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Search Publications by: Simon P Frechette (Fed)

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Towards Ontologizing a Digital Twin Framework for Manufacturing

September 21, 2023
Author(s)
Milos Drobnjakovic, Guodong Shao, Ana Nikolov, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
This paper presents a timely opportunity to ontologize a digital twin frame-work for manufacturing using recently published international standards and proposes a collaborative research effort to accomplish this task. The ISO/IEC 21838 series of standards

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

A Novel Data Standards Platform using ISO Core Components Technical Specification

August 1, 2021
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Elena Jelisic, Hakju Oh, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
It is generally observed in inter-organizational communication that present-day data exchange standards are too costly and too complex to develop and use. These problems in data exchange are felt keenly by manufacturing industry with its vast supply chains

Foundations of information governance for smart manufacturing

June 11, 2019
Author(s)
KC Morris, Yan Lu, Simon P. Frechette
The manufacturing systems of the future will be even more heavily dependent on the data than they are today. More and more data and information are being collected and communicated throughout product development lifecycles and across manufacturing value

Cyber-physical Systems Engineering for Manufacturing

October 7, 2016
Author(s)
Allison Barnard Feeney, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
There is a convergence of interests in cyber-physical systems, systems engineering, and manufacturing innovation in the United States. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has undertaken research programs in smart manufacturing

DRILLING DOWN ON SMART MANUFACTURING -- ENABLING COMPOSABLE APPS

August 16, 2016
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, KC Morris, Simon P. Frechette
One of the most exciting new capabilities in Smart Manufacturing (SM) is the provisioning of manufacturing services as unbundled "apps," which could be significantly more flexible and less expensive to use than the current generation of monolithic

OAGi/NIST Workshop on Open Cloud Architecture for Smart Manufacturing

April 20, 2016
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Yan Lu, Yunsu Lee, Jaehun Lee, Albert W. Jones, Simon P. Frechette
This report summarizes the results from the OAGi/NIST Workshop on Open Cloud Architecture for Smart Manufacturing, which was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on May 5, 2015. The workshop was a forum for manufacturers and providers

Current Standards Landscape for Smart Manufacturing Systems

February 23, 2016
Author(s)
Yan Lu, Katherine C. Morris, Simon P. Frechette
The future of manufacturing lies in being able to optimize the use of resources to produce high quality product and adapt quickly to changing conditions. From smaller lot sizes, to more customization, to sudden changes in supply chain; the variability that

Standards Landscape and Directions for Smart Manufacturing Systems

August 24, 2015
Author(s)
Yan Lu, Katherine C. Morris, Simon P. Frechette
The future of manufacturing lies in being able to adapt quickly to changing conditions. From smaller lot sizes, to more customization, to sudden changes in supply chain, the variability that manufacturers face is rapidly increasing. The key to enabling

Model Based Enterprise Summit Report

November 4, 2013
Author(s)
Joshua Lubell, Simon P. Frechette, Robert R. Lipman, Frederick M. Proctor, John A. Horst, Mark G. Carlisle, Paul J. Huang
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions, and recommendations from the Model-Based Enterprise Summit held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in December of 2012. The purpose of the Summit was to identify challenges, research

Model Based Enterprise Technical Data Package Requirements

August 20, 2013
Author(s)
Simon P. Frechette, Paul J. Huang
The Department of Defense and the National Institute of Standards and Technology held a Model Based Enterprise Summit and Technical Data Package (TDP) Workshop December 15-17, 2009 in Gaithersburg, MD. The TDP workshop gathered subject matter experts to

Model Based Enterprise / Technical Data Package Summit Report

August 13, 2012
Author(s)
Joshua Lubell, Kenway K. Chen, John A. Horst, Simon P. Frechette, Paul J. Huang
This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations of a workshop held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in December of 2011. The purpose of the workshop was to identify challenges, research, and implementation

Model Based Enterprise for Manufacturing

July 1, 2011
Author(s)
Simon P. Frechette
A Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) is an organization that applies modeling and simulation technologies to integrate and manage its technical and business processes related to production and product lifecycle support. By using product and process models to

Development Life Cycle for Semantically Coherent Data Exchange Specification

December 1, 2008
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Katherine C. Morris, Simon P. Frechette
In enterprise integration, a data-exchange specification is an architectural artifact that evolves along with the business. Maintaining a coherent, data-exchange, semantic model is an important, yet non-trivial task. A coherent, semantic model of data-

User's Guide for the Quality of Design Testing Tool and the Content Checker

November 5, 2008
Author(s)
Katherine C. Morris, Simon P. Frechette, Puja Goyal, Joshua Lubell, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Salifou Sidi Malick, Nicolas Brayard, Severin Tixier
This document describes the operation and usage of the Quality of Design and the Content Checker Testing Tools. These tools were developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support people in developing standards for the

Development Life Cycle and Tools for Data Exchange Specification

May 19, 2008
Author(s)
Katherine C. Morris, Puja Goyal, Simon P. Frechette
In enterprise integration, a data exchange specification is an architectural artifact that evolves along with the business. Developing and maintaining a coherent semantic model for data exchange is an important, yet non-trivial, task. A coherent semantic

The State of Container Security Standards

October 17, 2007
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, Simon P. Frechette
As cargo container security is a critical component in the U.S. homeland security, the communication among people in a chain of custody of a container needs to be timely and effective. Since people in the container custody chain often use different

XML Schema Validation Process for CORE.GOV

December 1, 2004
Author(s)
KC Morris, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Simon P. Frechette, Joshua Lubell, Puja Goyal
Many integration projects today rely on shared semantic models based on standards represented using Extensible Mark up Language (XML) technologies. Shared semantic models typically evolve and require maintenance. In addition, to promote interoperability

Viewing Technologies for CAD Models

August 1, 2003
Author(s)
Michelle P. Steves, Simon P. Frechette
This report describes Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model-viewing technologies1 used to support CAD-model review and analysis. CAD model viewers are tools that allow engineers and other users to view CAD models from distributed locations, often using

Testing STEP-NC Implementations

October 1, 2002
Author(s)
Allison Barnard Feeney, Simon P. Frechette
STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data, ISO 10303) data for numerical control, or STEP-NC, is intended to provide full product and process data interoperability between computer-aided manufacturing systems and machine tool controllers

XML Representation of STEP Schemas and Data

February 1, 2002
Author(s)
Joshua Lubell, Simon P. Frechette
The first Technical Note in this series introduced the international standard ISO 10303, informally known as STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data). Subsequent Technical Notes discussed various issues faced by users of STEP and how the ISO