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1. Cover Trifold format Twofold Left Twofold Right Twofold (unfold the cover) 8.5” high by 3.67” wide Back contact info Twofold left Threefold Threefold Center Right 8.5” high by 11” wide Threefold (unfold Twofold-right)

2. Quality Measurement Data Specification Effortless data flow for SPC QMD Booth 1029 Vendor Demos Daily at 10:30 and 2:30 ASI DataMyte NIST I&R Partners ProLink InfinityQS QMC Minitab Siemens Mitutoyo Statgraphics

3. Twofold - left- right • QMD • The Benefits • Eliminates wasted resource, money and time in data integration tasks. • AllowsSolutions Providers and Gage manufacturers to redirect more energy on new development. • Gages can communicate with more Reporting tools, making gages more useful. • Reporting tools can accept data from more sources, making reporting tools more useful. • Customers reap the benefits to focus more on core business. • Ensures that customers know what they will receive when their gage or reporter states “QMD Conformance Class 3 + Catalogs A, B, and Z” . • Maps to any legacy database schema (by merit of mix and match, dropping unwanted elements, and allowing catalogs / data elements to associate alternatively to headers /measurements or footers. • QMD • QMD is an open, non-proprietary format specification for SPC data. It allows effortless exchange of data between products of different vendors. • The Need • Gage and reporting solution providers are consumed with integrating data to suit limitless customer requirements. • Translation prevents users from conveying data cheaply, easily • Measurement data is created in many different formats • Applications export their measurement and/or SPC data in many different formats • The data are usually translated between application and user formats, at great cost • Translation incurs overhead by application developers Open here to see the QMD Data Flow!

4. Back The QMD specification is available at www.aiag.org (product code “D-25”) for $39 AIAG members/$78 non-members. For more information contact: Akram Yunas, ayunas@aiag.org Display, Reports & Analysis Variable Measurements Attribute Measurements QMD format Database Web Service Any Measurement Data! File System The NIST test utility for verifying QMD files can be accessed at:www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/metrology_interoperability/qmd_test_suite.htm. User name and password are “qmdspec”, without the quotes. Contact: John Horst (301) 975-3430 john.horst@nist.gov

5. QMD • The Benefits • Eliminates wasted resource, money and time in data integration tasks. • AllowsSolutions Providers and Gage manufacturers to redirect more energy on new development. • Gages can communicate with more Reporting tools, making gages more useful. • Reporting tools can accept data from more sources, making reporting tools more useful. • Customers reap the benefits to focus more on core business. • Ensures that customers know what they will receive when their gage or reporter states “QMD Conformance Class 3 + Catalogs A, B, and Z” . • Maps to any legacy database schema (by merit of mix and match, dropping unwanted elements, and allowing catalogs / data elements to associate alternatively to headers /measurements or footers. The QMD specification is available at www.aiag.org (product code “D-25”) for $39 AIAG members/$78 non-members. For more information contact: Akram Yunas, ayunas@aiag.org QMD Quality Measurement DataSpecification Effortless data flow for SPC Display, Reports & Analysis Variable Measurements Attribute Measurements QMD format Database Web Service Booth 1029 Vendor Demos Daily at 10:30 and 2:30 Any Measurement Data! File System ASI DataMyte NIST I&R Partners ProLink InfinityQS QMC Minitab Siemens Mitutoyo Statgraphics The NIST test utility for verifying QMD files can be accessed at:www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/metrology_interoperability/qmd_test_suite.htm. User name and password are “qmdspec” without the quotes. Contact: John Horst (301) 975-3430 john.horst@nist.gov Open here to see the QMD Data Flow!

6. QMD • QMD is an open, non-proprietary format specification for SPC data. It allows effortless exchange of data between products of different vendors. • The Need • Gage and reporting solution providers are consumed with integrating data to suit limitless customer requirements. • Translation prevents users from conveying data cheaply, easily • Measurement data is created in many different formats • Applications export their measurement and/or SPC data in many different formats • The data are usually translated between application and user formats, at great cost • Translation incurs overhead by application developers Supporters of QMD at Quality Expo

7. Spare stuff storage QMD Can Benefit Vendors and Users! The proliferation of proprietary formats for quality measurement data is costing manufacturers and their suppliers (SPC software vendors, typically) significant losses in labor and data quality. Suppliers must write translators for each of these formats, at substantial cost per translation. Furthermore, license and compliance certification fees must be sometimes be paid. If broadly adopted, a complete, correct, and unambiguous open, **non-proprietary** standard for quality measurement data can eliminate these and other costs. Version 1.0 of QMD (Quality Measurement Data), has been defined and published at the AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group). The QMD specification is planned for standardization in the near future. The QMD effort has been ably led by quality experts in OEM and supplier companies. Several important SPC software suppliers, including InfinityQS, ASI DataMyte, Mitutoyo, Minitab, StatGraphics, Siemens PLM Software, QMC, and ProLink, have written implementations of QMD into their software. Public interoperability demonstrations of the production and consumption of quality measurement data by these various SPC software providers have been successfully conducted at several quality technology shows, including Quality Expo 2007.