by Bailey Squier DMSC Executive Director Emeritus During our 2019 campaign to recruit and interview candidates to join the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) Board of Directors, questions arose about the history of the DMSC. It’s been nearly ten years since we first memorialized the evolution of the Dimensional Measurement Interface Standard (DMIS) and ultimately the formation of the Dimensional…
Measurement resources selection is a key issue in measurement process planning. As dimensional measuring equipment (DME) becomes available in ever-broadening ranges of versatility, accuracy, and complexity; however, optimization of resources selection for a supplier network becomes increasingly difficult. Dimensional Measuring Equipment (DME) is hardware and software used in a measurement process, e.g., a coordinate measuring machine, fixture, gage, probe, probe…
For Immediate Release June 15, 2018 BURLESON TEXAS Digital Metrology Standards Consortium ("DMSC"), the organization supporting critical manufacturing standards and Quality Information Framework ("QIF"), is sending their team to the International Manufacturing Technology Show ("IMTS") September 10-15, 2018 in Chicago Illinois. Key Directors and Members of DMSC will be hosting conversations and showcasing QIF implementations and supporting dimensional metrology…
Driving New Value and Innovation with QIF By: Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium/DMSC Date: March 12, 2018 The term “digital transformation” is used in business to describe the use of digital technology to radically improve the performance or reach of enterprises. It is, at its core, about process digitization and the strategic use of information to drive new value. QIF (the…
The Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) hosted the 2017 Quality Information Framework/QIF Summit October 3-6, 2017 in Golden Colorado. Our meeting coincided with the 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (also known in the trade as 3D CIC). In 2018, we plan to meet again during the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago, Illinois - so mark your calendars for…
Robert Lipman, Research Engineer, Systems Engineering Group at NIST has developed new software to 'analyze' Quality Information Framework (QIF) files. The software is based on ideas from his STEP File Analyzer software, for which he was awarded the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal. The new QIF software is called 'QIF PMI Report', or QPR. The objective is to generate a…
2016 IMTS QIF Interoperability Demonstration from Metrosage on Vimeo. (CC Available) == 2016 IMTS QIF Interoperability Demonstration == Visit us at IMTS 2016, booth E-5000 This demonstration features the following participants: * Capvidia -- MBDVidia for Creo * Capvidia -- FormatWorks * IPI Solutions -- Visual IPI * Mitutoyo -- MeasurLink * Metrosage -- Pundit CMM * Origin International --…
2016 IMTS QIF Demo - Capvidia, Metrosage, Origin, MTC from Metrosage on Vimeo. (CC Available) == 2016 IMTS QIF Interoperability Demonstration == This demonstration features the following participants: Capvidia, Metrosage, Origin International, Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) The ANSI Standard Quality Information Framework (known as QIF) is a feature-based ontology of manufacturing quality metadata, built on XML technology, and semantically linked…
Click to see a preview of the QIF-enabled workflow[/caption] The Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium will be demonstrating a beginning-to-end MBD workflow using QIF at IMTS 2016 Chicago, Booth E-5000. The workflow will incorporate CAD & GD&T (PMI) export, measurement plan creation for caliper and CMM measurements, optimized CMM measurement program generation, and advanced measurement results analysis and visualization. All data…
Dr. Edward Morse will be a keynote speaker at the CIRP Conference on Computer Aided Tolerancing (CAT), which will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on May 18-20th, 2016. His presentation will be on the topic of QIF, and is titled: "Interoperability: Linking Design and Tolerancing with Metrology". Abstract: On October 30, 2014 the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved QIF v…
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