Process measurement & control

News and Updates

MBE & QIF Summit 2024

April 16, 2024

The MBE Summit has brought academia, government, and industry experts together for over 10 years to share the challenges, implementation issues, and lessons

NIST Researcher Presents on Use of SimPROCESD Software to Model Manufacturing Production and Maintenance

December 1, 2023

At the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, NIST researcher Mehdi Dadfarnia presented research findings based on use of NIST-developed SimPROCESD software, which can

NIST Industrial Wireless Systems Team Participates in ASTM F45 Committee Panel Discussion

December 1, 2023

NIST’s Rick Candell and Mohamed Hany were invited to participate in the ASTM F45.04 Robotics, Automation, and Autonomous Systems panel discussion on

Projects and Programs

Actionable Intelligence and Industrial AI

Industrial Artificial Intelligence Management and Metrology (IAIMM)

Ongoing

Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI), or Artificial Intelligence applied to industry applications, is defined by its requirement to fulfill an explicit need

Smart Manufacturing Operations Planning and Control Program

Completed

The Smart Manufacturing Operations Planning and Control Program will develop and deploy advances in measurement science that enable performance, quality

Metrology for Real-Time Monitoring of Additive Manufacturing

Completed

Part quality in additive manufacturing (AM) is highly variable due to inadequate dimensional tolerances, surface roughness, and defects, thereby limiting its

Crystallographic Databases

Ongoing

Components and devices used in a broad spectrum of technology sectors such as health care, communications, energy and electronics are manufactured from

Publications

Design of Control Systems with Multiple Memoryless Nonlinearities for Inputs Restricted in Magnitude and Slope

February 6, 2024

Author(s)

Van Sy Mai, Suchin Arunsawatwong, Tadchanon Chuman

This paper develops a methodology for designing a control system composed of a linear time-invariant system interconnecting with multiple decoupled time

In-Process Thermography of Metal Additive Manufacturing Processes

June 30, 2023

Author(s)

Brandon Lane, David Deisenroth

BUILDING A DIGITAL TWIN OF AN AUTOMATED ROBOT WORKCELL

May 26, 2023

Author(s)

Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh

Building a digital twin of a manufacturing system can positively impact its performance with respect to productivity, energy consumption, product quality, and

Scheduling for Time-critical Applications Utilizing TCP in Software-based 802.1Qbv Wireless TSN

April 28, 2023

Author(s)

Rick Candell, Karl Montgomery, Mohamed Hany, Susruth Sudhakaran, Dave Cavalcanti

Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is emerging as a viable means to achieving deterministic quality of service (QoS) communications within mission critical

Software

SimPROCESD

October 1, 2022

SimPROCESD is a discrete event simulation package written in Python that is designed to model the behavior of discrete manufacturing systems. Specifically, it

Simantha - Simulation for Manufacturing

Simantha is a discrete event simulation package written in Python that is designed to model the behavior of discrete manufacturing systems. Specifically, it