In most cases, a “Model-Based Enterprise” is going to include multiple CAD platforms. You could be a large corporation that uses multiple CAD applications or a smaller company that only uses one but has suppliers that use other CAD platforms. This reality means CAD interoperability challenges cannot be ignored. While each CAD system has strengths and weaknesses, the big five are capable of: modeling geometry, creating 3D annotations, defining attributes (metadata), and creating “presentation states.” We […]
3D CIC: Home Edition – Standards Rendezvous: An Interoperability Roundtable
Join us for a 3D CIC: Home Edition virtual event on November 9, 2020, with expert representatives from the ASME, DMSC, SAE, DEDMWG, ISO TC 184/SC 4, and MTConnect standards organizations. This roundtable discussion of interoperability and the ways in which the standards are looking to the future will consider how the standards support 3D CAD interoperability and the challenges they […]
Jennifer Herron Co-Presents ‘Using QIF to Trace Engineering Changes’ at GPDIS 2020
Jennifer Herron, Founder & CEO of Action Engineering, will represent the DMSC board of directors and co-present with Curtis Brown, DMSC President, at GPDIS 2020. November 12, 2020 ᛫ 2:00 pm ET Using QIF to Trace Engineering Changes One of the largest business benefits from digital 3D CAD data exchange in the supply chain is managing engineering […]
Meet Nothani: ASME Y14.41 Standard & Training Development
E. Nothani Bryant joined the Action Engineering team as a 2020 summer intern.Learn about his experiences creating a reference for the ASME Y14.41 standard and developing training content. Before I started the internship in earnest, I thought I would be mainly doing GD&T and analyzing models through 3D PDFs. GD&T was the only part of […]
ASME Releases MBE Recommendation Report
In October 2018, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) announced the development of an ASME Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) Recommendation Report. That report is now publicly available. Click here to to obtain a copy of the ASME MBE Standards Committee Recommendation Report. Following is a recap of the report objectives provided by Fredric Constantino, S&C […]
Reap the Benefits of Smart Manufacturing – 3D CIC Keynote
KC Morris of the National Institute of Standards and Technology will deliver one of the keynote addresses at the 2017 3D Collaboration and Interoperability Congress. 3D CIC and the Quality Information Framework Symposium will be held in Golden, Colorado on October 3-5, 2017. Presentation Are You Ready to Reap the Benefits of Smart Manufacturing? Macroeconomic justification […]
3D CAD Models for Mass Properties Control
Jennifer Herron, CEO of Action Engineering, collaborated with aerospace industry peers from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Mass Properties Engineering Committee on Standards to review and revise the Mass Properties Control for Space Systems standard (ANSI/AIAA S-120A-2015). This update was in response to contractors who noted that there were implicit requirements called out […]
Enterprise 3D Printing: All About That Communication
I recently co-authored “Towards Annotations and Product Definitions for Additive Manufacturing” with Dr. Paul Witherell and Dr. Gaurav Ameta. The title sounds official, as it should for a published paper, but perhaps, between you and me, we could give it a lighter name: All About That Communication. Cue Meghan Trainor. Forms of the word “communicate” appear 43 times in the paper! Yes, […]