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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

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

Extended Digital Thread

Ongoing
OBJECTIVE: To deliver standards, methods, and tools that improve smart manufacturing efficiency, agility, and reliability, by increasing the quality of information representations across more of the product lifecycle, including design, production, and use of resulting products. WHAT IS THE TECHNICAL

Knowledge Extraction and Application

Completed
Objective - To develop and deploy advances in standards, measurement science, and software tools using actionable, computable, domain knowledge and data in operations and logistics to improve the reliability, quality, and efficiency of advanced manufacturing systems. What is the technical idea? The

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

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