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Research Suggests Significant Benefits to Investing in Advanced Machinery Maintenance

June 15, 2020

The maintenance of machinery in the manufacturing industry consists of three primary approaches: reactive, preventive, and predictive. Reactive maintenance is

Evidence suggests that the U.S. Loses Hundreds of Billions to Cybercrime, Possibly as much as 1 % to 4 % of GDP Annually

May 27, 2020

Cybercrime puts America’s competitive edge and economic future at risk; however, there is some debate as to the extent that this activity is impacting economic

NIST Economics Hits the Additive Manufacturing Spotlight

July 23, 2019

In late 2014, the Applied Economics Office (AEO) published NIST Special Publication (SP) 1176, “Costs And Cost Effectiveness of Additive Manufacturing.” For

Potential Cost Savings as US Manufacturers Spend Billions on Machinery Maintenance

As discussed in NIST AMS 100-18, the cost of machinery maintenance is not well understood; however, Census data estimates that $50 billion was spent on

Publications

Uncertainties for Machine Tool Modeling

September 30, 2020

Author(s)

Guodong Shao, William Stann

Machine tool models play an important role to support decision-making for machine tool procurement, process planning, and production scheduling in manufacturing

NIST Recommended Practice Guide: Fractography of Ceramics and Glasses, 3rd edition

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

George D. Quinn

Fractography is a powerful but underutilized tool for the analysis of fractured glasses and ceramics, for fractures in the laboratory and for component failures

Standardizing environmental performance evaluation of manufacturing systems through ISO 20140

August 6, 2020

Author(s)

Hitoshi Komoto, William Z. Bernstein, Soonjo Kwon, Fumihiko Kimura

Standards play a critical role in the realization of more sustainable practices in manufacturing systems. This is especially critical considering the trends in

A proposed mapping method for aligning machine execution data to numerical control code

September 23, 2019

Author(s)

Laetitia V. Monnier, William Z. Bernstein, Sebti Foufou

The visions of the digital thread and smart manufacturing have boasted the potential of relating downstream data to upstream decisions in design. However, to