The International Organization for Standardization is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organization of member countries. The organization develops and publishes international standards in all technical and nontechnical fields other than electrical and electronic engineering. As of February 2023, ISO has developed over 24,676 standards, covering everything from manufactured products and technology to food safety, agriculture, and healthcare.

In preparation for the event, Jennifer has been thoroughly briefed on the progress of the DMSC QIF 4.0 Working Group. QIF 3.0 is currently designated ISO 23952-2020.

Rosemary Astheimer, DMSC Treasurer and Board Member, will also be attending the event, representing NIST.

ISO in-person events of this sort are intended to collaborate across the membership and foster new ways of connecting and working on global standardization.

If you are attending, connect with Jennifer via email or LinkedIn to set up an in-person chat about the DMSC’s activities and our QIF Standard.

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Oct. 24, 2022

OAGIS has a 28-year reputation of serving companies all over the globe with the most powerful canonical standard in the world for enterprise business transactions. From purchase orders and ship notifications to maintenance requests and work-in-progress status notifications, OAGIS does it all. Additionally, the standards harmonization efforts over the years have led to interoperability between OAGIS and EDI X12, IPC 1754, S-Series, Chem eStandards, AgXML, and the list goes on.

Now, with the release of OAGIS 10.8.3, the Open Applications Group is pleased to announce further interoperability between OAGIS and the QIF 3.0 standard from the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC). QIF 3.0 is the leading quality standard for manufacturing companies and offers thorough support for quality information specifications, as well as reporting of the quality results after manufacturing and machining has completed. To support this major development in standards interoperability, OAGIS has made considerable updates to their Test Specification, Test Method, and our Test Results nouns. For more information, please visit oagi.org.

As you may have heard, we will be upgrading the QIF standard to 4.0 in the coming months. If your organization is folding QIF functionality into your interoperability objectives and manufacturing solutions, be sure to stay in touch regarding this upcoming release. Reach out to our Executive Director, Mark Thomas with questions and comments: mark.thomas@qifstandards.org

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Elysium Major Product Update
Now Supports QIF 3.0

Software company Elysium has announced support for QIF 3.0 (Quality Information Framework) in the latest product update of their 3DxSUITE EX9, available August 1, 2021. This newest update offers primary support of QIF 3.0 with bi-directional translation and validation of the MBD portion. Elysium also supports change detection within QIF, as with any supported format.

Elysium’s inquiries for QIF have grown the over past couple of years and their level of QIF support continues to evolve, responding to increasing customer demand. Annalise Suzuki, VP of Technology and Engagement elaborates, “The MBE first-movers are increasing their MBE objectives from MBD visual aides to leveraging more from semantic information to achieve machine-readable workflows, which is where formats like QIF and STEP AP242 can add lifecycle value for automation. Based on the increased demand in this area, we are excited to add support for QIF 3.0, with continued collaboration from our innovative customers.”

DMSC President, Curtis Brown, reflects on this recent development, “We are very pleased to see continued demand by the MBD community as our valued DMSC solution providers, such as Elysium, respond to their customer’s requests to include QIF 3.0 support.”

“Our multi-CAD exchange and 3D interoperability expertise provide an ideal position to strongly support CAD & QIF connectivity, as well as validation,” says Kentaro Fukuta, Global Business General Manager at Elysium Japan.

As a current DMSC member, Elysium has been jointly working with both customers in industry and metrology vendors for QIF-supported workflows. For more information about Elysium support for QIF, click here.

The Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC, Inc.), founded in 2005, is a non-profit consortium organization with the responsibility of developing and maintaining the QIF standard (ISO 23952:2020), and other metrology standards. The broader DMSC mission is to promote, foster, and develop interoperability standards and quality data frameworks for the manufacturing field of digital metrology. The purpose of these digital metrology standards is to positively impact the digital thread for the Model-Based Enterprise (MBE). The DMSC is an ANSI Accredited Standards Developing Organization, as well as an A-Liaison to ISO. The consortium invites participation within the consortium of other standards groups and activities that seek to resolve the technology and other issues of automated (digital) metrology.

Mark Thomas
Executive Director, DMSC, Inc.
mark.thomas@qifstandards.org
585-451-5800

Elysium is a software company that has been in the forefront of 3D geometry handling and data translation for over three decades. With the rapid spread of 3D data and move towards accomplishing MBD/MBE initiatives, Elysium has been providing industry leading 3D interoperability and point cloud solutions throughout the world including industry leaders such as Boeing, Daimler, Alpine F1 Team, Toyota and more than 3,500 other companies.

Elysium also has OEM partnerships with leading companies worldwide.

Elysium has its global headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan as well as R&D and marketing offices in the US and Europe. With more than 90 employees worldwide and a network of international partners and distributors, Elysium solutions have become the de facto standard for many world-class companies.

Annalise Suzuki
VP of Technology and Engagement, Elysium
annalise.suzuki@elysiuminc.com
248-799-9800

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Autodesk, Inc. recently released AutoCAD Inventor 2022 with a focus on collaboration workflow and automation. Quality Information Framework (QIF) 3.0 support has been added this new release. Previous AutoCAD versions included limited Jupiter Tessellation (JT) file support for exporting Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) data, while this latest version adds support for exporting semantic PMI data as part of a QIF file.

The new Autodesk Inventor 2022 functionality enables you to export a QIF file using the built-in export feature in the AutoCAD Inventor software product. QIF is an ANSI and ISO open standard framework that contains semantic PMI and other metadata. A QIF 3.0 file enables MBD (Model Based Definition) data to be used by downstream applications in manufacturing and quality.

Autodesk’s Knowledge Network explains the new “Export to QIF” feature in Inventor 2022:
Inventor 2022 Help | Export to QIF | Autodesk

DMSC President Curtis Brown comments “…speaking for the DMSC Board of Directors, members of the DMSC, and all those who are QIF supporters, this is great news! We are so pleased that an American multinational software provider has included QIF export functionality for the manufacturing and metrology community.

The known impact of QIF for those pursuing digital engineering and model-based enterprise (MBE) is becoming more of a reality.

Thank you Autodesk.”

QIF 3.0 is published and available as ISO 23952-2020. AutoCAD Inventor 2022, a highly popular subscription-based 2D/3D CAD package developed by Autodesk, Inc, is available for download now.

The Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) is an ANSI Accredited Standards Developing Organization, as well as an A-Liaison to ISO. QIF was harvested by the International Standards Organization and elevated to ISO 23952:2020 in August 2020.  The consortium invites participation within the consortium of other standards groups and implementers seeking to resolve the technology and other issues of automated (digital) metrology.

For more information contact Mark Thomas, DMSC Executive Director.

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A 1-hour live demo developed by ISO TC184/SC 4 WG 15, will be showing multiple Digital Twin use cases on October 27 at 9:30 EDT. The ISO 23247 (Digital Twin Manufacturing Framework) effort has a goal of providing a generic development framework for the use of the digital twin in manufacturing.

The presenting group will show three use case simulations with products and processes on the manufacturing floor, using standardized data and networking protocols. QIF, STEP and MTConnect will be shown to be key elements of the demonstrations:

Use Case # 1 – Dynamic Robot Scheduling
Use Case # 2 – Component Weight Reduction
Use Case #3 – Process Optimization

Technology providers for the demonstration effort include Boeing, STEP Tools, MTConnect, ABB, and others.

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The Digital Metrology Standards Consortium recently had their ANSI/DMSC QIF 3.0 metrology standard harvested, approved, and published by ISO as the new ISO Standard ISO 23952:2020.

DMSC is the developer and maintainer of QIF (Quality Information Framework), and other metrology standards. These standards are intended to help advanced manufacturers reduce costs, offer a common format for product measurement results, and is a critical enabler for digital transformation via MBE (Model Based Enterprise).

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is an international standard-setting body comprised of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded in 1947 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the organization promotes worldwide industrial and commercial standards with over 164 countries participating.

The new standard, known as ISO 23952:2020, is available directly from ISO, and officially titled “Automation systems and integration — Quality information framework (QIF) — An integrated model for manufacturing quality information”. This 498-page document describes the general content and structure of the entire QIF information model. It documents the highest level data structures of QIF using data dictionaries and XML schema files. The standard seamlessly defines, organizes, and associates quality information including: measurement plans, resources, part geometry with product and manufacturing information (PMI), rule templates for measurement , results, and statistical analysis.

QIF 3.0 was accepted as an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard in 2018, then submitted for ISO “harvesting” by technical committee ISO/TC 184/SC 4 in early 2019, becoming approved, and officially published by ISO in July, 2020.

Curtis Brown, President of DMSC, commented “we are extremely pleased to have attained a DMSC goal – of having the ANSI/DMSC QIF v3.0 standard become recognized and published as an ISO standard. Navigating the ISO approval process has been insightful and challenging, with the reward that the ISO community is now able to offer ISO 23952 as an integrated model for manufacturing quality information.”

DMSC will continue to improve and enhance digital information standards such as the QIF, and the organization’s membership is in the process of refreshing their roadmap to broaden their development focus on technologies that will further support digitization, connecting the digital thread, and supporting model-based enterprise.

Interested parties may inquire about DMSC membership and development participation at the DMSC website.

For More Information
Mark Thomas, DMSC Executive Director
Phone: 585.451.5800
Email
Website

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The Summit was planned for the purpose of collaboratively bringing stakeholders together to examine digital transformation initiatives occurring from standard development organizations (SDO) and industry users.

The workshop format shared multiple presentations that were designed to initiate discussion about new ideas needed to move forward with efficient and effective vendor neutral, standards based interoperability. Day One featured four presentations with an Industrial User perspective, and Day Two offered four presentations from a SDO perspective. Each day concluded with a 1-hour moderated open discussion focused on the goals of the event.

Day One of the online event included a presentation by Robert Brown, VP – Operations for Mitutoyo America; “Interoperability for Feedback Loops from Dimensional Metrology in Digital Manufacturing”.  The 30-minute session highlighted several potential opportunities for interoperability standards, such as the Quality Information Framework (QIF), to provide a transport mechanism for use cases in digital manufacturing that require feedback loops. The session included abbreviated renditions of three real-life manufacturing case studies.

Mr. Brown is also a member of the DMSC Board of Directors.

The two-day event was hosted by MTConnect, and organized as a collaboration between ISA (International Society of Automation), MIMOSA (Open Standards for Physical Asset Management), MTConnect, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), and OAGi (Open Application Group Inc).

Over 100 participants from 73 different companies were registered for this 2020 virtual event.

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