Earlier this month, Evan Kessick (Elysium) and Daniel Campbell (Rubypoint) hosted a webinar, “Extending the Digital Thread with Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) and QIF,” exploring how Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) and UUIDs are quickly becoming industry standard for ensuring engineering requirements remain intact, persistent, and traceable, from design, through manufacturing, and into inspection.

The webinar is now available on the DMSC YouTube channel and is a great resource for learning how modern CAD tools, QIF, and 3D viewables can extend their digital thread with model-based characteristics, delivering accuracy, consistency, and efficiency across the product lifecycle.

Check out the webinar now by clicking below, as well as other DMSC tutorials and webinars.

Did you know the DMSC has a comprehensive Resources page where you can find videos, presentations and other QIF-related materials? Click below to explore more.

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Save the date for Thursday October 16 at 2:00 PM EST for a webinar hosted by Evan Kessick (Elysium) and Daniel Campbell (Rubypoint), “Extending the Digital Thread with Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) and QIF.”

Model-Based Characteristics (MBC) and UUIDs are quickly becoming industry standard for ensuring engineering requirements remain intact, persistent, and traceable, from design, through manufacturing, and into inspection. As digital tools continue to evolve, so do the capabilities to create and maintain a digital thread using model-based characteristics. This thread can begin in native CAD, extend through neutral formats like QIF, and carry forward into a visual data package, enabling enterprise consumption and traceability.
 
Participants will explore how modern CAD tools, QIF, and 3D viewables can extend their digital thread with model-based characteristics, delivering accuracy, consistency, and efficiency across the product lifecycle.

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At a recent DMSC General Membership Meeting it was revealed that “2D QIF” was of high interest to a substantial portion of the DMSC membership.

DMSC announces this topic will be addressed and explained in a 1-hour technical webinar on Wednesday, March 19 @ 2pm ET.

If your engineering environment today is 2D drawings, this webinar will describe the benefits of automation, characteristic management, and transition to MBD. Real-life examples and strategies will be shown.

Register below!

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DMSC announces this topic will be addressed and explained in a 1-hour technical webinar on Wednesday, March 19 @ 2pm ET.

If your engineering environment today is 2D drawings, this webinar will describe the benefits of automation, characteristic management, and transition to MBD. Real life examples and strategy will be shown.

Mark your calendars and look for future announcements!

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With the 2023 passing of DMSC founder, Bailey Squire, the DMSC funded an annual scholarship with UNCC as a way to assure Bailey’s accomplishments would be remembered far into the future. The DMSC/UNCC intent is to encourage students that have a committed interest in the field of metrology.

The recipient of the first scholarship, Samuel Parsons, was notified and has accepted the award. He is currently enrolled full-time at UNCC in the Mechanical Engineering program with a concentration in Precision Engineering & Metrology. A rising senior entering the Fall 2024 semester, he has a cumulative GPA of 3.03 and is from Fayetteville, NC.

Mark Walter, Director of UNCC Scholarship Office, remarked, “financial support of scholarships allows students to remain in college when they have no other financial alternatives, and recognizes students who excel academically.”

UNCC and its Engineering Department have promoted the DMSC scholarship and are preparing to review a batch of new applications to select the second award in the next few weeks.

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Since this is an important use case, Sam led the discussion to clarify how QIF, from its conception, was designed to work with 2D drawings. Then, with the prevalent advent of 3D MBD model availability, QIF’s characteristic-centric, feature-based approach naturally and simply accommodated 3D MBD models.

To better socialize this critical knowledge, the DMSC Team is working on a new use case webinar for 2D QIF. Look for an announcement detailing dates and times for the webinar. As is our practice, the webinar will be recorded and made available for later viewing on our YouTube channel and a link will be added to our website in the Resource Center.

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DMSC members and solution providers:  Capvidia and ITI Global have teamed up to host a one-hour QIF webinar scheduled for Thursday, September 7th at 10am CT.

This no-charge webinar features all new QIF-centric content showing the correct implementation of MBD/MBE by providing necessary steps such as publishing & validating QIF data. The joint presentation will showcase the value of automating with MBD/MBE by reducing errors, introducing cost-savings, and improving product time-to-market. ITI and Capvidia will provide insights into ISO QIF, a neutral CAD format that is highly regarded and adopted by companies preparing for MBE.

In this free, hour-long webinar, we will cover the following:

• What is QIF and how to unlock MBD/MBE?
• How QIF impacts design, manufacturing, inspection and the supply chain.
• How to get started with QIF and MBE initiatives.

All registrants will have an option to view the recording after registering for the webinar.

The ISO QIF format is a robust neutral CAD standard pivotal for driving Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) initiatives. It facilitates the direct use of 3D MBD data downstream, automating tasks in quality control and other applications.

About Capvidia
Capvidia provides True MBD (model-based definition). Model-based definition (MBD) is the practice of having the 3D CAD model become the authoritative information source for a product’s lifecycle. This is done by including semantic product manufacturing information (PMI) within the 3D CAD model that is both human and machine-readable. Innovators in digital manufacturing have seen double-digital productivity gains (up to 20%) with the adoption of model-based workflows. www.capvidia.com.

About ITI, a Wipro company
ITI specializes in conversion, integration, validation and migration solutions for product data and related systems. Our customers recognize the value of having a trusted solution partner that provides more than just software. ITI solves complex product data interoperability problems so that the world’s leading manufacturers can focus on making great products. In 2019 ITI became a wholly owned subsidiary of Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company. ITI operates within the Wipro Engineering business that provides customers with a platform to innovate and engineer the next generation of products and platforms at scale. www.iti-global.com

Webinar Register – click here

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The webinar series will focus on QIF-centric topics and related subjects such as GD&T and MBE. The 20-30 minute presentations may be introductory level or more advanced content, and are intended to educate a broad variety of QIF implementers or future users. There will be a 15 minute Q & A session after each of the presentations.

Webinar technical content is provided by both QIF End Users and QIF Solution Providers with the goal of sharing real-life QIF or related implementations by advanced manufacturing operations.

QIF Tech Series “Coffee Chats”: (all sessions commence at 11am ET)

April 27, 2021
What is QIF: Where did it come from and where is it heading?
Presented by Jennifer Herron (CEO, Action Engineering)
Recorded Presentation: Watch Now

May 25, 2021
Advanced MBD with QIF: Capvidia’s and Schneider Electric’s Long Term Vision
Presented by Daniel Campbell (Capvidia) and Narendra Akhadkar (Schneider Electric)
Recorded Presentation: Watch Now

June 22, 2021
Reporting with QIF and MODUS CHART
Presented by Tom Lewis (Product Manager, Renishaw)
Recorded Presentation: Watch Now

July 27, 2021
Closed Loop Manufacturing with QIF
Presented by Hany Abdel-Motaleb   (Data Management & MeasurLink Sales Engineer, Mitutoyo America) and Paul Sevin (Technical Products Specialist, Caron Engineering)
Recorded Presentation: Watch Now

August 24, 2021
Introduction to C++ for QIF
Presented by Tom Kramer (NIST Guest Research)
Recorded Presentation: Watch Now

September 28, 2021
Planning Your Model-Based Journey
Presented by Jesse Zahner (Project Specialist, Sigmetrix) and Ross Snyder (Application Engineer, Sigmetrix)
Recorded Presentation: Watch Now

October 26, 2021
Closing the Skilled Labor Gap With QIF
Presented by Geoff Foulds (Director of Business Development, Origin International)
Recorded Presentation: Watch Now

November 30, 2021
Using QIF for Efficiency Gains Both Today and Tomorrow
Presented by Colby Finn (VP of Strategic Marketing, QVI/OGP) and Tom Groff (Chief Technology Officer, QVI/OGP)
Recorded Presentation: Watch Now

QIF Tech Series Coffee Chat Schedule for 2022 Coming Soon!

In 2020, QIF 3.0 was published as ISO standard ISO 23952:2020, “Quality Information Framework (QIF) – An integrated model for manufacturing quality information”. This standard was developed by DMSC to support the entire scope of Model-Based Definition manufacturing workflow.

DMSC is a non-profit corporation with the charter to enhance, maintain and support the QIF standard and the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS).

For more information about upcoming presentations, opportunities, and DMSC’s activities, contact DMSC Executive Director, Mark Thomas.

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Starting in April 2021, the DMSC kicks off the QIF Tech Series. This will be a series of “Coffee Chat” webinars intended to inform and educate the Quality/Metrology community about Quality Information Framework (“QIF”) implementations and best practices.

End-users and Solution Providers (SP) are invited to present their perspectives on QIF topics in a relaxed, non-competitive webinar venue. Each “Coffee Chat” will be a 20-30 minute presentation, followed by 15 minutes for questions and answers.

End-Users are encouraged to share their experiences on the “QIF Journey” with real-world stories and insight as to the future of what is needed for QIF to continue its progress as a mainstream strategy.

Solution Providers can introduce themselves, discuss technical solutions and share how their offerings have become key components in the QIF implementations by End-Users. Sessions by the SPs are intended to be solution-focused, and will undoubtedly be an opportunity to acquaint the QIF community with what solutions are available and who can provide them.

The DMSC’s “Coffee Chat” sessions will be offered monthly (at a minimum) throughout the summer/fall.

Topics of interest:

• What is QIF: Where did it come from, and where is it heading?
• QIF End-User Implementation Success Story
• Model-Based Definition (MBD) & QIF topics
• GD&T topics & QIF
• How Metrology Standards Benefit Advanced Manufacturing Companies
• End Users and Solution Providers are encouraged to add other topics that may be of value

DMSC Member End-Users and Solution Providers are requested to submit QIF-centric topics they would like to discuss with the DMSC Quality/Metrology community. Several sessions have been scheduled for the upcoming months. We encourage you to develop your presentation concept and submit it soon for consideration; June is the next available slot on our schedule.

DMSC Members are invited to submit their presentation title & abstract to DMSC Executive Director Mark Thomas as soon as possible: mark.thomas@qifstandards.org

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Webinar: QIF 101
Understanding QIF Basics
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2020

This event has now passed; however the webinar was recorded and is now available for viewing along with a PDF of the presentation on our QIF Resources page.

More on this past event:
First, one must understand the basics of the ANSI/DMSC Quality Information Framework (QIF) interoperability standard.  DMSC President Curtis Brown discussed what QIF is, why it matters and how it provides benefit to the Model-Based Enterprise (MBE).

Open to All: Please share the webinar video & PDF download link found on our QIF Resources page freely with your peers and colleagues.

Recorded Access: These webinar tutorials were recorded and are now available for viewing on our QIF Resources page.

Recommendation before or after viewing the recorded webinar: Download QIF 3.0 (free)

Don’t Miss:

QIF 201 Reviewing QIF Technology
DMSC Board Director Daniel Campbell reviewed the technology of the standard, the structure of the QIF, and top-level data elements of the QIF schema.

QIF 301 Coding QIF Applications
QIF 301 got more technical as we shared one way to write code implementing the QIF.  DMSC Member Tom Kramer followed a code writing approach using a common coding language. Viewers gained a better understanding of what the QIF is, how it can be used and implemented, and why it is needed for the connected digital cyber/physical enterprise.

The above webinars were announced via DMSC newsletters and website postings. Sign up to be added to the DMSC contact list.

DMSC plans to participate in the next MBE Summit which has been rescheduled for 2021.

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