At the direction of the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium Board, Director Jennifer Herron of Action Engineering took the lead in conducting a series of meetings to build the DMSC 2020+ Road Map. We recently met with Jennifer to capture a summary of those meetings, the output achieved, and next steps. Recap for us the objective of this initiative. Our charge…
New ISO Standard Offers Integrated Model for Manufacturing Quality Information The Digital Metrology Standards Consortium recently had their ANSI/DMSC QIF 3.0 metrology standard harvested, approved, and published by ISO as the new ISO Standard ISO 23952:2020. DMSC is the developer and maintainer of QIF (Quality Information Framework), and other metrology standards. These standards are intended to help advanced manufacturers reduce…
Rochester, NY, June 17, 2020 The Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) announced its 15th anniversary as a globally recognized standards development organization. The DMSC is officially an ANSI Accredited Standards Developing Organization and an A-Liaison to ISO ISO/TC 184/SC 4. It operates as a nonprofit group comprised of member companies, academia, government agencies, and individuals with a primary mission to…
The recent 3-part QIF webinar series exceeded registration and attendance expectations and produced excellent reviews by many participants. The webinars, each running about 40 minutes, covered QIF basics (QIF 101), QIF schema (QIF 201) and more advanced applications (QIF 301). The webinar series was marketed through a series of email blasts and the DMSC newsletter. Webinar attendance: QIF 101; Understanding…
The April 2020 issue of the DMSC newsletter contained details about the Spring 2020 QIF webinar series. The first event, April 23, 2020 served as a QIF introductory session, with subsequent webinars diving deeper into applications and implementations. Each QIF webinar tutorial was recorded and is available for viewing on our QIF Resources page. A complete PDF roll-up of all…
With the cancellation of the 2020 MBE Summit, DMSC will be offering, over the next few months, a series of 30-minute webinars presenting content originally intended as 2020 Summit tutorials. These webinars may be summarized as: QIF 101 - First, one must understand the basics of the ANSI/DMSC Quality Information Framework (QIF) interoperability standard with QIF 101: Understanding QIF Basics. …
DMSC will be making multiple QIF presentations during the upcoming MBE (Model-Based Enterprise) Summit at the NIST Campus in Gaithersburg, MD, March 30-April 3. The theme of the MBE Summit 2020 is Increasing MBE Adoption and Implementation. There is no doubt that MBE requires a complex organizational work design that recognizes the interaction between people, skills, and technology in workplaces. The 11th…
Jennifer Herron, CEO of Action Engineering and member of the DMSC Board of Directors, selected as Keynote Speaker at the Metromeet International Conference on Industrial Dimensional Metrology event in Bilboa, Spain, March 3-5, 2020. Ms. Herron has written multiple books and papers specializing in moving technology companies into a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) using Model-Based Definition (MBD). The Metromeet Conference theme…
The DMSC (Digital Metrology Standards Consortium) is pleased to announce the election of new Board of Director members, Daniel Campbell and Rosemary Astheimer. Mr. Campbell is Director of Business Development of Capvidia NV. He is just completing a two-year term as a member of the DMSC Board, and has been re-elected for another term. Daniel brings a strong background in…
The 2019 QIF Summit was held in conjunction with the 3D Collaboration and Interchangeability Congress (3D CIC) event in Golden, CO. The 3D CIC fosters concentrated conversations about CAD-agnostic digital methods for Model-Based Enterprise advancement. As an active promoter of QIF standards, DMSC teamed with Action Engineering to sponsor the joint program, focused on CAD collaboration and data interoperability for…
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