Product category:
Manufacturing Technology Books, CDs and Videos
News Release from: DMIS National Standards Committee | Subject: Metrology standard
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 April 2007
Metrology standard is being offered at
half price
The DMIS National Standards Committee is offering the DMIS 5.0 Standard for the bi-directional communication of inspection data between computer systems and metrology equipment half-price.
As a special introductory offer, the DMIS metrology standard is being offered at half price from April 10, through the month of May, 2007, for either the CD or download This offer is being made in order to introduce the DMIS 5.0 Standard to more companies who are in need of a reliable, common interface standard for the bi-directional communication of inspection data between computer systems and metrology equipment
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 31 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Training workshop for DMIS standard
A revised and improved Training Workshop for the programming and implementation of the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS 5.0) with an introduction to the new I++ DME specification.
Seminar on new specification for DMIS
A workshop focuses on the programming and implementation of the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS 5.0) with the introduction of the new I++ DME specification.
Many companies, especially those in different locations, find that writing all measurement programs in the DMIS language enables them to exchange inspection programs seamlessly regardless of the measuring equipment being used.
To obtain your copy of the DMIS 5.0 standard at this special price go on-line and place your order.
In the "Comments" box, you must type, "Special Introductory Offer," to receive the discount.
Further reading
Maintaining manufacturing automation trade secrets
ISA has published 'Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets: What Automation Professionals, Manufacturers, and Business Owners Need to Know'.
'Industrial Encoders For Dummies' published
Linear and rotary optical encoder manufacturer and the 'For Dummies' brand have teamed up to produce an innovative tutorial guide on industrial encoders.
The world-wide metrology community is experiencing a come-back from the concepts of "Make it right first time, every time," which had the manufacturing world in a spin several years back.
One idea was to eliminate the Quality Assurance process, and to control manufacturing parameters such that every product was built to specifications without any need for inspection.
This idea caught on like wildfire, although it was never truly adequately implemented.
During that time an executive of a very large manufacturing company asked a simple question: "If we build it right first time, every time, how will we know for sure? If an airplane crashes and our government demands the inspection data that the parts were made correctly, what do we say? 'Our parts were manufactured to the exact specifications by controlling the manufacturing parameters?'" None of the answers brought forth any certainty.
Quality Assurance has long been considered a needless step-child at the end of the line, rejecting (almost) perfectly good parts.
Yet, in today's manufacturing world where micro-inches (or cm) are a rough guess, the need for Quality Assurance has quietly re-escalated again to the forefront as a genuine necessity, however unwanted and unloved.
The DMIS standard offers the opportunity to write and execute measurement programs that are accurate and provides communication between automated equipment.
DMIS is designed to be both man-readable and man-writable, allowing inspection programs to be written and inspection results to be analysed without the use of computer aids.
With the enhancement of the High Level Language extensions, DMIS can function and even be implemented as a DME language.
• DMIS National Standards Committee: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Manufacturingtalk email newsletter
• Manufacturingtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
