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Manufacturing

Process measurement & control

News and Updates

Projects and Programs

Actionable Intelligence and Industrial AI

Industrial Artificial Intelligence Management and Metrology (IAIMM)

Ongoing
IAIMM has identified IAI systems for decision making, planning, and control in manufacturing as a prime candidate for better Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) centered on both use and evaluation. The specific use case of multi-stage manufacturing presents a broad scope of application to

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

Smart Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis Program

Ongoing
Smart Manufacturing has the potential to fundamentally change how products are designed, manufactured, supplied, used, remanufactured and eventually retired. Current smart manufacturing implementations are mostly at the plant level, and use information technology, sensor networks, computerized

Hierarchical Materials

Ongoing
The STG develops the methods and metrology that will lead to the understanding of the structure-property relationships of hierarchical composites in real medical PPE or protective applications, which heretofore has been lacking. This work establishes in situ monitoring of advanced manufacturing

Publications

BUILDING A DIGITAL TWIN OF AN AUTOMATED ROBOT WORKCELL

Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh
Building a digital twin of a manufacturing system can positively impact its performance with respect to productivity, energy consumption, product quality, and

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