Factory operations planning & control

News and Updates

The three categories of standards (Management, Goal Setting, and Measurement) related to SASB discussed in Escoto et al. (2022).

Becoming sustainable can be good for business too

March 2, 2022

Sustainability is becoming a selling point for many customers, and small and medium manufacturers (SMMs) up and down supply chains are being pushed to address

NIST Researchers Receive Award for Manufacturing Cybersecurity Guidelines, Achieving Wider Use

February 15, 2022

On January 12, 2022, NIST presented the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal to Keith Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, and Jeffrey

Cell towers broadcast signals through two trees, one of which has green leaves while the other is bare. A cellphone behind the greenery indicates a poorer signal than the phone behind the bare tree.

NIST Helps Next-Generation Cell Technology See Past the Greenery

January 4, 2022

As 5G technology gets fully implemented over the next several years, cellphones and other wireless tech will grow more powerful with increased data flow and

Projects and Programs

Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

Completed

Develop robust requirements, system models, recommended architectures, and guidelines for the integration of trustworthy wireless systems within factory work

The NIST millimeter-wave extrapolation range being prepared for antenna measurements.

Antenna Metrology

Ongoing

Antennas are the eyes, ears and voices of everything from cell phones to interplanetary spacecraft. The Antenna Metrology Program carries on PML's pioneering

Wireless Systems Metrology

Ongoing

Imagine how much safer a fire fighter's job would be if it were possible for a robot to navigate in a burning building and locate those in need of assistance

Publications

Model of Operational Control of Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS)

July 8, 2021

Author(s)

Timothy A. Sprock, Conrad Bock

Operations management systems manage flows of work, resources, and information through production and logistics systems, ensuring the correct and efficient

Online Improvement of Condition-based Maintenance Policy via Monte Carlo Tree Search

June 30, 2021

Author(s)

Michael Hoffman, Eunhye Song, Michael Brundage

Often in manufacturing systems scenarios arise where the demand for maintenance exceeds the capacity of maintenance resources. This leads to the problem of

Towards a Digital Depot to Support Sustainable ManufacturingDuring Crisis Response

June 23, 2021

Author(s)

KC Morris, Nancy Diaz-Elsayed, Julius Schoop

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed new challenges to maintaining sustainability in our manufacturing operations. With such high variability in demand for

Discovering Critical KPI Factors from Natural Language in Maintenance Work Orders

April 22, 2021

Author(s)

Michael Sharp, Michael Brundage, Thurston Sexton, Fnu Madhusudanan Navinchandran

Optimizing maintenance practices is a continuous process that must take into account the evolving state of the equipment, resources, workers, and more. To help

Factory operations planning & control

News and Updates

Becoming sustainable can be good for business too

NIST Researchers Receive Award for Manufacturing Cybersecurity Guidelines, Achieving Wider Use

NIST Helps Next-Generation Cell Technology See Past the Greenery

Projects and Programs

Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

Antenna Metrology

Wireless Systems Metrology

Publications

Model of Operational Control of Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS)

Online Improvement of Condition-based Maintenance Policy via Monte Carlo Tree Search

Towards a Digital Depot to Support Sustainable ManufacturingDuring Crisis Response

Discovering Critical KPI Factors from Natural Language in Maintenance Work Orders

Software

Smart Investment Tool

Smart Manufacturing Systems Readiness Level (SMSRL) Tool

MESA Manufacturing Operation Management Maturity Assessment Tool

Factory Design and Improvement (FDI) Activity Model