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Quality Measurement Data Specification

Effortless data flow for SPC

ASI DataMyte NISTI&R Partners ProLinkInfinityQS QMCMinitab SiemensMitutoyo Statgraphics

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Vendor DemosDaily at 10:30 and 2:30

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QMDQMD is an open, non-

proprietary format specification for SPC data. It allows effortless exchange of

data between products of different vendors.

The Need• Gage and reporting solution providers are

consumed with integrating data to suit limitless

customer requirements.•Translation prevents users

from conveying data cheaply, easily

• Measurement data is created in many different formats• Applications export their

measurement and/or SPC data in many different formats

• The data are usually translated between application and user formats, at great cost• Translation incurs overhead

by application developers

QMD The Benefits

• Eliminates wasted resource, money and time in data integration tasks.

• Allows Solutions Providers and Gage manufacturers to redirect more energy on new development.

• Gages can communicate with more Reporting tools, making gages more useful.

• Reporting tools can accept data from more sources, making reporting tools more useful.

• Customers reap the benefits to focus more on core business.

• Ensures that customers know what they will receive when their gage or reporter states “QMD Conformance Class 3 + Catalogs A, B, and Z” .

• Maps to any legacy database schema (by merit of mix and match, dropping unwanted elements, and allowing catalogs / data elements to associate alternatively to headers /measurements or footers.

Open here to see the QMD Data

Flow!

BackThe QMD specification is available at www.aiag.org (product code “D-25”) for $39 AIAG members/$78 non-members. For more information contact:

Akram Yunas, ayunas@aiag.org

The NIST test utility for verifying QMD files can be accessed at: www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/metrology_interoperability/qmd_test_suite.htm. User name and password are “qmdspec”, without the quotes. Contact:

John Horst(301) 975-3430

john.horst@nist.gov

Database

File System

Display,Reports

& Analysis

WebService

QMDformat

Any Measurement D

ata!

Attribute Measurements Variable Measurements

ASI DataMyte NISTI&R Partners ProLinkInfinityQS QMCMinitab SiemensMitutoyo Statgraphics

Booth 1029

Vendor DemosDaily at 10:30 and 2:30

QMD The Benefits

• Eliminates wasted resource, money and time in data integration tasks.

• Allows Solutions Providers and Gage manufacturers to redirect more energy on new development.

• Gages can communicate with more Reporting tools, making gages more useful.

• Reporting tools can accept data from more sources, making reporting tools more useful.

• Customers reap the benefits to focus more on core business.

• Ensures that customers know what they will receive when their gage or reporter states “QMD Conformance Class 3 + Catalogs A, B, and Z” .

• Maps to any legacy database schema (by merit of mix and match, dropping unwanted elements, and allowing catalogs / data elements to associate alternatively to headers /measurements or footers.

Open here to see the QMD Data

Flow!

The QMD specification is available at www.aiag.org (product code “D-25”) for $39 AIAG members/$78 non-members. For more information contact:

Akram Yunas, ayunas@aiag.org

The NIST test utility for verifying QMD files can be accessed at: www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/metrology_interoperability/qmd_test_suite.htm. User name and password are “qmdspec” without the quotes. Contact:

John Horst(301) 975-3430

john.horst@nist.gov

Database

File System

Display,Reports

& Analysis

WebService

QMDformat

Any Measurement D

ata!

Attribute Measurements Variable Measurements

Quality Measurement DataSpecification

Effortless data flow for SPC

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Attribute Measurements

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AnyData sourcee.g. Data base,file system, etc

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Supporters of QMD at Quality Expo

QMDQMD is an open, non-

proprietary format specification for SPC data. It allows effortless exchange of

data between products of different vendors.

The Need• Gage and reporting solution providers are

consumed with integrating data to suit limitless

customer requirements.•Translation prevents users

from conveying data cheaply, easily

• Measurement data is created in many different formats• Applications export their

measurement and/or SPC data in many different formats

• The data are usually translated between application and user formats, at great cost• Translation incurs overhead

by application developers

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QMD Can Benefit Vendors and Users!The proliferation of proprietary formats for quality measurement data is costing manufacturers and their suppliers (SPC software vendors, typically) significant losses in labor and data quality. Suppliers must write translators for each of these formats, at substantial cost per translation. Furthermore, license and compliance certification fees must be sometimes be paid.

If broadly adopted, a complete, correct, and unambiguous open, **non-proprietary** standard for quality measurement data can eliminate these and other costs. Version 1.0 of QMD (Quality Measurement Data), has been defined and published at the AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group). The QMD specification is planned for standardization in the near future. The QMD effort has been ably led by quality experts in OEM and supplier companies. Several important SPC software suppliers, including InfinityQS, ASI DataMyte, Mitutoyo, Minitab, StatGraphics, Siemens PLM Software, QMC, and ProLink, have written implementations of QMD into their software. Public interoperability demonstrations of the production and consumption of quality measurement data by these various SPC software providers have been successfully conducted at several quality technology shows, including Quality Expo 2007.