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A major aerospace company operates large factories that involve thousands of component parts, subassemblies, major sub-systems, tools, fixtures, and material handling equipments to assemble commercial airplanes every day. They are considered mobile assets
Tommy Chang, Tsai H. Hong, Milli Shah, Roger D. Eastman
In this paper we develop the best homogeneous matrix trans- formation to fit two streams of dynamic six-degree-of-freedom (6DOF) data for evaluating perception systems using ground truth. In particular, we compare object position and orien- tation results
John L. Michaloski, Byeong Eon Lee, Frederick M. Proctor, Sid Venkatesh, Sidney Ly
In the CNC manufacturing world, the continuing pressure to reduce costs and improve time to market places a premium on smarter ways of manufacturing and intensifies the need to integrate feedback from the shop floor into the enterprise business systems
Ontologies can take many forms. There are ontologies that are extremely formal (e.g., using first order logic), and there are ontologies that are much less formally defined (e.g., ontologies in the relational databases or dictionaries). Nonetheless, all of
Jack Cheng, Kincho H. Law, Albert T. Jones, Ram D. Sriram
Supply chain management integrates key business processes and facilities, involving end users and suppliers that provide products, services and information. Supply chain integration can potentially add value to the stakeholders along product development
As technology progresses, the control of environment for experiments is also getting more sophisticated; such as the control of lab temperature and vibration. Temperature controlled within ± 0.25° C for a general purpose lab is common place. We illustrate
The Dimensional Markup Language (DML) specification defines a data model and Extensible Model Language (XML) encoding rules for dimensional inspection results for discrete parts. To support manufacturing quality assurance processes, DML results files are
The Dimensional Standards Consortium (DMSC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the rollout of the DMSC's DMIS Certification Program at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), September 2008. The
Ndubuisi G. Orji, Ronald G. Dixson, Aaron Cordes, Benjamin Bunday, John Allgair
A key requirement for nano-manufacturing is maintaining acceptable traceability of measurements performed to determine size. Given that properties and functionality at the nanoscale are governed by absolute size, maintaining the traceability of dimensional
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Spoken Language Communication and Translation for Tactical Use (TRANSTAC) program is a focused advanced technology research and development program. The intent of the TRANSTAC program is to
NIST has developed B2B interoperability testbeds to assist the assessment of interoperability among the B2B applications. One of the capabilities provided by the testbeds is content-level test that focused on testing of data semantics. Test harness for the
Gordon A. Shaw, Joseph J. Maurer, Steven E. Fick, Thomas P. Moffat, J. J. Mallett, John L. Hudson
Electrochemical micromachining (ECMM) with ultrashort voltage pulses, a maskless all-electrochemical micro and nanofabrication technique, has been used to fabricate microstructures on a corrosion resistant nickel-based superalloy, Hastelloy B-2. Because of
With the proliferation of computers to process, store, and transfer information, manufacturers are suffering increasing costs due to information incompatibilities. The information incompatibility problem in manufacturing quality is costly to everyone
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, John S. Villarrubia
The imaging and measurement of nanostructures such as particles, carbon nanotubes, and quantum dots have placed new demands on the high resolution imaging capabilities of scanning electron microscopes. A barrier to accurate dimensional metrology is the
Advanced research in nanomanufacturing technologies and processes has continued at an accelerating rate over the past decade. Profitable niche applications such as the use of carbon nanotubes for improving battery performance and nanoparticle-enhanced
Alex Weissman, Satyandra K. Gupta, Xenia Fiorentini, Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram
Large scale distributed design projects increasingly result in designs that do not fully conform to the stated design goals or specifications. Hence, there is a need to validate these designs against various requirements. For projects with a large set of
In any manufacturing enterprise, there are two types of tools used to create and share product related data across its extended network. The engineering information of the product is created using what is commonly called engineering authoring tool (e.g
Nils E. Bengtsson, Guodong Shao, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Swee K. Leong, Charles R. McLean, Bjorn Johansson, Anders Skoogh
Input Data Management (IDM) is a time consuming and costly process for Discrete Event Simulation (DES) projects. In this paper, a methodology for IDM in DES projects is described. The approach is to use a methodology to identify and collect data, then use
Developing mechanisms for the efficient exchange of information between simulations and other manufacturing tools is a critical problem. For many areas of manufacturing, neither representations for the information nor mechanisms for exchanging the
Martin Y. Sohn, Richard Quintanilha, Bryan M. Barnes, Richard M. Silver
An angle-resolved scatterfield microscope (ARSM( feating 193 nm excimer laser light wa developed for measuring critical dimension (CD) and overlay of nanoscale targets as used in semiconductor metrology. The microscope is designed to have a wide and
Bjoern J. Johansson, Asa Fasth, Johan Stahre, Juhani Heilala, Swee K. Leong, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Frank H. Riddick
Handling flexibility in an ever changing manufacturing environment is one of the key challenges for a successful industry. By using tools for virtual manufacturing, industries can analyze and predict outcomes of changes before taking action to change the
This is a system builders manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.1.5. The purpose of the manual is to help system builders use software provided in the test suite for building systems that implement DMIS (the Dimensional Measuring Interface
Xenia Fiorentini, Sudarsan Rachuri, Steven R. Ray, Ram D. Sriram
Designers and engineers use various engineering authoring tools, such as CAD, CAE, and PDM,, to generate information objects (engineering objects). On the business side, enterprise level business process modelers use various business authoring tools, such
The NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.1.5, is described. The test suite is intended to serve two purposes, 1) to help users and vendors use version 5.1 of DMIS (the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard) and 2) to provide utilities and test files for
This paper recommends practices for development and deployment of modeling, simulation and analysis (MS&A) tools for homeland security applications. The set of recommended practices applicable to any MS&A application includes: software engineering practice