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NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards

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. NIST Metrology Interoperability Project team members.

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NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards

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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 NIST Metrology Interoperability Project team members 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? John Horst NIST

  4. Reporting & analysis 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 Business process Measurement histories QML?? Measurement results DML 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? John Horst NIST

  6. Reporting & analysis 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 Business process Measurement histories QML?? Measurement results DML 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 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? 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 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 John Horst NIST

  11. Validation Testing I/F Standards Test Development NIST 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? John Horst NIST

  13. The Measurement Results Interface Inspection features and tolerances STEP AP219 GD&T definition Off-line inspection process planning Business process Inspection process plans DMIS Part geometry and design tolerances STEP AP203 2nd Edition Measurement histories QML Measurement results DML Reporting & analysis Inspection execution 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 John Horst NIST

  15. Reporting & analysis The Inspection Process Plan Interface Off-line inspection process planning Inspection features and tolerances STEP AP219 GD&T definition Inspection process plans DMIS Part geometry and design tolerances STEP AP203 2nd Edition Inspection execution Business process Measurement results DML Measurement histories QML 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 John Horst NIST

  17. Reporting & analysis 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 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 John Horst NIST

  19. Reporting & analysis The Dimensional Measuring Equipment (DME) Interface Inspection features and tolerances STEP AP219 GD&T definition Off-line inspection process planning Inspection process plans DMIS Part geometry and design tolerances STEP AP203 2nd Edition Measurement results DML Inspection execution Business process Measurement histories QML 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 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 John Horst NIST

  22. NIST Support for Dimensional Metrology Interface Standards Successful Demonstrations of MetrologySystem Component Interoperability at theInternational Manufacturing and Technology Show (IMTS) Chicago, September 2004Quality Expo 2005 Chicago, April 2005Control 2005Sinsheim, April 2005 John Horst NIST

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

  24. 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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