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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

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

Qualification for AM Feedstocks, Machines and Processes

Completed
Objective - To develop, utilize, and analyze test methods and protocols for characterizing the feedstocks, machines, and processes in metal-based additive manufacturing to enable optimum usage and to reduce the cost and time needed for qualification. What is the Technical Idea? Qualification of AM

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
QIF PMI Report screenshot

QIF PMI Report Software

The QIF PMI Report (QPR) software generates a spreadsheet from a QIF file containing Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI). "The Quality Information

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)

Awards