One of the goals of the recent MBE/QIF Summit was to encourage dialogue among proponents of two standards – the STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product model data) community and the QIF (Quality Information Framework) community. Individually, both standards are well-known in the industrial manufacturing universe, and each comes from different starting concepts on the design vs quality approach…
In June 2020, the DMSC began the development of a new metrology standard to provide a common approach for tagging and uniquely identifying product characteristics that are of interest for the product realization process in a Model-Based environment. The goal was to create an ANSI/ISO standard that would be applicable for both human-readable communication and machine-readable applications that can enable…
The DMSC Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) Working Group (WG) completed a proposal of a new standard to be proposed to ANSI for approval. The proposed new standard offers Nomenclature, Definitions and Symbols for Model-Based Characteristics with persistent identification. According to ANSI procedures, there are several steps that DMSC must complete before the proposal is submitted to ANSI. First, the DMSC had…
Jennifer Herron, Digital Metrology Standards Consortium Board Director and Action Engineering CEO, attended the 85th Plenary for ISO/TC 184/SC 4 on behalf of the DMSC as a Class-A Liaison held in St. Dennis, France in June 2023. She shares with us her notes on the meeting discussions, as well as her presentation. ISO/TC 184/SC 4 is the ISO committee that…
The DMSC Standards Committee, chaired by Ray Admire, will meet in-person June 20-22, 2023 at the University of Texas at Arlington (DFW). The Standards Committee will convene and complete a final review of the to-be-submitted Model-Based Characteristic (MBC 1.0) tandstandard document, and then do a formalized vote to decide to submit this version of the MBC 1.0 to ANSI. The…
DMSC will be represented at the 35th Annual Control International Trade Fair for Quality Assurance in Stuttgart, Germany, 9 - 12 May 2023. DMSC’s Marketing Director, Ray Stahl, will be in attendance at the show, evangelizing QIF (Quality Information Framework) adoption and recruiting for membership in Digital Metrology Standards Consortium. Multiple DMSC member companies will be among the 760+ exhibitors…
Work by the Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) Working Group continues on a new American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard proposal. Preparations are being made to follow the required procedures for submitting the proposed standard to ANSI sometime in the next 60 days (April-May 2023). DMSC has re-formed the DMSC Standards Committee to meet this objective. The next step in the process…
In mid-2022, DMSC began the migration from using their Google Drive to using Microsoft SharePoint as the repository for sharing DMSC files and folders. This transition is now nearly complete, with current Working Group (WG) proceedings (and more) being available to all via DMSC SharePoint. Participation has been highly-active by way of the scheduled WG meetings and there has been…
A substantial effort to upgrade the existing ANSI standard QIF 3.0, was formally commenced by DMSC back in October 2022. Regular 1-hour Working Group (WG) meetings have been held on an every-other-week cadence. Daniel Campbell (Capvidia) is the Working Group Chair, and Tom Kramer (TKC) is the Project Manager. The QIF Community has shown high interest in the WG meetings,…
As the Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) Working Group puts the finishing touches on a new, proposed American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard document, preparations are being made to follow the required procedures for submitting the proposed standard to ANSI. DMSC is re-forming the Standards Committee to meet this objective. The next step in the process is a final review and approval…
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