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On January 15, 2025, NIST held its 52 nd Annual Awards Ceremony in Gaithersburg Maryland, and Boulder, Colorado. At this celebratory event, several NIST Smart...
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The Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), part of the Manufacturing USA network, and the National Institute of Standards and...
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NIST Industrial Wireless Systems Research Lead Dr. Richard (Rick) Candell participated in the kick-off meeting for the ASTM F45.04 System Communication and...
At the 50 th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society ( IECON 2024 ), Dr. Richard (Rick) Candell presented a collaborative effort between...
At the 50 th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society ( IECON 2024 ) in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Richard (Rick) Candell, Principal...
In October 2024, NIST Researcher Rosemary Astheimer presented at the 2024 Women in Manufacturing Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. The Summit, attended by over 2...
A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), University of Southern Mississippi, Arizona State University, Rensselaer...
In celebration of Manufacturing Day (MFG Day), the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the launch of...
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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made a cooperative agreement award to operate a Manufacturing...
The NIST Industrial Wireless Systems team held an industry meeting on September 12, 2024, to facilitate discussions on “Advanced Technologies and Use Cases for...
NIST Industrial Wireless Systems team member Mohamed Kashef (Hany) presented on real-time and mission-critical wireless systems in an invited panel session at...
Karl Montgomery and Rick Candell of the NIST Industrial Wireless Team have produced a report titled “A Characterization of OFDMA Uplink Activation for...
NIST has released its latest software version of SimPROCESD v0.3.0, or Simulated-Production Resource for Operations and Conditions Evaluation to Support...
Planning for the 2025 MBE & QIF Summit at MxD in Chicago on April 15-17, 2025, is underway. NIST and the Digital Metrology Standards Consortium will organize...
From antibiotics to insulin, there have been shortages of many lifesaving drugs in recent years, requiring doctors and patients to adapt treatment plans. But...
Rick Candell of the NIST Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL) presented research findings at the International Conference on Advance Intelligent...
A recently released NIST Advanced Manufacturing Series publication AMS 300-12 “ Research Results and Recommendations for Universally Unique Identifiers in...
Every summer, NIST hosts summer students in its Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program and Summer High School Intern Program (SHIP) to work in...