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Projects/Programs

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Prognostics, Health Management, and Control (PHMC)

Ongoing
Objective: Deliver methods, protocols, and tools for robust sensing, diagnostics, prognostics, and control that enable manufacturers to respond to planned (e.g., scheduled change-overs, new productivity targets) and un-planned (e.g., faults, failures) performance changes thereby enhancing the

Properties of Sustainable Fresh Concrete Project

Completed
Objective - Provide the industry with measurement science tools to predict whether a concrete can be pumped, with SRMs (Standard Reference Materials) to calibrate concrete rheometers and with tools for quality control in the field. What is the new technical idea? Fresh concrete is intended a

Qualification for Additive Manufacturing Materials, Processes, and Parts

Completed
Objective: Develop test methods and protocols, provide reference data, and establish requirements to reduce the cost and time to qualify AM materials, processes, and parts. Technical Idea: Qualification of AM materials, processes, and parts is critical to enabling the AM industry to crack into the

Qualification for AM Feedstocks, Machines and Processes

Completed
Objective - To develop, utilize, and analyze test methods and protocols for characterizing the feedstocks, machines, and processes in metal-based additive manufacturing to enable optimum usage and to reduce the cost and time needed for qualification. What is the Technical Idea? Qualification of AM

Real-Time Monitoring and Control of Additive Manufacturing Processes

Completed
Objective: Develop process metrology, in-process sensing methods, and real-time process control approaches to maximize part quality and production throughput in Additive Manufacturing (AM). Technical Idea: Additively manufactured metal parts can have many quality issues, such as undesired pores or

Reliable, High Performance Industrial Wireless Systems: Wi-Fi and TSN

Ongoing
Through collaboration with industry and academia, we will continue to develop model architectures for high-priority industrial use cases that include mobile robotic and collaborative platforms. We will continue to select use cases based on industry input and our independent research. In this project

Reliable, High Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

Completed
With the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart Manufacturing Systems provide a vision of future manufacturing that incorporate highly dynamic physical systems, robust and responsive communications systems, and computing paradigms to maximize efficiency, enable mobility

Repair Materials Project

Completed
Objective - Develop the measurement science tools (metrologies, standards, and guidance documents) for quantitatively evaluating the critical material properties and ensuring the desired field performance of repair materials for our nation's concrete infrastructure. What is the new technical idea

Robotic Systems Interoperability and Integration

Completed
Objective: Enable manufacturers to quickly and easily put together robotic assembly systems with human-like capabilities using interoperable components, by delivering an analysis, information model, protocol, reference implementation, test methods, and tools. Technical Idea: Making it easier for

Robotic Systems for Smart Manufacturing Program

Completed
Due to their inherent flexibility and reusability, robotic systems are an essential tool in strengthening U. S. manufacturing competitiveness by enabling dramatically greater responsiveness and innovation. To attain these gains, robotic systems need to be highly-capable, perceptive, dexterous, and

Service-Oriented Architectures for Smart Manufacturing Project

Ongoing
Objective: Improve the performance of smart manufacturing systems by developing standards, reference models, and software tools that enable the application of service-based integration technologies to smart manufacturing systems. Technical Idea: Manufacturers are increasingly using the inherent

Smart Infrastructure and Manufacturing

Ongoing
The U.S. economy relies on communications-enabled infrastructure and manufacturing for its fundamental operations as a society. The Internet of Things drives how we work, play, and live. From smart manufacturing systems to smart grid, intelligent vehicles, thriving communities, smart homes, and

Smart Manufacturing Operations Planning and Control Program

Completed
The Smart Manufacturing Operations Planning and Control Program will enhance U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by facilitating the adoption of smart manufacturing systems (fully-integrated, collaborative manufacturing systems that respond in real time to meet changing demands and

Smart Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis Program

Ongoing
Smart Manufacturing has the potential to fundamentally change how products are designed, manufactured, supplied, used, remanufactured and eventually retired. Current smart manufacturing implementations are mostly at the plant level, and use information technology, sensor networks, computerized

Standards Development to Ensure Reliable Breath Analysis in the Field

Ongoing
Numerous volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have been identified in human breath. These compounds can be produced by the body or by organisms in the body (e.g., bacteria or viruses) and provide a non-invasive window into human health. Inexpensive point-of-care devices are being developed to diagnose

Strain Measurement for Semiconductor Devices and Packages

Ongoing
Strain is a critical parameter that influences both electrical and mechanical failures of devices, however, measuring strain in complex 3D geometries and vanishingly small feature sizes remains a challenge for manufacturers. Data provided by strain measurements can be used to validate computational

Structural Metrology of Advanced Manufacturing Processes

Ongoing
Understanding material structures in advanced manufacturing is crucial because it enables precise control over material properties, leading to improved performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in production processes. However, this understanding poses many challenges, such as the

Sub-nanoscale electron microscopy of complex nanostructures

Ongoing
The properties of advance materials are becoming ever more reliant on the ability to manipulate their chemistry and structure at very fine length scales. For example, the relevant feature sizes in state-of-the-art transistors continue to decrease, even as the complexity of the architectures employed

Supply Chain Traceability for Agri-Food Manufacturing

Completed
Objective - Develop and deploy new standards, tools, and guidelines for traceability and cybersecurity that increase trust among participants and customers of agri-food manufacturing supply chains. What is the technical idea? The new technical idea is to develop the measurement science basis for the

Systems Analysis Integration

Ongoing
Purpose & Goal The purpose of the SAI Project is to reduce redundant and inconsistent information about systems and their analysis across the multiple engineering disciplines involved. Redundant and inconsistent information exists between: Systems and analysis models: discipline-specific analysis

Systems Analysis Integration for Smart Manufacturing Operations

Completed
Objective: Develop methods and protocols to facilitate analysis of smart manufacturing operations, by enabling efficient integration of smart manufacturing systems models and engineering analysis models. Technical Idea: Smart manufacturing system operations are difficult to manage because

Systems Integration for Additive Manufacturing

Ongoing
Objective: Deliver an information systems architecture, including metrics, information models, and validation methods to shorten the design-to-product cycle time in additive manufacturing (AM). Technical Idea: AM adopters are increasingly facing many of the challenges faced by early computer-aided

U.S. TAG for ISO/TC276: Biotechnology

Ongoing
Get involved: Interested U.S. Stakeholders may participate in the US TAG at no cost. Membership provides access to all ISO/TC 276 and US TAG documents, including standards under development. Please click here to join. Contribute to standards development: Please click here to review, submit comment