The mission of Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC™, Inc.) is to identify urgently needed standards in the field of digital metrology, and to promote, foster, and encourage the development and interoperability of these standards, along with related and supporting standards that will benefit the industry as a whole. The Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS | ISO 22093:2011) and the Quality Information Framework (QIF | ISO 23952:2020) are two such standards that the consortium has the responsibility to continue development, maintain and support as well as to coordinate and harmonize with other related standards efforts. The DMSC™ is an ANSI Accredited Standards Developing Organization, as well as an A-Liaison to ISO. QIF was harvested by the International Standards Organization and elevated to ISO 23952:2020 in August 2020. The consortium invites participation within the consortium of other standards groups and activities that seek to resolve the technology and other issues of automated (digital) metrology.
DMSC QIF Working Groups
Members of the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) chair multiple working groups responsible for governance and maintenance of the current standard, development of improvements, updates as well as the marketing and education of the community implementing the QIF standard.
Visit our QIF Working Groups page to learn more.
DMSC History
The need for a common communication language in the CAD arena in 1983 ultimately lead to the formation of the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC), formerly known as Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium.
DMSC Executive Director Emeritus Bailey Squier succinctly shares the evolution of the standardization of digital metrology (1983-2008) in this article.
DMSC, Inc. Board of Directors
President: Curtis W. Brown – Honeywell FM&T
Treasurer/Director: Rosemary Astheimer – NIST
Secretary: Ray Stahl – 2BMobile LLC
Director: Daniel Campbell – Capvidia
Director: Jennifer Herron – Action Engineering
Director: Hermitt Vega – Pratt & Whitney | Raytheon Technologies
Director: Jeremy Hamilton – Deere & Company
Director: Sam Gambrell – Lockheed Martin
Executive Director: Mark Thomas – DMSC
