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Manufacturing

Product data

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Projects and Programs

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

Systems Analysis Integration

Ongoing
Purpose & Goal The purpose of the SAI Project is to reduce redundant and inconsistent information about systems and their analysis across the multiple engineering disciplines involved. Redundant and inconsistent information exists between: Systems and analysis models: discipline-specific analysis

Product Definitions for Smart Manufacturing

Completed
The Product Definitions for Smart Manufacturing project will deliver methods, protocols, and tools for developing, conformance testing, increasing user-awareness, and industrial adoption of product definition standards necessary for the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises. Smart

Additive Manufacturing Part Qualification

Completed
Objective To develop and deploy test methods and protocols, standard test artifacts, exemplar data, data processing tools, and automation tools that create robust post-process measurements and non-destructive testing to enable qualification of AM parts by manufacturers. What is the Problem? To

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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