Early in 2022, the DMSC hired Dr. Tom Kramer on a consulting basis to evaluate the current technical status of QIF 3.0, and determine what the next level of enhancement would be appropriate to keep QIF in a leadership position as a digital metrology standard. This initial effort was referred to as “Phase 1” of the Next Version QIF initiative. Over the last several months, Tom organized multiple public meetings designed to capture input from many sources, even those outside the DMSC community, about potential future enhancements for QIF.

On August 2, 2022 Tom held a public meeting to discuss his findings which identified a “laundry list” of items that could be changed/corrected/added to QIF 3.0, all with the objective of motivating the User community to further adopt QIF. Tom’s findings were extensive – his “Phase 1” report and conclusions are available for review on the DMSC SharePoint drive Meeting2022Aug2

Tom Kramer will also be joining us at IMTS 2022 in Chicago and is slated to present at our General Membership Meeting & Mixer. Join us in person Tuesday, September 13th 4-6pm at McCormick Place Meeting Room E353C.  We will also broadcast live via our moderated GoToMeeting link:

If you have issues accessing the Sharepoint link above, please contact Mark Thomas, DMSC Executive Director, mark.thomas@qifstandards.org

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Over the last few weeks, as feedback from the regularly scheduled public meetings was collected, input (a vote) was requested from DMSC company representatives. Tom indicates that fewer than half of those invited to vote have cast a vote.

There are two questions for consideration:

1) requesting preference between having the Next QIF be version 3.1 or version 4.0.
2) was an investment style vote indicating company preferences for large areas of QIF development.

If your company DMSC rep has not expressed their opinion via their vote, please urge your DMSC rep to do so or pass the vote to someone else in the company by July 29, 2022 via email to Tom Kramer.

Input from non-DMSC members is valued and encouraged.

A final public web meeting on the Next QIF (Phase 1) is scheduled for 11:00 AM ET on Tuesday, August 2. Dr. Kramer plans to present the recommendations of his final report at that meeting.

Direct any additional questions to Tom Kramer or DMSC Executive Director, Mark Thomas.

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This time change will accommodate the monthly QIF Coffee Chat webinar, which was already scheduled to start at 11am ET. We hope you can join us for that presentation as well; registration is required to attend our free QIF Coffee Chat webinars.

We expect this to be a one-time-only change, although potentially, future Next Gen QIF meeting start times may also be adjusted should we have another conflict with the QIF Coffee Chats. DMSC will advise if that is the case.

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