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1 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
John Horst The National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) ia.cmm International Conference Sinsheim (Germany), April 28th, 2005

2 NIST Metrology Interoperability Project team members
28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

3 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
Outline What do we mean by the “interoperability problem” for dimensional metrology? What is NIST’s role in solving the problem? What have been some of our successes? 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

4 Dimensional Metrology System with Standard Interfaces
GD&T definition Inspection features and tolerances STEP AP219 Off-line inspection process planning Inspection process plans DMIS Part geometry and design tolerances STEP AP203 2nd Edition Inspection execution Measurement histories QML?? Business process Measurement results DML Reporting & analysis CAD Gage information Proprietary, QML?? CMM Control commands and responses I++ DME Gage integration Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs)

5 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
Outline What do we mean by the “interoperability problem” for dimensional metrology? What is NIST’s role in solving the problem? What have been some of our successes? 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

6 Dimensional Metrology System with Standard Interfaces
GD&T definition Inspection features and tolerances STEP AP219 Off-line inspection process planning Inspection process plans DMIS Part geometry and design tolerances STEP AP203 2nd Edition Inspection execution Measurement results DML Reporting & analysis Measurement histories QML?? Business process CAD Gage information Proprietary, QML?? CMM Control commands and responses I++ DME Gage integration Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs)

7 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
The “interoperability problem” System users cannot easily and cheaply build systems from components Component vendors have to support many different proprietary interface languages Measurement quality suffers The interoperability solution: concurrent development of Interface standards: Timely, unambiguous, sufficiently functional, and consensus-based Implementations: Timely, compliant, fully functional, interoperable, and performed by a critical mass of vendors worldwide Tests: Product must pass conformance and interoperability tests for purchase 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

8 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
Outline What do we mean by the “interoperability problem” for dimensional metrology? What is NIST’s role in solving the problem? What have been some of our successes? 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

9 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
Provide leadership, analysis, consultation, and testing support; working through AIAG MIPT I++ & IA.CMM DNSC & EDUG Regular and frequent implementers meetings to ensure Compliant implementations Consistent, unified, and documented feedback to spec writers to ensure unambiguous and sufficiently functional spec 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

10 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
Write test suites consisting of test cases, test utilities, test artifacts, and example code modules for enabling new implementations Public interoperability tests to further encourage compliant implementations and unambiguous spec 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

11 I/F Standards Test Development
NIST Validation Testing Validation Testing Interoperability Testing Can this specification support what my software can do? Why aren’t our two implementations communicating well? Conformance Testing How do I need to augment my product to conform? How well does this vendor’s software conform to the standard? Specification Writers Software and Hardware Vendors

12 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
Outline What do we mean by the “interoperability problem” for dimensional metrology? What is NIST’s role in solving the problem? What have been some of our successes? 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

13 The Measurement Results Interface
GD&T definition Inspection features and tolerances STEP AP219 Off-line inspection process planning Business process Inspection process plans DMIS Part geometry and design tolerances STEP AP203 2nd Edition Measurement results DML Measurement histories QML Inspection execution Reporting & analysis CAD Gage information Proprietary CMM control commands and responses I++ DME Gage integration Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs)

14 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
The Measurement Results Interface Impact NIST CRADA partner, Mitutoyo, recently delivered a DML compliant product to GE Transportation; CRADA partners DCS, LK, and Tecnomatix have working products at Daimler Chrysler Daimler Chrysler has performed tests with several other DML compliant products (Wilcox, Zeiss, Metrix, Cognitens, Capture3D) Highlights Successful 2  1 connection interoperability test at IMTS Successful 3  3 connection interoperability test at Quality Expo 2005 in Chicago 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

15 The Inspection Process Plan Interface
Off-line inspection process planning GD&T definition Inspection features and tolerances STEP AP219 Inspection process plans DMIS Part geometry and design tolerances STEP AP203 2nd Edition Inspection execution Reporting & analysis Measurement results DML Measurement histories QML Business process CAD Gage information Proprietary CMM control commands and responses I++ DME Gage integration Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs)

16 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
The Inspection Process Plan Interface Impact DMIS is implemented by a majority of CMM software vendors worldwide DMIS conformance classes defined The DMIS National Standards Committee (DNSC) approved NIST’s design for a DMIS conformance test suite and unanimously signed an appeal urging NIST support for conformance test generation The DNSC, EDUG, and I++ DME groups are making substantive progress towards harmonization with I++ DME 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

17 CAD and GD&T Data Interfaces
Off-line inspection process planning Inspection features and tolerances STEP AP219 GD&T definition Business process Inspection process plans DMIS Part geometry and design tolerances STEP AP203 2nd Edition Measurement histories QML Inspection execution Reporting & analysis Measurement results DML CAD Gage information Proprietary CMM control commands and responses I++ DME Gage integration Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs)

18 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
The CAD and GD&T data Interface Impact A draft vision for enabling open interface standards and implementations generally accepted by the community (MIPT) CRADAs at NIST have begun with key software vendors 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

19 The Dimensional Measuring Equipment (DME) Interface
GD&T definition Inspection features and tolerances STEP AP219 Off-line inspection process planning Inspection process plans DMIS Part geometry and design tolerances STEP AP203 2nd Edition Measurement results DML Inspection execution Reporting & analysis Measurement histories QML Business process CAD CMM control commands and responses I++ DME Gage information Proprietary Gage integration Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs)

20 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
The Dimensional Metrology Equipment Interface Impact Most of the key coordinate measuring machine (CMM) hardware and software vendors worldwide now have implementations of I++ DME and are using NIST test utilities Two new test suite versions released (bootstrapping implementations) CRADA partners Zeiss and Wenzel as well as Renishaw have announced I++ DME compliant products 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

21 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
The Dimensional Metrology Equipment Interface Problems resolved The appearance of I++ DME-compliant implementations Two new test suite versions released (bootstrapping implementations) Zeiss, Wenzel, Renishaw and others have announced I++ DME compliant products 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

22 NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards
Successful Demonstrations of Metrology System Component Interoperability at the International Manufacturing and Technology Show (IMTS) Chicago, September Quality Expo Chicago, April Control 2005 Sinsheim, April 2005 28/04/2005 John Horst NIST

23 Distributed Interoperability Testing
LK/UK Mitutoyo/Germany Zeiss/Germany Wilcox/France Tecnomatix/USA NIST/USA Wilcox/Italy

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25 Zeiss Wenzel Sheffield
Interoperability Demo at IMTS (Sept, 2004) for the DME Interface using I++ DME Zeiss Wenzel Sheffield Calypso Camio emMeasure Metrologic Metrosoft PC-DMIS

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