The organization’s mission is to “solve national security challenges through simultaneous excellence”. Their work encompasses all the Department of Energy’s missions: national security, science, energy, and environmental management.

The organization has a highly collaborative culture, which makes them a great fit for the DMSC development methodology. Our Quality Information Framework (QIF) standard is an important tool in their mission fulfillment.

We look forward to LANL staff participating in developmental DMSC Working Groups in 2023.

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At some of our more recent DMSC General Membership meetings, it was brought to our attention that there is a need for better “Join DMSC” membership materials that will assist companies in navigating their Quality Information Framework (QIF) journey as members of DMSC.

We listened, and a new set of membership materials is being developed to help prospective DMSC members understand the benefits of joining DMSC. The new membership materials will include:

• brief “Executive Summary” video
• updated “Benefits of Joining DMSC” value proposition summary
• updated “DMSC – Why, Who & What” PowerPoint, with a QIF technical focus for Engineers

This new DMSC membership promotional material trio is designed to introduce DMSC/QIF at the executive level, provide details about the benefits of joining DSMC and a myriad of technical points that will energize the engineering community about the expanded acceptance and implementation of the QIF standard by Quality organizations worldwide.

The expected release date for these new promotional materials is mid-April 2022, and will be available for download from the DMSC/QIF website for distribution to executives, engineers, and companies that may not be familiar with QIF and are beginning their MBD transformation.

Keeping our DMSC membership strong and growing is a priority that will keep QIF relevant now and in the future. DMSC membership, and all its benefits, is a viable way to streamline real-world QIF implementation.

For immediate information about membership, contact our Executive Director Mark Thomas by email: mark.thomas@qifstandards.org

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By DMSC Policy, the DMSC has the following constraints on the DMSC BoD:

• The BoD shall maintain a minimum of:
• • Two Directors from within the Hardware/Software (H/S) Provider’s categories
  • Two Directors from within the User/General Interest/Consultants (U/GI/C) categories

• The BoD shall consist of a maximum of six elected persons serving on the BoD.
• Each elected director’s term shall be a service of three years. Note, by policy, the DMSC President is a voting member of the BoD and whose office is not subject to term limits.
• Only one person from the same member company can serve on the DMSC BoD at any given time.
• Nominees can only come from DMSC member companies of good standing, whereas “good standing” means that the nominee’s company has paid their DMSC membership dues prior to any nomination, the nominee’s company is an active participant in one or many DMSC working groups or committees in the past year or demonstrated their support of the DMSC or DMSC standards, and by any other previously announced criteria as deemed necessary by the BoD.
• Existing BoD members can be nominated and elected for consecutive terms.
• Only one vote is allowed per member company for each opening in the DMSC BoD.

Based on the constraints specified above, nominations are now open for two 2022-2024 BoD members from either category.

 Nominations for this new 2022 openings must be submitted to Mark Thomas, DMSC Executive Director, mark.thomas@qifstandards.com by close of business (COB) December 6, 2021. Self-nominations are welcome.

On December 7, a list of nominees will be sent to the DMSC membership requesting return votes by CoB on December 31. Election announcements will be made on January 3, 2022.

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DMSC members have been invited to participate in a survey to rank items on the below task list for DMSC project activity. These are projects identified by the DMSC Strategy Committee. The charter of this committee is to determine a task list and priority for roughly 15 potential projects that ultimately would be useful to DMSC members and the metrology community.

DMSC Members received this survey invitation September 28, 2021; response is needed by October 31, 2021.  We value the input of our members and results will be used to determine a “wish list” as we move forward with both volunteer and contracted projects.

Survey Closes October 31, 2021

If you are a DMSC member in good standing but cannot identify this survey in your email inbox, please contact DMSC Executive Director Mark Thomas.

The following 2 questions will be presented in our survey, asking you to rank order the items. The top item (1) is the most important to your organization.

DMSC Next QIF Revision Topic List

DMSC Activities: You will be asked to order the following items
(1 – highest priority, 8 – lowest priority) :

A) Align/Map QIF Results to PPAP (AIAG)/AS9102B (SAE)/ Y14.45 (ASME) (work already in progress): This work will result in a list of recommendations for using QIF data types in support of these standards. Includes excel files describing the mapping.

B) Align/Map QIF to SysML: (work already in progress): This is the creation of the QIF system data model using SysML.

C) Digital Calibration Certificate: This is an activity to investigate aligning with NCSL International on the certification data for digital calibration for metrology.

D) Metrology Equipment OEE (Operational Equipment Effectiveness): The activity is to investigate and maintain alignment with existing standards that already define OEE (e.g. MTConnect and UMATI).

E) Free to use QIF 3D MBD Viewer: This is a free-to-use standalone application that presents a view of the 3D geometry, features, characteristics, measurement results in-situ with the 3D navigable geometry. It should be presented through a browser.

F) Free to use QIF 3D MBD Viewer with Table: This is a free to use standalone application that presents the 3D geometry, features, characteristics, measurement results in a table format alongside the 3D navigable geometry. It should be presented through a browser.

G) Free to use QIF Tabular Viewer: This is a free-to-use standalone application that presents the features, characteristics, measurement results in a table format. It should be presented through a browser.

H) Pursue making QIF a LOTAR approved format: This is an activity to determine and execute the steps to making QIF a LOTAR approved format.

New QIF Capabilities: Order the following items
(1 – highest priority, 8 – lowest priority)

I) Add/Align/Map org/company standards to QIF schema: Every organization/company has its own customized standards. This is an activity to investigate if it is feasible to map custom standards at any single company to QIF schemas.

J) Align/Map QIF to fastening process data (welds, glue, bolts, etc.) methods: This is an activity to investigate if it is feasible to map industry standards for fastening processes to QIF schemas.

K) Align/Map QIF to gear metrology: This is an activity to investigate and align to existing gear standards (e.g Gear Data Exchange (GDE)).

L) Enable QIF security assurance using Blockchain Reference Model: This is an activity to align with the NIST blockchain reference model. This is to embed traceability provenance.

M) Enable QIF security assurance using NIST Digital Manufacturing Certificate (DMC): This is an activity to align with the NIST digital signature certificate (DSC) to embed digital signatures into standard data exchange files for the purposes of certification and traceability.

N) Model-Based Characteristics (work already in progress): This is a separate standard that will include recommendations for identifying nomenclature, definitions, and symbols for model-based product characteristics with persistent digital identification.

O) Non-contact Metrology (work already in progress): This is a list of recommended updates and modifications to QIF schema files to be considered by QIF Standards Committees (Resources, Plans, etc.) to include non-contact metrology functionality. This will also result in a procedures document.

P) Point cloud results: This is an activity to determine updates to QIF to store the as-measured results of a point cloud within the QIF instance file. This includes data storage considerations.

We created this survey to hear all about what’s important to you. As always, we’ll stay in touch and keep you posted on this and other news.

Your response and participation is very important, so please meet with your team and submit your response before the deadline!

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As we approach mid-year 2021, DMSC has experienced strong membership renewals so far, and we expect that this will continue throughout the year. According to DMSC President Curtis Brown, “currently, renewals are near optimum levels, and coupled with several new, large company member additions, funding for this year looks secure.”

Our current DMSC Working Groups have had high participation. We have expanded our interoperability with other standards by building relationships with complementary organizations such as PDES and MTConnect. Additionally, our recent “Coffee Chat” QIF Tech Series webinars have drawn over 100 registrants for each session. These QIF-centric webinars, presented by DMSC member companies and individuals, will continue throughout the end of the year with the intent of guiding our members along their QIF journey by providing real-life use cases and solutions.

DMSC is very appreciative of the companies that have already renewed their membership for 2021. We thank you in advance to those that will renew their membership support as we progress through the year. Your continued membership ensures that we can continue with our planned work to enhance and support the QIF standard.

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