Origin News & Events

    April 16-19 MBE Summit and QIF Summit

    Posted on Wed, Apr 03, 2024

    Origin will be exhibiting at the MBE Summit and QIF Summit April 16-19, 2024 Chicago.

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    Topics: QIF, MBE

    Awards at IMTS 2022

    Posted on Wed, Oct 26, 2022

    DMSC recognized Mr. Bob Stone from Origin International who made key technical contributions to the development of QIF 3.0, and are already involved in additional technical features that will be manifested in QIF 4.0.DMSC-Award

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    Topics: DMSC, QIF, IMTS

    Visit Origin at IMTS to see its contribution to the Grand Challenge

    Posted on Wed, Aug 29, 2018

    Visit Origin at booth #121627 - IMTS to see its contribution to the Grand Challenge. This is a joint effort by tooling and inspection vendors to demonstrate art to inspected part workflow -- in real time with actual production machines and parts.

    Origin to demonstrate the following:

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    Topics: origin international, DMSC, QIF, IMTS

    Hello World: Guide to QIF by Bob Stone

    Posted on Tue, Mar 06, 2018

    Hello World: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to QIF

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    Topics: origin international, QIF, 3D CIC

    Bob Stone Presents at 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress + Quality Information Framework Summit, October 2017

    Posted on Thu, Jun 15, 2017

    The 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress has become a yearly barometer of the state of collaboration and interoperability strategy, technology, and solutions for commercial and government organizations. Presenters and attendees are real-world users who represent the medical, aerospace, defense, electronics, automotive, industrial equipment, and other product development industries, with strong support by technology leaders for CAD collaboration and interoperability.WORKFLOW.jpg

    Watch the video below for Workflow, QIF Model Based Definition & Plan

    At the 4:11min mark, see the high level measurement plan that is now ready to be consumed by Origin's CheckMate CMM Programming Software (fully integrated with SOLIDWORKS) to be converted to a CMM program. Then generate an ISO standard DMIS CMM . The QIF MBD and Plan are loaded into the SOLIDWORKS environment using FormatWorks.

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    Topics: origin international, DMSC, QIF, 3D CIC

    Origin Participates in QIF Demo at IMTS 2016

    Posted on Wed, Sep 14, 2016

    Origin International Inc. a longstanding member of the DMSC and major contributor to the ANSI Quality Information Framework (QIF) standard will be participating in the QIF demonstration. QIF demonstration details.
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    Topics: QIF, IMTS

    Visit Origin at the IMTS Show Sept 12-17th

    Posted on Fri, Aug 26, 2016

    It's that time of year again for the annual IMTS Show Sept 12 - 17, 2016 at  McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. Come and visit Origin at the DMSC Booth: E-5000 to see QIF in action. We look forward to meeting you there!

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    Topics: DMSC, QIF, IMTS

    Origin Demo Times 10am/2pm daily - IMTS Show Sept 8-13th

    Posted on Tue, Sep 02, 2014

    Come and see Origin receive a QIF document containing features and tolerance, export DMIS to measure a part on a Renishaw Equator™, and translate DMIS format results to QIF Results format and pass that on to another application in a live demonstration with several other companies.

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    Topics: origin international, DMSC, QIF, IMTS

    Origin Live Demo at IMTS Show Sept 8-13th

    Posted on Tue, Aug 19, 2014

    Come see Origin International at the DMSC Booth (E-5200) during the IMTS show in Chicago (Sept 8-13) where we will receive a QIF document containing features and tolerance, export DMIS to measure a part on a Renishaw Equator™, and translate DMIS format results to QIF Results format and pass that on to another application in a live demonstration with several other companies.

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    Topics: origin international, DMSC, QIF, IMTS, Origin, Renishaw Equator®

    Origin asks...Are you ready for QIF?

    Posted on Mon, Jul 28, 2014

    QIF is the Quality Information Framework, a suite of XML based data models that contain everything from model definitions with associated GD&T, inspection plans, inspection results, to multi-part statistics in a common QIF document format. The new QIF 2.0 standard has been approved by the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) for progression to an ANSI standard and will be out for public review this fall.

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    Topics: origin international, CheckMate, metrology, QIF, Origin