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…
Tomasz Luniewski, CEO & founder of Capvidia, delivers a presentation on the topic of QIF and how it fits into the workflow of Model Based Enterprise. This presentation was delivered at Metromeet 2016 in Bilbao, Spain, on February 25th, 2016. The presentation and accompanying demonstration of QIF interoperability can be viewed below: QIF at Metromeet - Bilbao, Spain -…
Action Engineering has joined the DMSC! See the press release here for further information.
The 2015 QIF Summit in the Dallas area was a great success. QIF version 2.1 was approved by DMSC members and will be submitted to ANSI for official publishing. The symposium featured a number of highly engaging presentations from members of the QIF community. A ZIP file containing all the presentations can be downloaded here (53 MB). Presentations were given from…
September 28 - Oct 1, 2015 Phoenix, AZ GPDIS is organized by The Boeing Company, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Parker Aerospace and Elysium Inc. The Global Product Data Interoperability Summit (GPDIS) is the communications hub for industry principals to foster knowledge through the exchange of ideas, solutions, and methods. It also builds consensus for tool and process standards in the industry.…
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