Joint MBE and QIF Summit Offers Model-Based Enterprise Focus Forum
The NIST MBE Summit has brought academia, government, and industry experts together since 2009 to share the challenges, implementation issues, and lessons learned in design, manufacturing, quality assurance, and sustainment of products and processes where a Model-Based approach is used. This includes all aspects of the product lifecycle from design, manufacturing, quality assurance, and sustainment of products, where a digital 3D model acts as the authoritative source of information.
QIF Summit
The DMSC have been gathering people and organizations interested in developing an open standard to facilitate the seamless movement of a model-based definition and manufacturing quality data. Quality of Information Framework 3.0 is a structured way to achieve that objective. Everyone interested in the standard and those who want to help improve and expand it will have the opportunity to do so at the summit.
About QIF
QIF (Quality Information Framework) is a standard that supports Digital Thread concepts in engineering applications ranging from product design through manufacturing to quality inspection. Based on XML, the QIF standard contains a Library of XML Schema ensuring both data integrity and data interoperability in Model Based Enterprise implementation.
QIF supports Design, Metrology, and Manufacturing and is critical to the Industrial Revolution 4.0. Because it is XML-based, QIF can be easily integrated with Web/Internet applications. Unlike other standards, no competence barrier is standing in the way of the industry adopting QIF. It also effectively supports new concepts like IoT (Internet of Things).
Finally, all discrete manufacturing industries now have a standard platform that ensures quality while minimizing costs and making processes more transparent.
The Venue
MxD (Manufacturing x Digital) advances economic prosperity and national security by strengthening U.S. manufacturing competitiveness through technology innovation, workforce development, and cybersecurity preparedness. In partnership with the Department of Defense, they convene an ecosystem to solve critical manufacturing challenges by accelerating digital adoption, empowering a skilled workforce, and modernizing supply chains. MxD is also the National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing as designated by DoD. MxD is hosting the 2025 MBE & QIF Summit April 15th -17th, 2025.
For more information: www.qifstandards.org
