Curious about how to catalyze the digital thread with feedback loops made possible by MBD plus QIF to establish an interoperable and automatable Bill of Characteristics (BoC)? At our June 28, 2022 QIF Tech Series Coffee Chat (1), Action Engineering CEO Jennifer Herron demonstrated how the Quality Information Framework Version (QIF) 3.0 defines the BoC as a list of all…
Attention Solution Providers: We have a low-cost marketing opportunity for those of you attending/exhibiting at IMTS 2022! DMSC seeks Sponsors to support the DMSC General Membership Meeting & Mixer at IMTS. This event will be held on Tuesday, September 13th @ 4–6pm. Your support will help offset the DMSC cost to offer an open bar and hors d'oeuvres to our…
DMSC will have a booth (Booth #135000) at IMTS for the entire duration of the show, September 12 – 17, 2022 at McCormick Place in Chicago. Our booth will be manned by Mark Thomas, DMSC Executive Director as well as an informal rotation of DMSC Members and Directors. While some DMSC member companies may also have a booth at the…
CCAM (Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing) of Disputanta, VA is holding an in-person Smart Manufacturing event on August 30 & 31, 2022 at their Virginia facility. Subject matter of this event is directly relevant to the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) and QIF community. This two-day event will include a session on Digital Technology to Impact Smart Manufacturing on Day…
Originally announced in April, 2022, a DMSC Exploratory Task Group will investigate the feasibility of a formalized QIF training program. With QIF-centric educational opportunities being sparse, the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium sees new training options as key to future widespread adoption of the Quality Information Framework/QIF standard as industry continues its digital transformation. The DMSC Board of Directors has authorized…
When Tom Kramer accepted the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium's Next Version QIF Project Manager role, he wasted no time in making it a consensus-building effort. A broadcast invitation was sent to an extended distribution list, resulting in nearly 40 stakeholders in the QIF community responding. The invitation list went well beyond the usual DMSC membership. Tom had already reached out…
On April 11 2022, InnovMetric announced the release of PolyWorks 2022, a new software product that features support for the Quality Information Framework standard (QIF) in Model-Based Definition applications within their new universal data hub. PolyWorks 2022 offers the premiere open digital enterprise infrastructure for managing 3D measurement data. Native CAD and QIF MBD file readers import all Geometric Dimensioning…
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