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Nehika Mathur sits at a workstation with multiple computer monitors.

Spotlight: Industrial Engineer Nehika Mathur’s Journey Into the Circular Economy

April 19, 2023

Sustainability is easier said than done. NIST industrial engineer Nehika Mathur learned this lesson with an eye-opening experience that spurred an early-career

$Diagram shows X-rays diffraction during 3D printing, with colorized microscopic image showing the orientation of different grains within the material.$

By Cracking a Metal 3D-Printing Conundrum, Researchers Propel the Technology Toward Widespread Application

March 20, 2023

Gaps in our understanding of what happens within metal during the process have made results inconsistent. But a new breakthrough could grant an unprecedented

Spotlight: Toot, Toot! NIST Innovation in 3D Printing Takes a Familiar Form for the Industry

February 13, 2023

Do you know Benchy the Boat? The 3D-printing design is helping NIST researchers make waves with a technique called vat photopolymerization.

Side-by-side micrographs show elongated grains inside 3D-printed stainless steel.

Researchers Uncover How to 3D-Print One of the Strongest Stainless Steels

September 22, 2022

High-energy X-rays lit a path forward.

NIST Awards Funding for Educational Programs on a Circular Economy to Reduce Plastic Waste

September 20, 2022

Five universities have each been awarded $500,000 to develop new curricula for students who are interested in helping to solve the growing problem of plastic

Your Clothes Can Have an Afterlife

May 9, 2022

Only about 15% of used clothes and other textiles in the United States get reused or recycled. The other 85% head straight to the landfill or incinerator. This

The three categories of standards (Management, Goal Setting, and Measurement) related to SASB discussed in Escoto et al. (2022).

Becoming sustainable can be good for business too

March 2, 2022

Sustainability is becoming a selling point for many customers, and small and medium manufacturers (SMMs) up and down supply chains are being pushed to address

University of Texas at Arlington – TMAC Wins the 2020 TEEA Pollution Prevention Award

November 8, 2021

The University of Texas at Arlington’s TMAC (formerly the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) center has served as

A Proclamation on National Manufacturing Day, 2021

September 30, 2021

On National Manufacturing Day, we celebrate all that is made in America and recognize the importance of our Nation’s manufacturers to every aspect of our lives

Potential Cost Savings as US Manufacturers Spend Billions on Machinery Maintenance

June 24, 2021

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

NEW RELEASE: Guide to Sustainable Investment Analysis

March 24, 2021

NIST’s Applied Economic Office released a “ Guide for Environmentally Sustainable Investment Analysis ” based on ASTM E3200 . This guide presents techniques for

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

Inadequate Modeling Data Costs Billions to US Manufacturers

February 12, 2020

Modeling data can reduce redundant design and production activities which include an estimated $8.4 billion spent on engineers answering questions and creating

Manufacturing GDP Returns to Pre-Recession Levels, Employment Remains Down 10 %

January 24, 2020

Each year, the NIST Applied Economics Office assembles a report that examines public data on US manufacturing. The most recent report identified that US

New NIST Tool for Estimating Manufacturing Industry Costs (Beta version)

January 24, 2020

It might seem that estimating manufacturing industry costs (e.g., total machinery maintenance costs for all manufacturers) would be easy and have a great deal

New Tool to Account for Uncertainty

January 20, 2020

Cost examinations often run into the challenge of data uncertainty, where variables in the calculation (e.g., price of gasoline) will fluctuate over the study

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

EL’s Shaw Feng Leads Standardization for Key Performance Indicators for Assessing Manufacturing Sustainability Performance

August 4, 2017

ASTM International’s committee on sustainability ( E60 ) has developed a new guide that will help companies set reasonable, realistic operational objectives for

Sustainable manufacturing