Manufacturing systems design & analysis

News and Updates

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

NIST: Blockchain Provides Security, Traceability for Smart Manufacturing

February 11, 2019

Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) needed a way to secure smart manufacturing systems using the digital thread, so they

NIST, Partners ‘Cutting the Cord’ (and Wires) from Factory Communication Networks

January 30, 2017

Providing wireless communications in a factory, plant or other industrial environment these days means more than just helping employees talk with each other

Projects and Programs

Systems Integration for Additive Manufacturing

As manufacturers increasingly recognize AM as a viable production alternative, they find themselves facing many new informatics, systems, and systems

Service-Oriented Architectures for Smart Manufacturing Project

Manufacturing will be revolutionized by new sensor, data analysis, and information technologies. In particular, manufacturers are using new service-based

Smart Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis Program

Deliver measurement science, standards and protocols, and tools needed to design and analyze SMS based on a cyber-physical infrastructure for digital and

I++ DME (Dimensional Measurement Equipment)

The I++ (Inspection plus-plus) group is a loose consortium of European automobile manufacturers: Daimler, Audi, BMW, Opel, Volkswagen, Porsche, and Volvo. I++

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

ARES: Automated Risk Estimation in Smart Sensor Environments

August 17, 2020

Author(s)

Athanasios Dimitriadis, Jose L. Flores, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Ioannis Mavridis

Industry 4.0 adoption demands integrability, interoperability, composability, and security. Currently, integrability, interoperability and composability are

Linking Performance Data and Geospatial Information of Manufacturing Assets through Standard Representations

August 16, 2020

Author(s)

Aaron Hanke, Teodor I. Vernica, William Z. Bernstein

Interoperability across emerging visualization modalities, including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), remains a challenge with respect to

An automated workflow for integrating sustainability assessment into parametric part design through standard reference models

August 6, 2020

Author(s)

William Z. Bernstein, Melissa Tensa, Maxwell Praniewicz, Soonjo Kwon, Deverajan Ramanujan

Integrating environmental sustainability assessment into parametric design represents an important opportunity for enabling sustainable product design. However

Software

Smart Investment Tool

June 15, 2020

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

Manufacturing Cost Guide

July 11, 2019

The Manufacturing Cost Guide is a tool that estimates the costs that US manufacturers face and can be used to help gauge the potential returns on manufacturing

MESA Manufacturing Operation Management Maturity Assessment Tool

September 3, 2018

MESA MOM/CMM (Manufacturing Operations Management / Capability Maturity Model) Assessment Tool is a questionnaire-based tool designed to help evaluate maturity

Smart Manufacturing Systems Readiness Level (SMSRL) Tool

September 3, 2018 - March 21, 2019

The Smart Manufacturing Systems Readiness Level (SMSRL) focuses on evaluating the readiness (also can be viewed as maturity) for a factory to undergo

Tools and Instruments

Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed

The Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed is comprised of three major components: Computer-Aided Technologies (CAx) Lab Manufacturing Lab Data

Manufacturing systems design & analysis

News and Updates

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

NIST Economics Hits the Additive Manufacturing Spotlight

NIST: Blockchain Provides Security, Traceability for Smart Manufacturing

NIST, Partners ‘Cutting the Cord’ (and Wires) from Factory Communication Networks

Projects and Programs

Systems Integration for Additive Manufacturing

Service-Oriented Architectures for Smart Manufacturing Project

Smart Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis Program

I++ DME (Dimensional Measurement Equipment)

Publications

Uncertainties for Machine Tool Modeling

ARES: Automated Risk Estimation in Smart Sensor Environments

Linking Performance Data and Geospatial Information of Manufacturing Assets through Standard Representations

An automated workflow for integrating sustainability assessment into parametric part design through standard reference models

Software

Smart Investment Tool

Manufacturing Cost Guide

MESA Manufacturing Operation Management Maturity Assessment Tool

Smart Manufacturing Systems Readiness Level (SMSRL) Tool

Tools and Instruments

Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed

Awards

Michael Brundage Honored by American Society of Mechanical Engineers for Leadership in Manufacturing

SME Fellow

Eswaran Subrahmanian AAAS Fellow