Process improvement

News and Updates

Are Condition Monitoring Systems Worth It? NIST Researchers Offer Way to Evaluate

December 1, 2022

Industries may use "condition monitoring systems" (CMS) to monitor machines and enterprises – like production lines – for detrimental or unexpected changes in

No Fib: NIST Unmasks a Superfast Process for Nanoscale Machining

August 23, 2022

Cutting intricate patterns as small as several billionths of a meter deep and wide, the focused ion beam (FIB) is an essential tool for deconstructing and

NIST Researchers Resurrect and Improve a Technique for Detecting Transistor Defects

February 3, 2022

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have revived and improved a once-reliable technique to identify and count defects in

Projects and Programs

Multiscale structure and dynamics in advanced technological materials

Ongoing

This project develops and applies metrologies and standards for characterizing microstructure and dynamics in advanced functional materials of technological

Metrology for Real-Time Monitoring of Additive Manufacturing

Ongoing

Part quality in additive manufacturing (AM) is highly variable due to inadequate dimensional tolerances, surface roughness, and defects, thereby limiting its

Photonic Dosimetry

Ongoing

As part of the NIST on a Chip program, the Photonic Dosimetry project is developing in-situ sub-micrometer ionizing-radiation dosimetry and calorimetry leading

AM Machine and Process Control Methods for Additive Manufacturing

Ongoing

Part quality in additive manufacturing (AM) is highly dependent on the process control, but there is a lack of adequate AM control methods and standards. In

Publications

Reusing and Extending Standards-based Unit Manufacturing Process Models for Characterizing Sustainability Performance

April 1, 2023

Author(s)

Arvind Shankar Raman, KC Morris, Karl R. Haapala

Over the past two decades numerous efforts have characterized manufacturing processes for sustainability performance. These efforts have been pursued primarily

STEP-NC Process Planning for Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing

October 20, 2022

Author(s)

Fahad Milaat, Paul Witherell, Martin Hardwick, Ho Yeung, Vincenzo Ferrero, Laetitia Monnier, Matthew Brown

Powder bed fusion (PBF) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technology that uses high-power beams to fuse powder material into layers of scanned patterns, thus

Forward to Sustainable Manufacturing Processes

October 8, 2022

Author(s)

KC Morris

Forward to new book on Sustainable Manufacturing Processes.

Towards the Physical Reliability of 3D-Integrated Systems: Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopic (BDS) Studies of Material Evolution and Reliability in Integrated Systems

September 30, 2022

Author(s)

Papa Amoah, Joseph J. Kopanski, Yaw S. Obeng, Christopher Sunday, Chukwudi Okoro, Lin You, Dmirty Veksler

In this paper, we present an overview of our current research focus in developing non-destructive metrology for monitoring reliability issues in 3D-integrated

Software

Unit Manufacturing Process (UMP) Builder

January 26, 2018

The Unit Manufacturing Process (UMP) Builder allows researchers to record their UMP models according to the ASTM E3012-16 standard . One of the main drivers

Simantha - Simulation for Manufacturing

Simantha is a discrete event simulation package written in Python that is designed to model the behavior of discrete manufacturing systems. Specifically, it