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The MBE Summit has brought academia, government, and industry experts together for over 10 years to share the challenges, implementation issues, and lessons
NIST's Industrial Wireless Systems team’s paper, titled “On the Impact of TIG Welding Interference on Industrial Wi-Fi Networks: Modeling of Empirical Data and
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The Smart Manufacturing Operations Planning and Control Program will develop and deploy advances in measurement science that enable performance, quality
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Alp Akcay, Stephan Biller, Boon Ping Gan, Christoph Laroque, Guodong Shao
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MESA MOM/CMM (Manufacturing Operations Management / Capability Maturity Model) Assessment Tool is a questionnaire-based tool designed to help evaluate maturity
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