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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
This paper reviews and classifies literature on operational control of discrete event logistics systems (DELS). Operational control manipulates the flow of items through a DELS. Each control problem addressed in the surveyed literature is classified based
The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) data model for source data stream collections standardizes the packaging of security content into self-contained bundles for easy deployment. But no single data model can satisfy all requirements. The source
A key challenge for many manufacturers today is efficiently producing and delivering their products on time. Issues include demand for customized products, changes in customer orders, and equipment status change on the shop floor. These issues complicate
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
Deverajan Ramanujan, William Z. Bernstein, Maria A. Totorikaguena, Charlotte F. Ilvig, Klaus B. Orskov
Design for Environment (DfE) principles are helpful for integrating manufacturing-specific environmental sustainability considerations into product and process design. However, such principles are often overly general, static, and disconnected from
Partitioning is one of the four major operations used in the international standards issued by ISO/TC 213 on geometrical product specifications and verifications (GPS, for short). The ISO GPS standards define both tolerancing (for specification) and
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Evan K. Wallace, Dimitris Kiritsis, Barry Smith, Chris Will
The current industrial revolution is said to be driven by the digitization of manu-facturing that exploits connected information across all aspects of manufacturing. Standards have been recognized as an important enabler. Ontology is the next generation
Transforming the manufacturing economy from paper-based information flows to a seamless digital thread across geographically distributed supply chains has the potential to reduce cycle time by 75% and save manufacturers $30 billion annually. The "Digital
Baseline Tailor is an innovative web application for users of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and Special Publication (SP) 800-53. Baseline Tailor makes the information in these widely referenced
This report summarizes the results from the 2017 NIST/OAGi Workshop: Enabling Composable Service-Oriented Manufacturing Systems, which was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology campus in Gaithersburg, MD, on April 10-11, 2017. This was
Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Moneer Helu, Timothy A. Sprock
The increasing decentralization of manufacturing has contributed to the growing interest in scalable distributed manufacturing systems (DMSs). The emerging body of work from smart manufacturing, Industrie 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and
The digital thread links disparate systems across the product lifecycle to support data curation and information cultivation and enable data-driven applications, e.g., digital twin. Realizing the digital thread requires the integration of semantically-rich
This paper enumerates challenges and limitations faced as an open source visualization software, namely Keshif, was paired with an SQL database from the NIST manufacturing shop located in the Fabrication Technology Division. The goal of this project is to
Smart Manufacturing assumes agile integration of manufacturing services and applications. This implies that manufacturing message standards, which are key to the services integration, need to be quickly created, used, and managed. That is a far cry from
Alexander Brodsky, Mohan Krishnamoorthy, Mohomad O. Nachawati, William Z. Bernstein, Daniel A. Menasce
In this paper we report on the development of a software framework and system for composition, optimization and trade-off analysis of manufacturing and contract service networks based on a reusable repository of performance models. Performance models
Nathan W. Hartman, Jesse Zahner, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Allison Barnard Feeney
Industrial practice is in a state of transition, away from the use of drawings towards the use of annotated 3D CAD models as a means of communication. Working as a representation of an object or a system, a model-based product definition (MBD) is used to
Conrad E. Bock, Raphael Barbau, Ion Matei, Mehdi Dadfarnia
Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of developing today's complex systems. Systems engineers create and review these representations using graphical modeling languages that capture requirements, designs
Nenad Ivezic, Miroslav Ljubicic, Marija Jankovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Scott Nieman, Garret Minakawa
Despite unrelenting increase in complexity of message standards for enterprise systems integrations, there are no effective means to address this complexity issue in practice. We describe an effort to address the issue by advancing message standards
Manufacturing companies advertise their manufacturing capabilities and services on their company website using natural language text. The unstructured capability data published on the web is a rich source of formal and informal manufacturing terms and
In concert with the advances in information and communication technology and its applications to manufacturing environments, physical entities in factories are acquiring more intelligence via the integration with cyber systems. This integration brings
Many software tools use security configuration checklists expressed in the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) to monitor computers and other information technology products for compliance with security policies. But XCCDF syntax