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Mark White, Eric Holterman, Tim Bakker, Larry Maggiano
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing is currently constructing an open, standards-based flexible manufacturing cell. The manufacturing cell must take in a product definition, machine the defined part, inspect it, rework as necessary, and
Kang B. Lee, Rick Candell, Hans-Peter Bernhard, Dave Cavalcanti, Zhibo Pang, Inaki Val
Wireless has emerged as an enabling technology to improve operational flexibility and efficiency for factory automation. The latest wireless technology, standardization activities, and research issues were explored and discussed through the examination of
We investigate laser spot welding of 200 µm thick Cu and Al foils using laser-induced fluorescence (LIF). The key to strong Cu/Al welds is limited intermetallic compound formation through controlled molten metal interaction time. For laser lap welds, Cu in
Interoperability across emerging visualization modalities, including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), remains a challenge with respect to industrial applications. One critical issue relates to the lack of standard approaches for
Soonjo Kwon, William Z. Bernstein, Laetitia V. Monnier, Raphael Barbau
Realizing the digital thread is essential for linking and orchestrating data across the product lifecycle in smart manufacturing. Linking heterogeneous lifecycle data is critical to maintain associativity and traceability in a digital thread. Recently
William Z. Bernstein, Melissa Tensa, Maxwell Praniewicz, Soonjo Kwon, Deverajan Ramanujan
Integrating environmental sustainability assessment into parametric design represents an important opportunity for enabling sustainable product design. However, this is a challenging task as quantitative methods for sustainability assessment are poorly
Hitoshi Komoto, William Z. Bernstein, Soonjo Kwon, Fumihiko Kimura
Standards play a critical role in the realization of more sustainable practices in manufacturing systems. This is especially critical considering the trends in digitization and virtualization of production systems. More data is being generated at
Roger V. Bostelman, YaShian Li-Baboud, Karl Van Wyk, Mili Shah
Exoskeletons are now being marketed by several manufacturers and yet there are currently no defined methods to measure the exoskeleton fit to the user. Proper exoskeleton fit to user impacts the safety of the human robot interaction. In this paper, we
This report describes how different smart manufacturing standards and technologies, such as MTConnect, were integrated in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed to support the collection
This report provides general recommendations for collecting, curating, and re-using manufacturing data from both additive and subtractive processes. The intended audience includes researchers, technical-assessment personnel, and end-users who would like to
Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Moneer Helu, Sylvere Krima, Allison Barnard Feeney
The purpose of this recommendations report is to provide practical how-to guidance for ensuring traceability and trustworthiness of manufacturing-related data. The recommendations contained herein address both subtractive and additive manufacturing
Michael P. Powell, James J. McCarthy, CheeYee Tang, Keith Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, William C. Barker, Titilayo Ogunyale, Devin M. Wynne
Industrial control systems (ICS) are used in many industries to monitor and control physical processes. As ICS continue to adopt commercially available information technology (IT) to promote corporate business systems' connectivity and remote access
Manufacturing processes have become increasingly sophisticated leading to greater usage of robotics. Sustaining successful manufacturing robotic operations requires a strategic maintenance program. Maintenance can be very costly, especially when some
Nancy Diaz-Elsayed, Luis Hernandez, Ravi Rajamani, Brian Weiss
Unscheduled downtime in manufacturing systems can be a major source of lost productivity, profits, and, ultimately, reduced process quality and reliability. However, the incorporation of asset condition management (ACM) into manufacturing systems offers an
The frequency response function (FRF), defined as the ratio between the Fourier transform of the time-domain output and the Fourier transform of the time-domain input, is a common tool to analyze the relationships between inputs and outputs of a mechanical
Rachael Sexton, Michael Brundage, Alden A. Dima, Michael Sharp
The Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) in 2020 is the 15th annual conference put on by the Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED) of ASME. MED and ASME MSEC focuses on manufacturing sciences, technology, and applications, including
Saideep Nannapaneni, Sankaran Mahadevan, Abhishek Dubey, Yung-Tsun Lee
Recent technological advancements in computing, sensing and communication have led to the development of cyber-physical manufacturing processes, where a computing system monitors the manufacturing process performance in real-time by analyzing sensor data
Standards to represent and manage manufacturing data are proliferating as industry rapidly digitizes. The existing global standards development paradigm for manufacturing data needs to shift to digital tools and workflows that produce machine-readable
Continued advancement of sensors has led to an ever-increasing amount of data of various physical nature to be acquired from production lines. As rich information relevant to the machines and processes are embedded within these "big data," how to
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's (RAS) standards study and working groups are strong and growing stronger. As of the time of this publication, we have two published standards, six working groups actively developing future standards, and one study
Paromita Nath, Joseph Olson, Sankaran Mahadevan, Yung-Tsun Lee
This work presents a novel process design optimization framework for additive manufacturing (AM) by integrating physics-informed computational simulation models with experimental observations. The proposed framework is implemented to optimize the process
In this study a feedforward control method for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing (AM) process is demonstrated. It minimizes the meltpool variation by updating the scan strategy based on a data-driven predictive meltpool model. A
Jeremy A. Marvel, Shelly Bagchi, Megan L. Zimmerman, Brian Antonishek
We present a comprehensive framework for the evaluation of human-machine interfaces (HMI) and human-robot interactions (HRI) in collaborative manufacturing applications. An overview of the challenges that face current- and next-generation collaborative