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Conferences

Design-for-Cost An Approach for Distributed Manufacturing Cost Estimation

September 2, 2019

Author(s)

Minchul Lee, Boonserm Kulvatunyou

Researches have shown that design changes cost more in later stages of product development. Therefore, companies adopt Design-for-X methods to optimize product

Integrated Operations Management for Distributed Manufacturing

August 28, 2019

Author(s)

Timothy A. Sprock, Michael E. Sharp, William Z. Bernstein, Michael P. Brundage, Moneer M. Helu, Thomas D. Hedberg

In traditional manufacturing operations management systems, the four pillars of ISA-95 (production, quality, maintenance, inventory) are each implemented as

Securing, Authenticating, and Visualizing Data-Links for Manufacturing Enterprises

August 27, 2019

Author(s)

William Z. Bernstein, Sylvere I. Krima, Laetitia V. Monnier, Mehdi Shahid

We introduce a prototype implementation of the Securing and Authenticating Data-Links (SADL) Interface, which interacts with a manufacturing handle registry to

Advanced Sensor and Target Development to Support Robot Accuracy Degradation Assessment

August 26, 2019

Author(s)

Guixiu Qiao

This paper presents a vision-based 6 degree of freedom (DOF) measurement system that can measure robot dynamic motions in real-time. A motorized target is

Using Semantic Fluency Models Improves Network Reconstruction Accuracy of Tacit Engineering Knowledge

August 23, 2019

Author(s)

Thurston B. Sexton, Mark Fuge

Human- or expert-generated records that describe the behavior of engineered systems over a period of time can be useful for statistical learning techniques like

Measuring Water Flow Rate in a Flexible Fire Hose using an Accelerometer

August 21, 2019

Author(s)

Christopher U. Brown, Gregory W. Vogl, Wai Cheong Tam

A SUPPLY CHAIN REFERENCE ONTOLOGY BASED ON BASIC FORMAL ONTOLOGY

August 19, 2019

Author(s)

Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Farhad Ameri

Several ontologies have been introduced in the domain of supply chain over the past decade with the promise of enabling a true supply chain interoperability.

A Standardized Representation of Convolutional Neural Networks for Reliable Deployment of Machine Learning Models in the Manufacturing Industry

August 18, 2019

Author(s)

Max K. Ferguson, Seongwoon Jeong, Kincho H. Law, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Svetlana Levitan, Jena Tridivesh, Yung-Tsun T. Lee

The use of deep convolutional neural networks is becoming increasingly popular in the engineering and manufacturing sectors. However, managing the distribution

A Review Of Machine Learning Applications In Additive Manufacturing

August 18, 2019

Author(s)

Saadia A. Razvi, Shaw C. Feng, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Paul W. Witherell

Variability in product quality continues to pose a major barrier to the widespread application of additive manufacturing (AM) processes in production

TOWARDS EFFICIENT THERMAL SIMULATION OF POWDER BED FUSION ON PATH LEVEL

August 15, 2019

Author(s)

Paul W. Witherell

As a widely used additive manufacturing (AM) technology to produce metallic parts, powder bed fusion (PBF) is driven by a moving heat source. Thermal simulation

Perceptions of Smart Home Privacy and Security Responsibility, Concerns, and Mitigations

August 11, 2019

Author(s)

Julie M. Haney, Susanne M. Furman, Mary F. Theofanos, Yasemin Acar Fahl

Smart home devices are increasingly being used by nontechnical users who have little understanding of the technology, including privacy and security

SCAP Composer: A DITA Open Toolkit Plug-in for Packaging Security Content

August 9, 2019

Author(s)

Joshua Lubell

The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) schema for source data stream collections standardizes the requirements for packaging Extensible Markup Language

A cascaded interface to connect quantum memory, quantum computing and quantum transmission frequencies

August 8, 2019

Author(s)

Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang

We implement a cascaded interface connecting three essential frequencies for quantum communications including 1540-nm for long-distance transmission, 895-nm for

Measuring Temperature Distribution in Steel-Concrete Composite Slabs Subjected to Fire Using Brillouin Scattering Based Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors

August 7, 2019

Author(s)

Yi Bao, Matthew S. Hoehler, Christopher M. Smith, Matthew F. Bundy, Genda Chen

This study investigates temperature distributions in steel-concrete composite slabs subjected to fire using distributed fiber optic sensors. Several 1.2 m x 0.9

A Workflow for Imaging 2D Materials using 4D STEM-in-SEM

August 4, 2019

Author(s)

Benjamin W. Caplins, Ryan M. White, Jason D. Holm, Robert R. Keller

Security Awareness in Action: A Case Study

July 29, 2019

Author(s)

Julie M. Haney, Wayne Lutters

Towards Operational Use of Unit Manufacturing Process Models

July 25, 2019

Author(s)

Amogh Kulkarni, William Z. Bernstein, David Lechevalier, Daniel Balasubramanian, Gabor Karsai, Peter O. Denno

Unit Manufacturing Processes (UMP) are models that capture succinct definitions of individual manufacturing steps in a manufacturing system. They are used to

WHERE DO WE START? GUIDANCE FOR TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION IN MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT FOR MANUFACTURING

July 23, 2019

Author(s)

Michael P. Brundage, Thurston B. Sexton, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Katherine C. Morris, Jorge Arinez, Farhad Ameri, Jun Ni, Guoxian Xiao

Recent efforts in Smart Manufacturing (SM) have proven quite effective at elucidating system behavior using sensing systems, communications and computational

Analysis of Automatic through Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles (A-UGVs) Towards Performance Standards

July 18, 2019

Author(s)

Soocheol Yoon, Roger V. Bostelman

Automatic through Autonomous - Unmanned Ground Vehicles (A-UGVs), as termed by ASTM F45 for driverless industrial vehicles, have much potential for use in

Quantifying Macroeconomic Resilience Dividends in Cedar Rapids

July 17, 2019

Author(s)

Juan F. Fung, Jennifer F. Helgeson, Cheyney M. O'Fallon, David H. Webb, Harvey Cutler

Cedar Rapids, Iowa offers a unique case study in planning for increased resilience. In 2008, Cedar Rapids experienced severe flooding. Rather than simply

Facilitating Large-Scale Data Collection by Synthesizing Remote Sensing, GIS, and Machine Learning

July 14, 2019

Author(s)

Patrick S. Crawford, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Andrew Graettinger

Post-disaster studies are critical for measuring impact to communities, from physical infrastructure performance and vulnerabilities, to interdependencies with

Constant-Round Group Key Exchange from the Ring-LWE Assumption

July 14, 2019

Author(s)

Daniel C. Apon, Dana Dachman-Soled, Huijing Gong, Jonathan Katz

Group key-exchange protocols allow a set of N parties to agree on a shared, secret key by communicating over a public network. A number of solutions to this

Wireless Channel Model Development Across the Product Life Cycle

July 12, 2019

Author(s)

David Michelson, Camillo A. Gentile, Nada T. Golmie, Jeanne T. Quimby, Catherine A. Remley, Ken Gracie, Yvo de Jong

Wireless channel models play a critical role at all stages of the product life cycle, from standards development to network deployment. However, the distinctive

RTL-PSC: Automated Power Side-Channel Leakage Assessment at Register-Transfer Level

July 11, 2019

Author(s)

Miao (Tony) He, Jungmin Park, Adib Nahiyan, Apostol T. Vassilev, Yier Jin, Mark Tehranipoor

Power side-channel attacks (SCAs) have become a major concern to the security community due to their non- invasive feature, low-cost, and effectiveness in

From the Beginnings of Artificial Cold to Climate-Friendly Fluids; Evolution of Refrigerants Application

July 11, 2019

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski

The presentation will discuss the application of refrigerants starting from the beginnings of artificial cold in the era of industrial revolution to the

Machine Learning in a Quality Managed RF Measurement Workflow

July 7, 2019

Author(s)

Aric W. Sanders, John Bass, Arpita Bhutani, Mary A. Ho, James C. Booth

Advances in artificial intelligence, or more specifically machine learning, have made it possible for computers to recognize patterns as well or better than

Reflectance data set and variability study for human skin reflectance

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Catherine C. Cooksey, David W. Allen, Benjamin K. Tsai

The optical properties of human skin have been of interest to researchers for some time. Their interest is based on a need to know for a variety of different

SIS Contagion Avoidance on a Network Growing by Preferential Attachment

June 30, 2019

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux, Vladimir V. Marbukh

The economic and convenience benefits of interconnectivity drive the current explosive growth in networked systems. However, as recent catastrophic contagious

Non Nulling Measurements of Flue Gas Flows in a Coal-Fired Power Plant Stack

June 28, 2019

Author(s)

Aaron N. Johnson, Iosif I. Shinder, Bernard J. Filla, Joey T. Boyd, Rodney A. Bryant, Michael R. Moldover

Exhaust flows from coal-fired stacks are determined by measuring the flue gas velocity at prescribed points in the stack cross section. During the last 30+

Selecting Building Characteristics to Predict Seismic Retrofit Costs of a Building Portfolio

June 26, 2019

Author(s)

Juan F. Fung, Siamak Sattar, David T. Butry, Steven L. McCabe

An accurate yet simple estimate of the retrofit cost plays an important role in the decision-making process of retrofitting existing buildings. Fung et al.