To facilitate the production process of cutting tools, a tool control system creates the geometrical data to manufacture workpieces (cutting tools) on a tool manufacturing machine. Afterwards for quality control these workpieces are measured on measuring machines and the deviations need to be taken into account for further production of tools.

This interface defines how this exchange of geometrical data between tool control system, production and measuring machines happens. Implementation of this interface on all relevant systems will enable a highly optimized and largely automated processing of this data.

Getting and setting grinding wheel geometrical data from a measurement machine and a grinding machine to enable exchange to a tool management system.

Grinding wheel set is measured offline on a "setting machine" and added to the grinding machine at a process change over.

Grinding wheel set geometrical information needs to be transferred to and from the machine to enable a factory wide tool management.

Grinding wheel sets can be measured inline on the grinding machine as well and these measurements need to update the overall geometry of the grinding wheel set.