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The Intelligent Systems Division supports a future in which U. S. manufacturing grows more accurate, agile, intelligent, interoperable, and reconfigurable through constant innovation. Our work promotes the development of measurement and interoperability standards that will enhance manufacturing robotics and automation equipment and the underlying industrial control systems.   These are key elements of a future in which U. S. manufacturing and competitiveness will be driven by an accelerating pace of technological change that encompasses product and process innovation, as well as reduction in time to market, higher quality and better performance of customized products, increased productivity and reduced costs, and new safety and security challenges. More...

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Manufacturing Competition Challenges University Teams to Stack a Better Pallet Manufacturing Competition Challenges University Teams to Stack a Better Pallet

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking university teams to participate in a May 2010 Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition to simulate an industrial robot …