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5 Organizations Win U.S. Department of Commerce’s 2020 Baldrige Awards for Performance Excellence

November 24, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a historic year for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award — the nation’s only presidential award for organizational performance

2020 Baldrige Award Judges Select Nine U.S. Organizations for First-Ever Virtual Site Visits

August 24, 2020

Nine U.S. organizations were recently selected to receive fall site visits, the final stage of the evaluation process for the 2020 Malcolm Baldrige National

NIST Names Mojdeh Bahar as Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services

May 22, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mojdeh

Twenty Organizations Will Be Evaluated for 2020 Baldrige Award

May 12, 2020

Twenty organizations have submitted applications for the 2020 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. They include 11 health care organizations, 6 nonprofit

Publications

Effects of powder recycling on stainless steel powder and built material properties in metal powder bed fusion processes

February 27, 2017

Author(s)

Gregor Jacob, Christopher U. Brown, M A. Donmez, Stephanie S. Watson

A series of 11 identical laser based powder bed fusion (PBF) builds were completed with varying amounts of virgin and recycled nitrogen gas atomized S17-4 PH

Network Charter: Manufacturing USA

December 15, 2016

Author(s)

Michael F. Molnar

Under the authority of the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 2014, the Secretary of Commerce shall establish the Network for Manufacturing

Considerations for Design and In-Situ Calibration of High Accuracy Length Artifacts for Field Testing of Laser Trackers

March 1, 2015

Author(s)

Aaron Hudlemeyer, Daniel S. Sawyer, Christopher J. Blackburn, Vincent D. Lee, Mark Meuret, Craig M. Shakarji

Interim testing of laser trackers can be problematic due to the lack of high precision, long length artifacts that maintain their calibrated lengths during

A Proposed Interim Check for Field Testing a Laser Trackers 3-D Length Measurement Capability Using a Calibrated Scale Bar as a Reference Artifact

October 1, 2014

Author(s)

Vincent D. Lee, Christopher J. Blackburn, Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Daniel S. Sawyer, Mark Meuret, Aaron Hudlemeyer

This paper describes a proposed interim check for field testing a laser trackers 3-D length measurement capability using a calibrated scale bar as a reference