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Quality Measurement Data Specification
Effortless data flow for SPC
ASI DataMyte NISTI&R Partners ProLinkInfinityQS QMCMinitab SiemensMitutoyo Statgraphics
Booth 1029
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, [email protected]
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
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, [email protected]
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
Database
File System
Display,Reports
& Analysis
WebService
QMDformat
Any Measurement D
ata!
Attribute Measurements Variable Measurements
Quality Measurement DataSpecification
Effortless data flow for SPC
Quality Measurement Data SpecificationQMD
Database
Attribute Measurements
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Vendor Products
Gages
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AnyData sourcee.g. Data base,file system, etc
ManualDatainput
Convertformat
SPCApp
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Display,Reports
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Unlimited Flow of Quality DataQuality MeasurementData Sources
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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.