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A Graph Database Approach to Wireless IIoT Work-cell Performance Evaluation

February 28, 2020

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Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany, Yongkang Liu, Karl R. Montgomery, Sebti Foufou

The work-cell is an essential industrial environment for testing wireless communication techniques in factory automation processes. A new testbed was recently

Economic Guide for Identifying and Evaluating Industry Research Investments: A Focus on Applied Manufacturing Research

December 4, 2019

Author(s)

Douglas S. Thomas, Anand M. Kandaswamy

This guide was assembled to aid change agents, such as research and trade organizations, in evaluating potential research and development investments in the

Software to Report Product and Manufacturing Information in QIF Files

December 4, 2019

Author(s)

Robert R. Lipman

The QIF PMI Report (QPR) software generates a spreadsheet from a Quality Information Framework (QIF) file containing Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI)

CHALLENGES IN REPRESENTING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR SYSTEMATIC SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS - WORKSHOP ON JUNE 21, 2018

November 27, 2019

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Arvind Shankar Raman, Dustin Harper, Karl Haapala, Barbara S. Linke, William Z. Bernstein, Katherine C. Morris

A workshop on Challenges in Representing Manufacturing Processes for Systematic Sustainability Assessments, jointly sponsored by the U.S. National Science

On Practice and Theory of Constructive Composite Geometry and Topology

November 25, 2019

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Thomas D. Hedberg, Allison Barnard Feeney, Vijay Srinivasan

This paper synthesizes a theory from industrial best practices codified in recent standards. Recent editions of ASME and ISO standards codify the evolving

Annual Manufacturing Review: 2019

November 1, 2019

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Douglas S. Thomas

This report provides an overview of the US manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of US manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the US industry

Nestor: A Tool for Natural Language Annotation of Short Texts

November 1, 2019

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Thurston B. Sexton, Michael P. Brundage

Nestor is a software tool that annotates natural language CSV (comma-separated variable) files, with a UTF-8 encoding, using a process called tagging [1]. The

Network Charter: Manufacturing USA Program (Rev October 2019)

October 4, 2019

Author(s)

Michael F. Molnar

Under the authority of the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act (RAMI) of 2014, the Secretary of Commerce established the Network for

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level Example Implementations Guide: Volume 3 Discrete-based Manufacturing System Use Case

September 30, 2019

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Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy A. Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael J. Pease, Jeffrey A. Cichonski, Neeraj Shah, Wesley Downard

This guide provides example proof-of-concept solutions demonstrating how available open-source and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products could be implemented

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level Example Implementations Guide: Volume 1 General Implementation Guidance

September 30, 2019

Author(s)

Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy A. Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael J. Pease, Jeffrey A. Cichonski, Neeraj Shah, Wesley Downard

This guide provides general implementation guidance (Volume 1) and example proof-of-concept solutions demonstrating how available open-source and commercial off

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level Example Implementations Guide: Volume 2 Process-based Manufacturing System Use Case

September 30, 2019

Author(s)

Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy A. Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael J. Pease, Jeffrey A. Cichonski, Neeraj Shah, Wesley Downard

This guide provides example proof-of-concept solutions demonstrating how available open-source and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products could be implemented

Agreement Behavior of Isolated Annotators for Maintenance Work-Order Data Mining

September 27, 2019

Author(s)

Emily Hastings, Thurston B. Sexton, Michael P. Brundage, Melinda Hodkiewicz

Maintenance work orders (MWOs) are an integral part of the maintenance workflow. These documents allow technicians to capture vital aspects of a maintenance job

Studies to Predict Maintenance Time Duration and Important Factors From Maintenance Workorder Data

September 26, 2019

Author(s)

Fnu Madhusudanan Navinchandran, Michael E. Sharp, Michael P. Brundage, Thurston B. Sexton

Maintenance Work Orders (MWOs) are a useful way of recording semi-structured information regarding maintenance activities in a factory or other industrial

A proposed mapping method for aligning machine execution data to numerical control code

September 23, 2019

Author(s)

Laetitia V. Monnier, William Z. Bernstein, Sebti Foufou

The visions of the digital thread and smart manufacturing have boasted the potential of relating downstream data to upstream decisions in design. However, to

Using graphs to link data across the product lifecycle for enabling smart manufacturing digital threads

September 19, 2019

Author(s)

Thomas D. Hedberg, Manas Bajaj, Jaime A. Camelio

Smart manufacturing promises to provide significant increases in productivity and effectiveness of manufacturing systems by better connecting the data from

Manufacturing USA Annual Report, FY 2018

September 17, 2019

Author(s)

Robert G. Rudnitsky, Michael F. Molnar, Frank W. Gayle, Hong Liang, Lisa J. Fronczek, Said Jahanmir, Zahraha S. Brunner

This annual report documents the progress of the Manufacturing USA program in meeting its goals and describes the major accomplishments of the Manufacturing USA

Integrated Operations Management for Distributed Manufacturing

August 28, 2019

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Timothy A. Sprock, Michael E. Sharp, William Z. Bernstein, Michael P. Brundage, Moneer M. Helu, Thomas D. Hedberg

In traditional manufacturing operations management systems, the four pillars of ISA-95 (production, quality, maintenance, inventory) are each implemented as

Securing, Authenticating, and Visualizing Data-Links for Manufacturing Enterprises

August 27, 2019

Author(s)

William Z. Bernstein, Sylvere I. Krima, Laetitia V. Monnier, Mehdi Shahid

We introduce a prototype implementation of the Securing and Authenticating Data-Links (SADL) Interface, which interacts with a manufacturing handle registry to

Flow Time Innovations: The Effect on Productivity and Production in US Manufacturing

August 20, 2019

Author(s)

Douglas S. Thomas

Between 2005 and 2016, US multifactor productivity declined an average 0.3 % annually. Some debate has ensued about the cause of this decline or whether there

A Standardized Representation of Convolutional Neural Networks for Reliable Deployment of Machine Learning Models in the Manufacturing Industry

August 18, 2019

Author(s)

Max K. Ferguson, Seongwoon Jeong, Kincho H. Law, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Svetlana Levitan, Jena Tridivesh, Yung-Tsun T. Lee

The use of deep convolutional neural networks is becoming increasingly popular in the engineering and manufacturing sectors. However, managing the distribution

TOWARDS EFFICIENT THERMAL SIMULATION OF POWDER BED FUSION ON PATH LEVEL

August 15, 2019

Author(s)

Paul W. Witherell

As a widely used additive manufacturing (AM) technology to produce metallic parts, powder bed fusion (PBF) is driven by a moving heat source. Thermal simulation

The Model Based Enterprise: A Literature Review of Costs and Benefits for Discrete Manufacturing

July 25, 2019

Author(s)

Douglas S. Thomas

Currently, there is a limited understanding of the costs related to suboptimal design and production information. There is incomplete information on how

Towards Operational Use of Unit Manufacturing Process Models

July 25, 2019

Author(s)

Amogh Kulkarni, William Z. Bernstein, David Lechevalier, Daniel Balasubramanian, Gabor Karsai, Peter O. Denno

Unit Manufacturing Processes (UMP) are models that capture succinct definitions of individual manufacturing steps in a manufacturing system. They are used to

WHERE DO WE START? GUIDANCE FOR TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATION IN MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT FOR MANUFACTURING

July 23, 2019

Author(s)

Michael P. Brundage, Thurston B. Sexton, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Katherine C. Morris, Jorge Arinez, Farhad Ameri, Jun Ni, Guoxian Xiao

Recent efforts in Smart Manufacturing (SM) have proven quite effective at elucidating system behavior using sensing systems, communications and computational

Where do we start? Guidance for technology implementation in maintenance management for manufacturing

July 23, 2019

Author(s)

Michael P. Brundage, Thurston B. Sexton, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Katherine C. Morris, Jorge Arinez, Farhad Ameri, Jun Ni, Guoxian Xiao

Recent efforts in Smart Manufacturing (SM) have proven quite effective at elucidating system behavior using sensing systems, communications and computational

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