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QIF 4.0 Working Group Seeks Vice-Chair

The QIF 4.0 Working Group is looking for someone to help manage the regular meetings (1 hour, roughly every-other-week), when and if the current Chair, Daniel Campbell, is away on business travel. The level-of-effort and time commitment for this Vice-Chair position should be fairly low. Daniel is available roughly 90% of the time, with the Vice-Chair to assume the role…



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DMSC at Control 2023

Last month we announced that DMSC Director of Marketing, Ray Stahl would attend the Control International Trade Fair 2023. Following is a short summary of his visit. Our purpose for attending the 35th Control Show for the DMSC was to: • Promote the Quality Information Framework (QIF) standard at the largest quality inspection show with the most significant number of…



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DMSC Standards Committee Readies for MBC Submission from WG

The Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) Working Group (WG) is nearing completion of a new proposed metrology standard: MBC 1.0. WG co-Chair Mark Nielson (TechAzul) has indicated that a finished document should be ready for submission to the DMSC Standards Committee in just a few weeks. The process of moving from WG to the DMSC Standards Committee to ANSI is defined in…



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DMSC to Present “QIF Benefits” at CMSC

DMSC will be presenting “ISO 23952 – Enabling DX through standardization of manufacturing, test, and inspection data created both internally and by our supply chain” at the upcoming 38th Annual Coordinate Metrology Society Conference (CMSC) in Mobile, Alabama, July 10-14, 2023. The DMSC developed QIF 3.0 (Quality Information Framework) metrology standard has an ISO designation of ISO 23952:2020. The Coordinate…



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DMSC Visits Control Quality Assurance Show in Germany

DMSC will be represented at the 35th Annual Control International Trade Fair for Quality Assurance in Stuttgart, Germany, 9 - 12 May 2023. DMSC’s Marketing Director, Ray Stahl, will be in attendance at the show, evangelizing QIF (Quality Information Framework) adoption and recruiting for membership in Digital Metrology Standards Consortium. Multiple DMSC member companies will be among the 760+ exhibitors…



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Time is Now to Join Standards Committee

Work by the Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) Working Group continues on a new American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard proposal. Preparations are being made to follow the required procedures for submitting the proposed standard to ANSI sometime in the next 60 days (April-May 2023). DMSC has re-formed the DMSC Standards Committee to meet this objective. The next step in the process…



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DMSC SharePoint Offers Insight Into Working Group Activity

In mid-2022, DMSC began the migration from using their Google Drive to using Microsoft SharePoint as the repository for sharing DMSC files and folders. This transition is now nearly complete, with current Working Group (WG) proceedings (and more) being available to all via DMSC SharePoint. Participation has been highly-active by way of the scheduled WG meetings and there has been…



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QIF 4.0 Working Group Update

A substantial effort to upgrade the existing ANSI standard QIF 3.0, was formally commenced by DMSC back in October 2022. Regular 1-hour Working Group (WG) meetings have been held on an every-other-week cadence. Daniel Campbell (Capvidia) is the Working Group Chair, and Tom Kramer (TKC) is the Project Manager. The QIF Community has shown high interest in the WG meetings,…



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Formation of Standards Committee for the new Model-Based Characteristics Standard

As the Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) Working Group puts the finishing touches on a new, proposed American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard document, preparations are being made to follow the required procedures for submitting the proposed standard to ANSI. DMSC is re-forming the Standards Committee to meet this objective. The next step in the process is a final review and approval…



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Model-Based Characteristics Working Group Update

Working Group Nears Final Review for New ANSI Standard The Model-Based Characteristics Working Group (MBC WG), which has been actively developing a new Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) metrology standard since 2019, is nearing the proverbial finish line. The yet-to-be-submitted new ANSI standard is centered around the identification and usage of product characteristics (PC) that can be augmented with criticality…