Why is QIF Relevant?
Modern quality manufacturing operations consist of complex cyber-physical systems that are required to constantly gather and use digital manufacturing data. Often multiple players throughout the supply chain employ one or more proprietary software products, resulting in a critical communication break between supply chain partners. The data relevant to each partner must be intelligently organized and communicated. Enter Quality Information Framework (QIF): an XML-based, CAD-agnostic platform and standard. QIF seamlessly defines, organizes, and associates quality information including: measurement plans, results, part geometry and product manufacturing information (PMI), measurement templates, resources, statistical analysis, etc
Who does QIF appeal to?
- Metrologists: QIF can be used to transmit information between supply chain partners on how and what to measure, as well as communicate the results from the measurement.
- PLM/PDM owners: QIF can be used to bring your quality information into the “digital thread” for your manufacturing operation and associate all your quality information directly to your master model.
- Metrology software implementers: QIF is an unambiguous, holistic, fully digital standard for metrology information. This will help software implementers, whether your organization is large or small in producing and/or consuming quality data.
A Reliable Standard
QIF is created and managed by the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium, the DMSC. The DMSC is the creator, owner, and maintainer of the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS) standard (ANSI/DMIS 105.3-2015), which is the most widely recognized and used standard in the field of metrology. QIF (ANSI/QIF 3.0-2018), is an American National Standard (ANS); harvested by ISO in August 2020 to become ISO 23952:2020.
ISO
International Organization for Standardization is an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 161 national standards bodies based in Geneva, Switzerland.
ANSI
American National Standards Institute founded in 1918 is a 501(c)3 private, not-for-profit organization based in Washington DC.