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Manufacturing

Manufacturing systems design & analysis

News and Updates

2025 MBE & QIF Summit

MBE & QIF Summit 2025

The 2025 MBE Summit was hosted at MxD headquarters in Chicago, IL, April 15 - 18. NIST's Rosemary Astheimer organized technical content in conjunction with the

Events

Projects and Programs

Advanced Machines, Monitoring, and Control for AM

Ongoing
Objective To develop, integrate, and implement real-time feedback and other cutting-edge process control techniques using advanced monitoring tools such as high-speed imaging and diffraction for single and multi-laser AM systems. Technical Idea The current methods for AM control predominantly rely
SMcps

Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Foundations

Ongoing
Objective - To provide a common technical and conceptual foundation for CPS and IoT that enables conceptualization, realization and assurance across all domains, including a comprehensive and traceable methodology for meeting all stakeholder concerns throughout any systems engineering process and

Data Analytics for Smart Manufacturing Systems

Ongoing
Objective: Develop standards, software tools, methodologies, and guidelines to enable small and medium enterprises to apply data analytics services to improve decision-making and performance in smart manufacturing systems. Technical Idea: Manufacturers need enhanced decision-support tools that would
2D Material Electronic Test

Electronic Material Characterization

Ongoing
Manufacturing optimized devices that incorporate newly-emerging materials requires predictable performance throughout device lifetimes. Unexpected degradation in device performance, sometimes leading to failure, is often traceable to poor material reliability. Reliability is rooted in the stability

Publications

Building a Digital Twin of a CNC Machine Tool

Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh, Matthew Triebe
Developing digital twins for manufacturing applications is challenging due to insufficient modeling frameworks and standardized procedures. As a result, the

Software

CMS Evaluation Flowchart

SimPROCESD

SimPROCESD (or Simulated-Production Resource for Operations & Conditions Evaluations to Support Decision-making) is a discrete-event simulation package written
Calculator

Smart Investment Tool

This tool calculates metrics for investment analysis documented in NIST Advanced manufacturing Series 200-5. It calculates net present value, internal rate of
CostGuide - Metal Plate

MCG for Supply Chain Statistics

The Manufacturing Cost Guide (MCG) is a tool that estimates industry statistics for the manufacturing supply chain based on economic input-output analysis. It

Tools and Instruments

Awards

SME Fellow

Albert J. Wavering III is the acting deputy director of National Institute of Standards & Technology's Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
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