Advanced Manufacturing Series (NIST AMS)

On the Physical Interpretation of Adjoint Methods for Sensitivity Analysis, Part I: Self-Adjoint Linear Systems

February 25, 2026

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan

Engineers and scientists rely on computational models not just to predict outcomes, but to understand which input parameters most influence those outcomes...

Annual Report on the U.S. Manufacturing Economy: 2025

February 20, 2026

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S...

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chain Management – Opportunities and Challenges, a Workshop Report

February 9, 2026

Author(s)

Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Perawit Charoenwut, Yen Mai

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has progressed significantly and impacted various aspects of our daily life. With its strength in prediction, AI is considered a...

Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing 2023 Workshop Report: Charting the Future of Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing

January 28, 2026

Author(s)

Callie Higgins, Jason Killgore

The 2023 Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA) Workshop convened experts from academia, industry, and government to explore the state-of-the-art...

Generative modeling of additive manufacturing lack-of-fusion defects using three-dimensional adversarial network

January 23, 2026

Author(s)

Mahmudul Hoque, Felix Kim

This paper presents a three-dimensional generative adversarial network (3D-GAN) framework to generate synthetic pore structures representative of lack-of-fusion...

Artificial Intelligence with Open and Scaled Data Sharing in Semiconductor Manufacturing – Workshop Report

November 18, 2025

Author(s)

Sthitie Bom, Jim Davis, Bruce Kramer, Gregory Vogl, Said Jahanmir, Don Ufford

The Workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (NSF award 2334590, "Artificial Intelligence with Open and Scaled Data Sharing in the...

Supply Chain Disruption and Agent-Based Modeling : A Literature Review and Model

September 25, 2025

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Jennifer Helgeson, Ireland Crowther

This report provides a literature review of supply chain disruption and agent-based models. It also develops an agent-based model to examine emergent phenomena...

Digital Twin Lab: Supporting Research and Development, and Standards and Implementations

August 29, 2025

Author(s)

Rishabh Venketesh, Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Matthew Triebe

Digitization in manufacturing is a concept that, while having existed for some time, can now be realized because of advancements in IIoT (Industrial Internet of...

A Fully Registered In-Situ and Ex-Situ Dataset for Metal Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing: Data Processing, Feature Extraction, Registration, and Uncertainties

May 8, 2025

Author(s)

Zhuo Yang, Yan Lu, Ho Yeung, Brandon Lane, Nicole Van Handel

This document details the data registration process for the previously published datasets from Additive Manufacturing Metrology Testbed (AMMT) parts, "Overhang...

China's Manufacturing Innovation Centers: A Benchmarking Report for the Manufacturing USA Network

May 5, 2025

Author(s)

Michael Molnar, Kelley Rogers, Frank Gayle, Susan Ipri-Brown, Mai Tran, Joseph Long, Clifton Ray, Albert Shih, Douglas Thomas

This review of China's Manufacturing Innovation Centers (MICs) describes the status of the country's flagship manufacturing innovation program. At least 33 MICs...

Laser Beam Metrology for AM-Bench 2022: Approaches, Results, and Lessons Learned

April 1, 2025

Author(s)

David Deisenroth, Jordan Weaver, Sergey Mekhontsev, Steven Grantham, Shawn P. Moylan

One of key parameters of additive manufacturing by laser powder bed fusion of metal parts (PBF-LB/M) is the power density distribution (PDD) of the process...

Design and Calibration of the Fundamentals of Laser-Matter Interaction (FLaMI) Powder Bed Fusion Testbed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

February 21, 2025

Author(s)

David Deisenroth, Sergey Mekhontsev, Steven Grantham

The advantages of additive manufacturing of metal components through laser-based powder bed fusion of metals (PBF-LB/M) have been increasingly embraced across a...

X-ray computed tomography flaw phantom development: stepper photolithography and deep reactive ion etching: Fabrication and reference measurements

February 18, 2025

Author(s)

Felix Kim, Sarah Robinson, Nikolai Klimov, John Henry J. Scott

Stepper photolithography combined with deep reactive ion etching was used to generate controlled flaws to assess X-ray computed tomography (XCT) flaw...

Metadata Modeling for Manufacturing Enterprise Integration

January 6, 2025

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, James Jim Wilson, Michael Figura, Josh Ki, David Noller

The continuous digitalization and digital transformation are expanding enterprise information exchange scenarios that span product data, process data sets, and...

The U.S. Plastics Recycling Economy: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities

October 30, 2024

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Joshua D. Kneifel, David Butry

This report builds upon NIST AMS 100-48 (Thomas 2022), which examined the economics of increased circularity in the economy, focusing on the processes, forces...

Economics of Digital Twins: Costs, Benefits, and Economic Decision Making

October 30, 2024

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

This report examines the economics of digital twins in the manufacturing industry, including the costs, benefits, and economic decision to invest in the...

Strategic Plan for the Manufacturing USA Program

October 29, 2024

Author(s)

Robert G. Rudnitsky, Clifton Ray, Said Jahanmir

This document is the triennial strategic plan for the Manufacturing USA Program, as required by the program's authorizing statute. This strategic plan addresses...

Annual Report on the U.S. Manufacturing Economy: 2024

October 25, 2024

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S...

A Guide to the Smart Investment Tools

October 10, 2024

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Joshua D. Kneifel, Purav Parekh

This report serves as a guide to the Smart Investment Tool and Smart Investment Tool Express (SITExpress). These tools aid a user in conducting an investment...

A Reference Activity Model for Additive Manufacturing: Powder Bed Fusion

July 26, 2024

Author(s)

Duncan Gibbons, Paul Witherell

Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Through Effective Additive Manufacturing Data Management

July 24, 2024

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, William Frazier

This report summarizes the results of the workshop entitled "Empowering Small and Medium Size Enterprises Through Effective Additive Manufacturing Data...

Research Results and Recommendations for Universally Unique Identifiers in Product Data Standards

July 16, 2024

Author(s)

Thomas Thurman, Asa Trainer, Allison Barnard Feeney, Rosemary Astheimer, Martin Hardwick, Mikael Hedlind

In the model-based enterprise (MBE) paradigm, enterprises are fueled by the digital thread, an authoritative, integrated information flow that connects all...

Manufacturing USA 2023 Annual Report

April 15, 2024

Author(s)

Zahraha Brunner

Manufacturing USA® is a network of public-private partnerships united to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing through large scale...

Implementation of a Particle Tracking Method to Study Particle Spreading in Powder Bed Fusion Systems

February 8, 2024

Author(s)

Eric Whitenton, Alkan Donmez, Aniruddha Das, Vipin Tondare, Justin Whiting

Additive manufacturing is a rapidly growing and increasingly important set of manufacturing techniques. One of those techniques, powder bed fusion, is often...

Continuous Mobile Manipulator Performance Measurement Data

January 18, 2024

Author(s)

Omar Aboul-Enein, Henry Medeiros, Mili Shah, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Roger Bostelman, Ann Virts

Mobile manipulators, which are robotic systems integrating an automatic or autonomous mobile base with a manipulator, can potentially enhance automation in many...

Powder Spreading Testbed for Studying the Powder Spreading Process in Powder Bed Fusion Machines

November 29, 2023

Author(s)

Justin Whiting, Eric Whitenton, Aniruddha Das, Vipin Tondare, Jason Fox, Michael McGlauflin, Alkan Donmez, Shawn P. Moylan

The spreading of powder is an integral part of powder bed fusion-based additive manufacturing technologies; however, due to the complex nature and the number of...

Annual Report on the U.S. Manufacturing Economy: 2023

November 2, 2023

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S...

A Method for Capturing Thin Multi-Layer Regions of Powder from Powder Bed Fusion Machines

July 31, 2023

Author(s)

Aniruddha Das, Jordan Weaver, Jared Tarr, Shawn P. Moylan

A powder capture capsule has been designed to capture thin regions of powder at multiple heights within a powder bed of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) equipment...

Enabling FAIR Data in Additive Manufacturing to Accelerate Industrialization

July 24, 2023

Author(s)

Shengyen Li, Yan Lu, Kareem Aggour, Peter Coutts, Brennan Harris, Alex Kitt, Afina Lupulescu, Luke Mohr, Mike Vasquez

Additive manufacturing (AM) is an important enabler of Industry 4.0 but there are several hurdles that need to be overcome to fully realize the potential of AM...

Process-Structure-Property Data Alignment for Additive Manufacturing Data Registration

July 17, 2023

Author(s)

Shaw C. Feng, Yan Lu, Albert T. Jones

Melt-pool-monitoring, layer-wise-imaging, microstructure-analysis, and mechanical-property test data are becoming increasingly available during the additive...