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Manufacturing

Product data

News and Updates

2025 MBE & QIF Summit

MBE & QIF Summit 2025

The 2025 MBE Summit was hosted at MxD headquarters in Chicago, IL, April 15 - 18. NIST's Rosemary Astheimer organized technical content in conjunction with the
2025 MBE & QIF Summit

2025 MBE & QIF Summit Update

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The 2025 MBE & QIF Summit event is returning to MxD (Manufacturing x Digital) headquarters in Chicago, IL, April 15 - 17, 2025. The 2025 event will bring the

Events

Projects and Programs

Advanced Informatics and Artificial Intelligence for Additive Manufacturing

Ongoing
Objective To develop and deploy the metrics, models, and best practices for implementing and adopting advanced informatics (including product definition, digital twins, machine learning and advanced analytics) and artificial intelligence to enhance additive manufacturing design, process planning

Data Management and Fusion for AM Industrialization

Ongoing
Objective To develop methods, models, software tools, open data and best practices for data integration, management, and fusion in additive manufacturing to accelerate AM Industrialization. Technical Idea Our technical idea is to enable an integrated, streamlined and effective AM development and

Digital Thread for Manufacturing

Ongoing
Purpose and Goals This project will provide research advances in product-definition standardization, conformance testing, and cybersecurity of data assets. Digital thread standards capabilities and infrastructure - Smart connected manufacturing requires the effective communication of the product

Material Qualification

Ongoing
Objective To develop, utilize, and analyze methods of characterizing the precursor materials in additive manufacturing in both virgin and recycled states with the goal of advancing measurement science to benefit the AM community. The components of principal interest will include the rheological

Publications

A Systems-Based Framework for Product Circularity Assessment

Author(s)
Gisele Bortolaz Guedes, Junwon Ko, Fazleena Badurdeen, I.S. Jawahir, Katherine Morris, Vincenzo Ferrero, Ardeshir Mashhadi, Ryan Bradley
One of the key aspects of Circular Economy (CE), particularly when focusing on the product level, lies in its emphasis on designing products to facilitate the

Transitioning Towards Circular Consumer Electronics Products

Author(s)
Junwon Ko, Gisele Bortolaz Guedes, Fazleena Badurdeen, I.S. Jawahir, Katherine Morris, Vincenzo Ferrero
The adoption of Circular Economy (CE) practices is continuing to gain momentum, driven by its potential to promote efficient use of resources, maximize the

Software

NIST STEP File Viewer screenshot

STEP File Analyzer and Viewer

The free STEP File Viewer supports parts, assemblies, dimensions, tolerances, and more. The Analyzer generates a spreadsheet of all entity and attribute
CMS Evaluation Flowchart

SimPROCESD

SimPROCESD (or Simulated-Production Resource for Operations & Conditions Evaluations to Support Decision-making) is a discrete-event simulation package written

STEP to X3D Translator

The NIST STEP to X3D Translator (STP2X3D) is an open-source software that translates a STEP (ISO 10303) Part 21 file (.stp or .step) to an X3D (ISO/IEC 19776)

STEP Class Library (SCL)

The NIST STEP Class Library (SCL) is a set of C++ class libraries which are capable of representing information conforming to the EXPRESS (ISO 10303-11) data

Awards

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