30
Japanese Automotive Industry: Data Interoperability in Digital Engineering
Atsuto Soma | JAMA/JAPIA (Elysium)
16:30 -16:35
Summit Day Two Wrap-up
Rosemary Astheimer | NIST
16:35-18:30
Reception & Factory Floor Tour
Day Three Schedule of Events
8:00-8:30
Registration & Check-in
8:30-8:35
Day Three Welcome
Rosemary Astheimer | NIST
8:35-9:05
Digital Thread: Characteristics
George Rendell | Siemens
9:05-9:35
Product Characteristics (PC) Tagged Exemplar MBE Models for Public Dissemination
Ryan Cox | Honeywell FM&T
9:35-10:05
The Future of Standards-Based Interoperability
Michael Figura | OAGi
10:05-10:30
Break
10:30-11:00
Enhancing MBD for Manufacturing and Inspection in Small-Medium Enterprises
Christian Zamiela | Auburn University
11:00-11:30
3D MBD Breakthrough: Unleashing OEM Supply Chain Collaboration (The Practical Way!)
Sam Golan | High QA
11:30-12:00
Streamlining MTConnect Implementation with the MTConnect Transpiler
Trais McAllister | True Analytics Manufacturing Solutions
12:00-13:00
Lunch
13:00-13:30
Developing Contractual Language for Model-Based Standards
Ryan Bounds | Newport News Shipbuilding
Duane Hess | Action Engineering
13:30-14:00
A Next-Generation Model-Based Enterprise Maturity Index
Curtis Brown | Honeywell FM&T
14:00-14:30
Enterprise Model-Based System Integration and Digital Thread Implementation
Samuel Yang | RTX Technology Research Center
Michael Gwara | Pratt & Whitney
14:30 – 15:00
Break
15:00 – 15:30
How to Write a Digital-Ready Standard
Leslie McKay | SAE International
15:30-16:30
Panel Discussion : Are STEP & QIF on a Trajectory to Redundancy?
Design, manufacture, and inspection processes share the need for a conflation of 3D Model-Based Definition and attributes related to both process and product. Each of these processes may have unique 3D MBD requirements but there is a great deal of commonality. As the digitalization of these processes have expanded and matured, interest in the 3D MBD and obtaining an import capability has proliferated. In order to facilitate this capability various standards based neutral files have materialized. This panel will discuss the continuing evolution of STEP and QIF, is scope creep resulting in overlap and duplication, can they be harmonized, or are they on a trajectory to redundancy where market forces rule their destiny.
Moderator: Ben Kassel | UMD ARLIS
Panelists: Sam Gambrell | Lockheed Martin
Melissa Harvey | Action Engineering
16:30
Summit Wrap-up
Rosemary Astheimer | NIST
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