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Supply Chain Traceability Principles: A Manufacturing Meta-Framework

September 9, 2026
Author(s)
Michael Pease, Evan Wallace, Harvey Reed, Robert Martin, Vivian L Martin, Steve Granata
Manufacturing supply chains are vital to national security and economic resilience. As these networks become increasingly complex, tracing products back to their origins becomes more difficult and exposes acquirers to greater risks from logistical

Manufacturing in a Circular Economy: Research Needs in Design, Systems Modeling, and Digital Thread

September 8, 2026
Author(s)
Noah Last, Kelsea Schumacher, Nehika Mathur, Vincenzo Ferrero, Matthew Triebe, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Naser Alqseer, Maya Reslan, Katherine Morris
Momentum is building to transition from a linear (take-make-use-discard) economy into a more circular one in which materials are kept in the economy through value-retention and -recovery processes. This momentum is taking the form of shifts in consumer

Development of a Multi-Criteria Indicator for Product Life Cycle Decision-Making

July 21, 2026
Author(s)
Yong Han Kim, Sidi Deng, Thomas Maani, Matthew Triebe, Nehika Mathur, John Sutherland
Maximizing product value and resource efficiency has been widely regarded as a key objective throughout the product life cycle, supported by improved product designs, informed manufacturing decisions, and regenerative approaches. Although the evaluation of

Manufacturing USA Program Strategic Plan

March 17, 2026
Author(s)
Robert Rudnitsky, Said Jahanmir, Zahraha Brunner, Kelley Rogers, Michael Molnar, Mai Tran
The Manufacturing USA Program Strategic Plan outlines the program's vision, mission, goals, and objectives for the next four years and describes how the Program will carry them out, including its technology investment strategy, its role in catalyzing

An Improved Robotic Workcell for Operational Technology (OT) Research

December 18, 2025
Author(s)
Timothy Zimmerman, Michael Pease, Michael Dawson
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has constructed a discrete manufacturing workcell to support its operational technology (OT) and critical infrastructure research. This work is an improvement on the "Collaborative Robotics Testbed"

Supply Chain Disruption and Agent-Based Modeling : A Literature Review and Model

September 25, 2025
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas, Jennifer Helgeson, Ireland Crowther
This report provides a literature review of supply chain disruption and agent-based models. It also develops an agent-based model to examine emergent phenomena in supply chain disruption. This model will eventually be used to 1) examine how supply chain

Analyzing Collusion Threats in the Semiconductor Supply Chain

June 30, 2025
Author(s)
Sanjay Rekhi, Kostas Amberiadis, Abir Ahsan Akib, Ankur Srivastava
In this work, we propose a comprehensive framework to analyze threats related to semiconductor supply chain. The framework introduces a metric which quantifies the severity of different threats subjected to a collusion of adversaries from different stages

SysML Extension for Logistics Modeling and Analysis (SysLMA)

April 23, 2025
Author(s)
Raphael Barbau, Conrad Bock
Many engineers use analysis tools to predict behavior or find optimal values for properties of systems built to proposed designs, informing system design work by identifying cases where a design will perform incorrectly or in suboptimal ways. Design and

The U.S. Plastics Recycling Economy: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities

October 30, 2024
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas, Joshua D. Kneifel, David Butry
This report builds upon NIST AMS 100-48 (Thomas 2022), which examined the economics of increased circularity in the economy, focusing on the processes, forces, and decision making that result in an unsustainable economy. This report further discusses the

Life-Cycle Analysis Datasets for Regionalized Plastic Pathways

February 1, 2024
Author(s)
Taemin Kim, Pahola Benavides, Joshua Kneifel, Kate Beers, Zifeng Lu, Troy Hawkins
The carbon intensity (CI) of producing five different resins – polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), polypropylene (PP), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) – in four different international regions –

Annual Report on the U.S. Manufacturing Economy: 2023

November 2, 2023
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S. industry compares to other countries, (2) the trends in the domestic industry, and (3) the

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ONTOLOGY STANDARDS AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO BIOMANUFACTURING

August 21, 2023
Author(s)
Milos Drobnjakovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Vijay Srinivasan, Simon P. Frechette
ISO and IEC have jointly initiated, and recently issued, a series of standards (the ISO/IEC 21838 series) for top-level ontologies. These standards have been used by industrial consortia to develop and disseminate standards for mid-level ontologies to ease

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ONTOLOGY STANDARDS AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO BIOMANUFACTURING

July 14, 2023
Author(s)
Milos Drobnjakovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
ISO and IEC have jointly initiated, and recently issued, a series of standards (the ISO/IEC 21838 series) for top-level ontologies. These standards have been used by industrial consortia to develop and disseminate standards for mid-level ontologies to ease

Formalizing and Reasoning about Supply Chain Contracts between Agents

January 8, 2023
Author(s)
Dylan Flynn, Chasity Nadeau, Jeannine Shantz, Marcello Balduccini, Tran Son, Edward Griffor
Inspired by the recent problems in supply chains, we propose an approach to declarative modeling of contracts between agents that will eventually support reasoning about resilience of and about ways to improve supply chains. Specifically, we present a high
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