Factory operations planning & control

News and Updates

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

A Smart Use for Doping: Implanted Atoms Create Unique Electrical IDs That Distinguish Bona Fide Devices From Forgeries

September 16, 2021

If someone sells you a luxury handbag from Paris, France, but it turns out be a forgery from Paris, Texas, the counterfeit item might cost you a thousand bucks

Woman wearing a mask checking inventory a manufacturing facility

NIST Awards $475,000 to the MEP Center in Texas

April 1, 2021

The U.S Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has made one cooperative agreement

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

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

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

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

NIST Helps Next-Generation Cell Technology See Past the Greenery

A Smart Use for Doping: Implanted Atoms Create Unique Electrical IDs That Distinguish Bona Fide Devices From Forgeries

NIST Awards $475,000 to the MEP Center in Texas

Projects and Programs

Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

Wireless Systems Metrology

Antenna 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

MESA Manufacturing Operation Management Maturity Assessment Tool

Smart Manufacturing Systems Readiness Level (SMSRL) Tool

Factory Design and Improvement (FDI) Activity Model