Design, Manufacturing, and Inspection Data for a Box Assembly

To better understand and address the challenges faced in linking all stages of a manufacturing and design process, an investigative fabrication process was designed and enacted as part of a collaboration between National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC). This collaboration sought to test selected open standards' ability to integrate the product-lifecycle stages of engineering design, manufacturing, and quality assurance through a thorough implementation of a small scale model-based enterprise (MBE). This dataset was generated as a result of the collaboration.

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Directory Structure

• CAD
  • Digital Product Definition, in accordance to ASME Y14.41-2012, created using SolidWorks 2016
• Clean
  • Raw output from machine tool adapters with white-space and recording errors cleaned
  • Pipe delimited in accordance with the MTConnect standard v1.3
• FAIR
  • First article inspection reporting data in QIF 2.1 format
  • Data conforms to QIF XSD
  • Each file contains data for 20 instances of the same part
  • NIST / Mitutoyo completed inspection
• MTConnect
  • XML-formatted data of the machine tool output data in accordance with the MTConnect standard v1.3
  • Data conforms to MTConnect v1.3 schemas
• NC-Code
  • Machining programs for operations steps for each part in accordance with ISO 6983 (G-code)
• PartData
  • Combined "Split" data organized into data blocks by part instance
• QIF-IncomingInspection
  • Receiving / incoming inspection reporting data in QIF 2.1 format
  • Data conforms to QIF XSD
  • Each file contains data for 20 instances of the same part
  • The MTC in the UK completed inspection
• Raw
  • Raw output from machine tool adapters as recorded on the given date and machine
• Split
  • Parsed "Clean" data split into data blocks by operation for each part instance

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Thomas Hedberg and Moneer Helu are the Coordinators of the SMS Test Bed.

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Date created: August 17, 2018 | Last updated: November 21, 2018 | Contact: SMS Test Bed Coordinators