The DMSC QIF Training/Certification Working Group (WG) was presented with a draft Charter at the most recent meeting, July 11, 2023. A Charter is an essential element that will guiding the group effort far into the future. The purpose of this WG is to develop a comprehensive QIF training program that may include certification (by DMSC) after completion. The initial…
DMSC Marketing Chair Ray Stahl sat down with QIF 4.0 Project Manager Tom Kramer to review the most common questions asked during QIF 4.0 Working Group sessions. Following is a recap of their discussion. • Optical digitizer measurement devices are being added to QIF measurement resources. An optical digitizer creates clouds of 3D points. Other additions and improvements to the…
DMSC has been searching for ways to accelerate worldwide Quality Information Framework/QIF adoption. Increasing the availability of QIF Subject Matter Experts (SME) will add exposure and expertise of QIF within the metrology community. The DMSC Board of Directors (BoD) has approved the formation of a new Working Group to pursue development of a formal Training/Certification program. Development of a multi-tiered…
A key objective of the QIF 4.0 Working Group is to add/upgrade functionality in the existing QIF 3.0 capability set. The planned QIF enhancements were a result of a Next QIF Phase 1 study to identify the needs of the QIF community, with the goal of accelerating QIF adoption. With QIF 4.0 providing the overall framework, some of the upgrade…
DMSC Announces Next Version of QIF Will Be 4.0 A long-awaited answer for the QIF (Quality Information Framework) Community has been revealed: the next version of QIF will be 4.0. Phase 1 Recently, the DMSC initiated a Phase 1 project to propose potential enhancements to the current version; QIF 3.0. Dr. Tom Kramer was contracted by the DMSC to evaluate…
Curious about how to catalyze the digital thread with feedback loops made possible by MBD plus QIF to establish an interoperable and automatable Bill of Characteristics (BoC)? At our June 28, 2022 QIF Tech Series Coffee Chat (1), Action Engineering CEO Jennifer Herron demonstrated how the Quality Information Framework Version (QIF) 3.0 defines the BoC as a list of all…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fort Worth, TX / Rochester, NY August 2, 2021 PDES, Inc. and DMSC, Inc. Sign Memorandum of Understanding PDES, Inc. is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSCTM, Inc.). Both organizations seek to improve the ways tools work together to improve standards development, analysis, and define…
DMSC News Release March 30, 2021 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…
July 27, 2021 @ 11am ET Closed Loop Manufacturing with QIF Presented by Paul Sevin (Technical Products Specialist, Caron Engineering) and Hany Abdel-Motaleb (Product Manager, Mitutoyo America) Recorded Presentation: watch now Abstract Paul Sevin from Caron Engineering and Hany Abdel-Motaleb with Mitutoyo explore closed-loop manufacturing with QIF. From production to inspection to automatic CNC machining center compensations, QIF's interoperability enables each…
