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# 49^th^ ISO TC 184/SC 4 meetings 

# Industry Day:  Future of STEP for Manufacturing activities 

# Hôtel Mercure Atria, Toulouse (France) - June 28, 2006

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## 1. Introduction to the Industry Day

ISO TC 184 is the international Technical Committee in charge of the
standards work on **Industrial automation systems and integration**.

One of its Sub-Committees, namely ISO TC 184/ SC 4 "Industrial data", is
developing a set of standards called STEP (ISO 10303) for exchanging
industrial data.

The STEP format has been used to share Digital product information at
the design stage but is also essential to the NC community[^1] as the
basis for an innovative feature-based concept for NC machining, called
**STEP-NC**.

The concept has been successfully demonstrated around the world for
milling, turning, EDM and inspection, but not yet been commercially
implemented.

In October 2005 in Beijing, China, ISO TC184/SC 1 and SC 4 members met
jointly and decided to foster STEP-NC implementations through three
demonstrations to be organized in 2006:

-   the first in Busan, Korea, at the beginning of May 2006,

-   the second in Toulouse, France at the end of June dedicated to the
    Aerospace industry,

-   the third at the end of October in Hershey, USA dedicated to
    Automotive industry.

In March 2006 in Vico Equense, Italy, ISO TC184/SC4 supported the
initiative and selected the theme:

"Manufacturing - product information for current and future generation
systems\"

to be the common technical lead for all SC 4 collective events in
Toulouse.

**2.** **Organization of the** **Industry** **Day**

The Industry Day in Toulouse is going to take place on Wednesday 28th
June and will consist of two main sessions:

-   In the morning (8:30 -- 11:30) - Université Paul Sabatier --
    Laboratoire de Génie mécanique :

> a **live demonstration** of Aerospace test parts machining

-   In the afternoon (13:30 -- 17:00) - Mercure Atria:

> a **panel discussion** to draw the future of STEP for manufacturing
> business.
>
> **At 8:15 AM** a coach will carry attendees from Mercure Atria to
> Université Paul Sabatier and back to Mercure Atria for lunch.

### Live demonstration 

NC machining experts will be invited to attend a live demonstration of
5-axis milling of Aerospace test parts provided by Airbus.

During the live demonstration:

-   the generation of the STEP-NC program will be explained,

-   test parts will be machined.

A previous machining done in Boeing's plant will be displayed.

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Major actors involved in the demonstration :

-   Airbus,

-   Boeing,

-   CIMPA,

-   LGMT (Laboratoire de Génie Mécanique de Toulouse),

-   LSC,

-   NIST,

-   STEPTools.

**Users, NC controllers suppliers, machine manufacturers and
laboratories will have the opportunity to assess the benefits from the
feature-based machining.**

### 

### Panel discussion 

Following the demonstration, a panel discussion will enable experts from
international organizations to highlight the innovations of the STEP-NC
feature-based concept during a broad review of previous and ongoing
initiatives.

According to the Aerospace industry vision expressed as:

**Design anywhere, Build anywhere, Support anywhere**

panel participants will outline the future direction of STEP for
manufacturing:

fully-integrated applications in an interoperating environment

with a product lifecycle support perspective

**As a conclusion of the panel discussion, a road map for the new
STEP-NC project will be discussed.**

Please go to Page 5 for the draft schedule.

**3.** **Registration**

**Who should attend ?**

Attendees are expected to include Companies managers (R&T, concurrent
engineering, manufacturing, IS, quality, customer support and others) as
well as SME's representatives involved in NC machining.

Local (Toulouse is part of the French Aerospace Valley), national,
European and worldwide organizations interested in CAD, CAPP, CAM and
CNC will be welcome.

Last but not least we will be very pleased to welcome organizations that
want to join the worldwide industrial data standardization efforts.

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### If you plan to attend ISO TC 184/SC 4 meetings in Toulouse (26-30 June 2006, Hôtel Mercure Atria)  Please go to the [**ISO TC 184/SC 4 Web site**](http://www.tc184-sc4.org/SC4_Open/Meetings/Future_Meetings/Toulouse/accueil_Toulouse.htm) -- section "Meeting Registration Form"  and tick the "Industry Day" box when registering.

### If you attend only the Industry Day on Wednesday 28^th^ June 

Please fill up the following form:

Miss Mrs Mr FAMILY NAME
.....................................................

FIRST NAME
.................................................................................................................

COMPANY
...................................................................................................................

ADDRESS
.....................................................................................................................

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POST CODE ....................................

TOWN .........................................................COUNTRY
..................................................

PHONE ............................................ FAX
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Email
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| **FACILITIES FEE**                                     |             |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| Wednesday 28^th^ June, Toulouse, Hôtel Mercure Atria   |             |
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| -   Industry day: Future of STEP for Manufacturing     | **140 €**   |
|     activities (08:15 -- 17:00)                        |             |
+--------------------------------------------------------+-------------+

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PAYMENT

By cheque drawn on a [French]{.underline} bank to the order of CTA
Events

By credit card Eurocard Mastercard Visa American Express

Card number:
..............................................................................................................

Expiry date: .............../.................. TOTAL AMOUNT : 140 €

Signature :

***And send it no later than15 June 2006 to**:*

CTA Events -- Delphine Michel

22 avenue de Purpan 31700 BLAGNAC - France

Fax: +33 5 34 406 615 -- email: <delphine.michel@cta-events.com> --
Phone: +33 5 34 405 760

### More Information ?

Alain BRAIL <alain.a.brail@airbus.com>

Jean Yves DELAUNAY <jean-yves.delaunay@airbus.com>

### Christine HERMETET-FILEZ [**Christine.hermetetfilez@afnor.org**](mailto:Christine.hermetetfilez@afnor.org)

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**4.** **Draft Schedule of the Industry Day**

### Wednesday, June 28^th^ -- Departure by coach from Hotel Mercure Atria at [08:15.]{.underline}

### [08: 30 to 11: 30]{.underline} Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse-- Laboratoire de Génie mécanique  Demonstration - Live Machining using STEP-NC

Presentation of the NC program preparation

\- Path 1: using features

\- Path 2: direct translation

Live machining of test parts provided by Airbus

Machining of test parts done in Boeing's plant

### *Back to Hôtel Mercure Atria for lunch.* 

### [13:30 to 17:00 ]{.underline}Hôtel Mercure Atria - Amphithéâtre  Panel Discussion - Future Directions for STEP-Manufacturing

Review of STEP-NC initiatives

Users requirements from Aerospace industry and Small and Medium
Enterprises

Future of STEP for Manufacturing

[^1]: Working within ISO TC 184, under the umbrella of Sub-Committee 1
    "Physical device control".