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Engineering Laboratory

Systems Integration Division

Blogs and Videos

Below our staff describe some key aspects of our work through blogs and videos.

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Blogs

Credit: nostal6ie/Shutterstock	We Need a Second Earth to Support Our Current Consumption. We Can Do Better if We Think ‘Circular.’ April 19, 2023 Nehika Mathur If we’re going to secure a sustainable future on the only planet we have to live on, we must transition to a circular economy. The circular economy aims to reduce our reliance on virgin ecological resources by keeping materials in use indefinitely.
Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST	Teaching Computers to Read ‘Industry Lingo’ — Technical vs. Natural Language Processing October 26, 2022 Michael Sharp Industry and businesses have long been known to have their own specialized jargon. Technical language processing, or TLP, involves using computers for capturing, understanding and translating jargon for other users.
Credit: EtiAmmos/shutterstock.com	Sustainable Manufacturing Is Smart Manufacturing October 2, 2020 KC Morris As our society has evolved, we have learned better ways to manufacture and are able to create an amazing variety of products. But providing these goods is not without side effects to the environment, and care is needed to manage the impacts of our production systems.
Credit: Phonlamai Photo/shutterstock.com	A.I. for Smarter Factories: The World of Industrial Artificial Intelligence September 2, 2020 Michael Sharp Computer assistants and AIs perform an ever-growing range of tasks that are broadly intended to improve our quality of life. This extends to industry as well.
Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST	Industrial XR: Fulfilling Human Potential in Smart Factories July 14, 2020 Bill Bernstein, Teodor Vernica How do we present the right information at the right time about machines to people? And, how can we do it all safely?
	Mixing and Matching Standards to Ease AR Integration within Factories April 14, 2020 Bill Bernstein Today, integrating industrial Augmented Reality (AR) to visualize manufacturing models is still largely a pipedream. Using standards could ease the challenges of integration, but experience with tying them all together in a practical solution is severely lacking.
Credit: Numstocker/shutterstock.com	Manufacturing Standards for Biopharmaceuticals January 28, 2020 Sheng Lin-Gibson, Vijay Srinivasan Biopharmaceuticals are manufactured from living organisms or contain living organisms that have been genetically engineered to prevent or treat diseases. Read a conversation with SID's division chief and a member of the Material Measurement Lab on NIST's role in this growing field.
Credit: Mark Esser/NIST	When a Manufacturer Asks ‘How Do We Get Smart?’ October 4, 2019 Mike Brundage Manufacturers are joining the "smart manufacturing" movement, but many don't know where to start.
Credit: Natasha Hanacek/NIST	Getting Food on Our Tables From the U.S. and Around the World, Safely and Less Wastefully November 13, 2019 Nenad Ivezic Moving food from farm to table nowadays is not without its challenges, but there are some outstanding developments that are starting to help address these safety and waste issues.
Credit: mcmurryjulie	Working Towards an Industrial Ontology Foundry to Facilitate Interoperability March 16, 2017 KC Morris, Serm Kulvatunyou Generally, ontologies serve the purpose of mediating the semantics of information between different applications. NIST created a foundry to create and store community-vetted ontologies suitable for industrial needs.
Photo credit: CC BY 2.0	The Smart Factory Shifts from Reactive to Predictive – An ASME and NIST Workshop November 15, 2017 Mike Brundage, Brian Weiss The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, hosted a “Workshop on Advanced Monitoring, Diagnostic, and Prognostic Technologies”, on June 8-9, 2017, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.
	Smart Manufacturing Isn’t So Smart Without Standards March 2, 2016 KC Morris, Simon Frechette, Yan Lu The next generation of manufacturing technologies must enhance the manufacturer’s ability to respond to information quickly and efficiently, but they in turn rely on the effective information flow and system responsiveness that only standards can provide across multiple vendor solutions in the product value chain.