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Controlling Activities in a Virtual Manufacturing Cell

May 1, 1996
Author(s)
Michael Iuliano, Albert W. Jones
… of Standards and Technology are developing a virtual manufacturing cell. This cell will contain simulation models of a wide range of manufacturing equipment, processes, and systems. It will have … it is exchanged. This paper describes the current virtual manufacturing cell, with special emphasis on the hierarchy we …

Maintenance and Operations of Manufacturing Digital Twins

December 13, 2023
Author(s)
Alp Akcay, Stephan Biller, Boon Ping Gan, Christoph Laroque, Guodong Shao
… Digital twins have become an important element in smart manufacturing. As any other product, digital twins also have … digital twins until their decommissioning. As part of the Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 track of the Winter Simulation … a special emphasis on the operations and maintenance of manufacturing digital twins during their lifecycles. The …

Effect of the Additive Manufacturing Process on Cutting Forces in Hybrid Manufacturing

November 3, 2017
Author(s)
Michael Gomez, Andrew Honeycutt, Jarred C. Heigel, Tony Schmitz
… components with complex geometries to be made via additive manufacturing (AM). Disadvantages of AM are rougher surface … numerically-controlled (CNC) machining [1]. Hybrid manufacturing combines additive and subtractive manufacturing strategies, which allows complex metal parts to …

Cognitive Automation and its Impact on Additive Manufacturing

October 15, 2020
Author(s)
Albert T. Jones, Zhuo Yang, Yan Lu
… The English word manufacturing firstly appeared in 1683 and it was derived … which we call physical automation, essentially changes manufacturing from making-by-humans hand only to … (control) and even after (inspection), the actual making (manufacturing) can begin. We call that evolution cognitive …

A FRAMEWORK FOR INTEROPERABLE SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING PROCESS ANALYSIS APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT

December 12, 2012
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Frank H. Riddick, Juyeon Lee, Mark B. Campanelli, Duck B. Kim, Yung-Tsun T. Lee
… Sustainable manufacturing (SM) continues to grow in importance. However, … proposing a framework that will enables sustainable manufacturing process analysis applications to be developed … the developing of analysis platforms and sustainable manufacturing information models by enabling the integration …

Manufacturing USA Institute Evaluation: Renewal Process and Performance Standards

July 9, 2021
Author(s)
Kelley Rogers, Robert G. Rudnitsky
… The Manufacturing USA Program's 2019 reauthorization allows the … Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to renew Manufacturing USA institute support, subject to a "rigorous … Manufacturing USA, Advanced Manufacturing, NIIMBL, National Institute for Innovation in …

A Methodology for Systematic Generation and Evaluation of Alternative Operation Plans

January 1, 1994
Author(s)
Satyandra K. Gupta, William Regli, D Nau, Li Zhang
… plan to see which one best balances the need for efficient manufacturing against the need for a quality product. We … analysis will be useful both to provide information to the manufacturing engineer about alternative ways in which the … Advances in Feature-Based Manufacturing …

Reference architecture to integrate heterogeneous manufacturing systems for the digital thread

May 22, 2017
Author(s)
Moneer M. Helu, Thomas D. Hedberg, Allison Barnard Feeney
… The increasing growth of digital technologies in manufacturing has provided industry with opportunities to … so that shared data may be used to improve design and manufacturing processes. The development of the digital … architecture designed to manage the data generated by manufacturing systems for the digital thread. The …

The Current State and Recent Trends of the U.S. Manufacturing Industry

December 20, 2012
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
… This report brings together multiple sources of aggregate manufacturing industry data and industry subsector data to develop a quantitative depiction of the U.S. manufacturing industry. It compares the U.S. manufacturing industry to its international counterparts in …

An Architecture for Intelligent Manufacturing Control

February 1, 1985
Author(s)
Charles R. McLean
… A small batch manufacturing system testbed, currently under construction at … standards. One of the expressed goals of the NBS Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) project is the … level of intelligence equal to that found in conventional manufacturing. Undoubtedly, factories will eventually be …

A Fully Registered In-Situ and Ex-Situ Dataset for Metal Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing: Data Processing, Feature Extraction, Registration, and Uncertainties

May 8, 2025
Author(s)
Zhuo Yang, Yan Lu, Ho Yeung, Brandon Lane, Nicole Van Handel
… for the previously published datasets from Additive Manufacturing Metrology Testbed (AMMT) parts, "Overhang Part … the understanding of laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (AM). In the last four years, the NIST team … Advanced Manufacturing Series (NIST AMS) - 100-69 …

Manufacturing Systems Integration Control Entity Interface Document

January 1, 1991
Author(s)
M. K. Senehi, S Wallace, Evan K. Wallace, Steven R. Ray, Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr.
… for controllers to be incorporated into an integrated manufacturing production planning and control environment that conforms to the NIST Manufacturing Systems Integration (MSI) architectural model. This document is a companion document to the NIST Manufacturing Systems Integration (MSI) Initial Architecture …

A DOMAIN DRIVEN APPROACH TO METAMODELING IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

September 6, 2017
Author(s)
Peter O. Denno, Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Douglas Eddy
… and optimize system input-output relationships in Additive Manufacturing (AM). This paper addresses a key challenge in … for a domain-driven metamodeling approach in additive manufacturing (AM). As part of this work, a metamodel … Smart Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing, Metamodeling, …

An Overview of Nano-Micro-Meso Scale Manufacturing at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

March 1, 2000
Author(s)
E Amatucci, Nicholas Dagalakis, Bradley N. Damazo, Matthew A. Davies, John Evans, Jun-Feng Song
… The future of Nano, Micro and Meso Scale manufacturing operations will be strongly influenced by a new breed of assembly and manufacturing tools that will be intelligent, flexible, more … data. To prioritized NIST efforts in Nano, Micro and Meso manufacturing, several visits to industrial and government …

Towards a Domain-Specific Framework for Predictive Analytics in Manufacturing

October 3, 2014
Author(s)
David J. Lechevalier, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Sudarsan Rachuri
… to be very useful for achieving productivity gains in manufacturing. Predictive analytics (using advanced machine learning) is particularly valuable in manufacturing, as it leads to production improvement with … of manufactured products by anticipating changes to the manufacturing system states. Many small and medium …

Conceptual Architecture of Digital Twins with Human-in-the-Loop - Based Smart Manufacturing

November 2, 2023
Author(s)
Duckbong Kim, Mahdi Bajestani, Guodong Shao, Albert T. Jones, Sang Do Noh
… Smart manufacturing has the goal of finding near-optimal, … sustainable, and resilient solutions to various manufacturing problems. It is based on a vision that … be minimized. Current situation is that some traditional manufacturing processes have been automated, i.e., software …

Dexterous Manipulation for Manufacturing Applications Workshop

June 21, 2013
Author(s)
Joseph A. Falco, Jeremy A. Marvel, Elena R. Messina
… theme of applying dexterous robotics toward flexible manufacturing. This report summarizes three technical … in dexterous grasping, robot arm technology, and flexible manufacturing and the results of open-format panel … Dexterous Manipulation for Manufacturing Applications Workshop …

Modeling of Manufacturing Resource Information, Requirements Specification

March 1, 1995
Author(s)
Kevin K. Jurrens, James E. Fowler, Mary B. Algeo
… of a common representation of a limited set of manufacturing resources. The resources so characterized … is principally based on a through examination of manufacturing software usage of manufacturing resource data, existing manufacturing resource … cutting tools, machine tools, manufacturing resources, modeling, system integration …

Towards Standardization in Biotechnology Platforms to Support Smart Manufacturing

December 16, 2020
Author(s)
Sheng Lin-Gibson, Vijay Srinivasan
… and investment in, various technology platforms, including manufacturing and measurement platforms, across many sectors … this global challenge requires smart and distributed manufacturing underpinned by robust standards necessary to … The ASTM Journal of Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing …

An analysis of technologies and standards for designing smart manufacturing systems

September 20, 2016
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Katherine C. Morris, Sangsu Choi, Kiwook Jung
… Smart manufacturing is defined by high degrees of automation. … and reliable systems. As with the rest of society manufacturing systems are becoming more tightly connected … more quickly as well. Quick responses to changes to a manufacturing system are much more challenging than the …

Reasoning in Manufacturing Part-Part Examples with OWL 2

October 29, 2008
Author(s)
Nenad Krdzavac, Conrad E. Bock
… Language 2 (OWL 2) is expressive enough for some common manufacturing examples involving relations between parts of … give restrictions typical of part-part applications in manufacturing that might be useful in future research. … Description Logic, Manufacturing, SROIQ …

Formation of an Electronics Manufacturing Supply Chain Via Information Models

January 1, 1997
Author(s)
Ronald Giachetti
… The agile electronics manufacturing enterprise must rapidly develop new products by … close interaction with their supplier network. Design for manufacturing must occur in this extended and distributed … the use of information models to support this activity. A manufacturing model is built using the EXPRESS information …

The Automated Manufacturing Research Facility at NBS

February 1, 1986
Author(s)
Charles R. McLean
… The Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) at the U.S. National … government laboratory for research in computer integrated manufacturing. The AMRF is designed to support the NBS role … Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF), standards, measurement, computer integrated manufacturing …

The Economic Impact of Technology Infrastructure for Advanced Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing

October 31, 2016
Author(s)
Gary W. Anderson Jr.
… a series of independent analyses to guide advanced manufacturing research investments. This brief reports on the results from the analysis of advanced roll-to-roll manufacturing sector. The studies find that closing critical … and delivers substantial economic benefit to the advanced manufacturing sector. …
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