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Welcome to the Website of the
Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium
The mission of Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium
(DMSC, Inc.) is to identify urgently needed standards in the field of
dimensional metrology, and to promote, foster, and encourage the development and
interoperability of these standards,
along with related and supporting standards that will benefit the industry as a
whole. The Dimensional Measuring
Interface Standard (DMIS) is one
such standard that the consortium
has the responsibility to develop, maintain and support as well as to coordinate
and harmonize with other related standards efforts. The DMSC is an ANSI Accredited Standards Developing Organization, as well as an A-Liaison to ISO. The consortium invites participation within the
consortium of other standards groups and activities that seek to resolve the
technology and other issues of automated dimensional metrology. Read more on DMSC.)
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NEWS RELEASE; The Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC, Inc.) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announce the first-ever award of DMIS certification to Siemens PLM Software. -- (John Horst, NIST, john.horst@nist.gov, 301-975-3430)
At the September 2010 International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago, IL, the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC, Inc.) was proud to announce the first-ever award of DMIS certification which goes to Siemens PLM Software, a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services. Siemens PLM Software's new NX CMM inspection Programming application -- an integral part of the NX (tm) software CAD/CAM/CAE solution -- is now the first and only product officially certified by the DMSC as producing DMIS part programs which conform to DMIS version 5.2 (the latest version) of the "prismatic level 2" conformance Class. Mr. Bailey Squier, Executive Director and General Manager of the DMSC, performed the certification.
The Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS) has been under development for more than 20 years by the non-profit standards-generating DMSC organization. DMIS is and continues to be the only international standard (DMIS version 4.0 is an ISO standard) for quality measurement information exchange. DMIS version 5.2 has also now become an ISO standard.
One challenge over the years has been the proliferation of DMIS implementations which comply with the standard at varying extents. This has been a non-trivial hindrance to interoperability given that interoperability is the goal of an information exchange standard. Taking full responsibility for this situation, the DMSC developed and announced in 2008 a DMIS Certification Program consisting of a certification process centered around two important items:
- A DMIS conformance test suite, generated by NIST
- A document precisely specifying the criteria required in order to become certified.
Currently the NIST DMIS Test Suite (NDTS) and the certification criteria both address the conformance of DMIS generating software only, though there are plans to define a test for DMIS consuming software as well.
Please contact John Horst (contact information above) for any questions regarding DMIS Certification.
Note: NX is a trademark or registered trademark of Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
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New DMIS 5.2 Standard now available! |
DMIS 5.2 APPROVED AS STANDARD
The new version of the Dimensional Measuring Interface
Standard (DMIS), revision 5.2, has been completed and was approved by ANSI on August 4, 2009, as an American National Standard. DMIS 5.2 includes multi-axis scanning capabilities along with many additional enhancements. Orders are now being accepted for the new DMIS Standard via our Online Store. To order your copy, and learn more about DMIS 5.2, click on this link to our Online Store.
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