DMSC will be represented at the upcoming ISO TC 184 event in Paris (Saint-Denis, France) June 12 – 15, 2023. Jennifer Herron, Action Engineering CEO and DMSC Board Member, has been designated as an official DMSC Liaison to ISO. The event will include the Plenary Meeting of ISO/TC 184 and its subcommittees, working groups, and task forces. The International Organization…
DMSC has been searching for ways to accelerate worldwide Quality Information Framework/QIF adoption. Increasing the availability of QIF Subject Matter Experts (SME) will add exposure and expertise of QIF within the metrology community. The DMSC Board of Directors (BoD) has approved the formation of a new Working Group to pursue development of a formal Training/Certification program. Development of a multi-tiered…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
