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Engineering Laboratory /Systems Integration Division

Life Cycle Engineering Group

Develops, advances, and deploys measurement science to engineer the life cycle performance of products and processes, with particular emphasis on their sustainability. Carries out mission-related measurement science research and services to advance life cycle engineering for green manufacturing and construction applications; conduct life cycle engineering assessments for energy efficiency and environmental performance; and develop sustainability

News and Updates

Projects and Programs

Data Analytics for Smart Manufacturing Systems

Ongoing
Objective: Develop standards, software tools, methodologies, and guidelines to enable small and medium enterprises to apply data analytics services to improve decision-making and performance in smart manufacturing systems. Technical Idea: Manufacturers need enhanced decision-support tools that would

Systems Integration for Additive Manufacturing

Ongoing
Objective: Deliver an information systems architecture, including metrics, information models, and validation methods to shorten the design-to-product cycle time in additive manufacturing (AM). Technical Idea: AM adopters are increasingly facing many of the challenges faced by early computer-aided

Publications

Digital Twins for Robot Systems in Manufacturing

Author(s)
Ali Malik, Guodong Shao, Jane Tarakhovsky
The surging demand for industrial automation is propelling the use of robots, with emerging trends like autonomous mobile robots and collaborative robotic arms

Software

Unit Manufacturing Process (UMP) Builder

The Unit Manufacturing Process (UMP) Builder allows researchers to record their UMP models according to the ASTM E3012-16 standard . One of the main drivers

Awards