U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Search Publications

NIST Authors in Bold

Displaying 401 - 425 of 2183

Design, Manufacturing, and Inspection Data for a Three-Component Assembly

February 12, 2019
Author(s)
Thomas D. Hedberg, Michael E. Sharp, Toby M. Maw, Mostafizur M. Rahman, Swati Jadhav, James J. Whicker, Allison Barnard Feeney, Moneer M. Helu
To better understand and address the challenges faced in linking all stages of a manufacturing and design process, an investigative fabrication process was designed and enacted as part of a collaboration between the National Institute of Standards and

Factory Optima: A Web-based System for Composition and Analysis of Manufacturing Service Networks based on a Reusable Model Repository

February 6, 2019
Author(s)
Alexander Brodsky, Mohan Krishnamoorthy, Mohomad O. Nachawati, William Z. Bernstein, Daniel A. Menasce
This paper reports on the development of Factory Optima, a web-based system that allows manufacturing process engineers to compose, optimize and perform trade-off analysis of manufacturing and contract service networks based on a reusable repository of

Annual Manufacturing Review: 2018

January 28, 2019
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
This annual report characterizes US innovation and industrial competitiveness in manufacturing. It includes tracking domestic manufacturing activity and its domestic supply chain in order to develop a quantitative depiction of US manufacturing in the

COMPARISON OF DATA ANALYTICS APPROACHES USING SIMULATION

December 9, 2018
Author(s)
Sanjay Jain, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Yung-Tsun Lee
Selecting the right data analytics (DA) approach for an application is rather complex. Obtaining sufficient and right kind of data for evaluating these approaches is a challenge. Simulation models can support this process by generating synthetic data where

Empowering Robotics in Manufacturing Through Metrology

December 3, 2018
Author(s)
Jeremy A. Marvel, Elena R. Messina
This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities surrounding robotics, as faced by the manufacturing industry. The means by which metrology can address these challenges and opportunities are also discussed. Details are given regarding NIST's Robotic

The Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition

December 3, 2018
Author(s)
William Harrison, Anthony Downs, Craig I. Schlenoff
The Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC) is an annual simulation-based competition initiated in 2017. The competition challenges teams to design industrial robotic system control code to function in a dynamic environment. Each team

A Survey on Knowledge Transfer for Manufacturing Data Analytics

November 5, 2018
Author(s)
Seung Hwan Bang, Ronay Ak, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Hyunbo Cho
Data analytics techniques have been used for numerous manufacturing applications in various areas. A common assumption of data analytics models is that the environment that generates data is stationary, that is, the feature (or label) space or distribution

A more efficient method for calibrating discrete element method parameters for simulations of metallic powder used in additive manufacturing

October 31, 2018
Author(s)
Stephen R. Geer, Michelle Bernhardt, Edward Garboczi, Justin Whiting, Alkan Donmez
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is an additive manufacturing (AM) process that uses a high-power laser to selectively melt metal powder that has been spread, layer-by-layer, to create parts with highly complex features. Because of the strong influence that

Performance Metrics and Test Methods for Robotic Hands (Draft)

October 31, 2018
Author(s)
Joseph A. Falco, Karl Van Wyk, Elena R. Messina
Increasing the flexibility and general-purpose applicability of robots is a longstanding goal. Several avenues of research are addressing these goals, ranging from integration of multiple sensors to allow robots to perceive their surroundings and adapt

Standards-based integration of advanced process control and optimization

October 28, 2018
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Hasan Latif, Carla Martin, Peter O. Denno
Integration of process control with optimization is critical to Smart Manufacturing (SM). Oftentimes, however, the process control solutions from one vendor do not interoperate with the optimization solutions of another. Incompatibilities among the

Effects of Consumer Use Practices on Nanosilver Release from Commercially Available Food Contact Materials

October 23, 2018
Author(s)
Susana Addo Ntim, Samuel R. Norris, David Goodwin, Jens Breffke, Keana Scott, Li Piin Sung, Treye Thomas, Gregory O. Noonan
Migration evaluation involving nano-enabled food contact materials (FCMs) mostly focus on potential nanoparticle release from new unused products. This may not represent consumer use practices encountered by the FCMs in their lifecycle. In order to

Guest Editorial Open Discussion of Robot Grasping Benchmarks, Protocols and Metrics

October 15, 2018
Author(s)
Jeffrey Mahler, Rob Platt, Alberto Rodriguez, Matei Ciocarlie, Aaron Dollar, Renaud Detry, Maximo Roa, Holly A. Yanco, Adam Norton, Joseph Falco, Karl Van Wyk, Elena R. Messina, Jurgen Leitner, Oliver Brock, Odhner Lael, Andrey Kurenkov, Matthew Matl, Ken Goldberg
Automated grasping has a long history of research that is increasing due to interest from industry. One Grand Challenge for robotics is Universal Picking: the ability to robustly grasp a broad variety of objects in diverse environments for applications

UMP BUILDER: CAPTURING AND EXCHANGING MANUFACTURING MODELS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

September 26, 2018
Author(s)
William Z. Bernstein, Donald E. Libes, David J. Lechevalier
Targeting the improvement of environmental analysis of manufacturing systems, ASTM 3012-16 provides guidelines for formally characterizing manufacturing processes. However, the difficulty that has arisen in the early use of the standard illustrates the

Benchmarking for keyword extraction methodologies in maintenance work orders

September 24, 2018
Author(s)
Thurston B. Sexton, Michael P. Brundage, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Thomas Smoker
Maintenance has largely remained a human-knowledge centered activity, with the primary records of maintenance activity being text-based maintenance work orders (MWOs) that attempt to encode the diagnostic processes of technicians. However, the bulk of

Advanced Maintenance in Manufacturing: Costs and Benefits

September 23, 2018
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
The costs of maintenance and the potential effect on maintenance costs from adopting predictive maintenance techniques is not well documented at the national level. A number of data items need to be collected to estimate the costs and losses associated
Displaying 401 - 425 of 2183
Was this page helpful?