(DMSC: Burleson, TX) -- The Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) will be conducting multivendor demonstrations of its quality information framework (QIF) during the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2014), Sept. 8–13, 2014, at Chicago’s McCormick Place. The QIF is a series of digital interoperability standards for the exchange of information across the entire quality measurement process, from model-based definition, to planning, results, and statistics. The demonstration will use QIF v. 2.0, the submitted release candidate for American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standardization.

On Dec. 19, 2013, ANSI approved QIF v. 1.0 as an American National Standard. This new standard covers the digital interoperability needs for a wide variety of use cases including feature-based dimensional metrology, quality measurement planning (QIF Plans), first article inspection (QIF Results), and discrete quality measurement. QIF models include quality characteristics and measurement features as defined in the ASME Y14.5 specification and the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS).

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