The manufacturing world is loaded with data. More companies are moving to Model-Based Definition (MBD) with Product Manufacturing Information (PMI), and those models are sent to contractors for component manufacture. These product designs are more complex than ever, presenting the need for improved quality systems. Many inspection tools have the capability of automated data collection, which generate mountains of data,…
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…
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