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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

An Information Classification System for Life Cycle and Manufacturing Standards

August 18, 2014
Author(s)
Sarah Wolff, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, David Lechevalier, KC Morris
Sustainable manufacturing aims to increase efficiency and offset negative impacts throughout the life cycle of products. A myriad of standards pertaining to various aspects of a product's life cycle exist; however, it is often difficult for non-experts to

Sustainable Manufacturing Program Workshop Report

July 9, 2014
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri, Katherine C. Morris, Utpal Roy, David Dornfeld, Soundar Kumara
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Sustainable Manufacturing Program held a workshop on November 13-14, 2012, in Gaithersburg, MD. Dr. Shyam Sunder, Director of NIST’s Engineering Laboratory, initiated the workshop proceedings. In

REQUIREMENTS ANALYSES TO SUPPORT A MATERIAL INFORMATION MODEL FOR SUSTAINABILITY

November 21, 2013
Author(s)
Paul W. Witherell, Arvind Harinder, Katherine C. Morris
Materials, and therefore material selections, influence the sustainable impact of a product from beginning to end-of-life. With improved access to material information, product designers can attain newfound insight into the sustainability implications of

A Methodology for Handling Standards Terminology for Sustainable Manufacturing

October 30, 2013
Author(s)
Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, David J. Lechevalier, Katherine C. Morris, Sudarsan Rachuri
In order to develop the discipline of sustainable manufacturing, the language of discourse needs to be properly and clearly communicated, for both manufacturers and consumers. As a result a range of information standards that define the needed terminology

IDENTIFYING THE MATERIAL INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DECISION MAKING

August 7, 2013
Author(s)
Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Paul W. Witherell, Jae H. Lee, Katherine C. Morris, Sudarsan Rachuri
Materials play a central role in product manufacturing, contributing to each phase of product development in the form of either a component or process material. As the product revolves around materials, so does much of the product information. Material

NIST Ontological Visualization Interface for Standards: User’s Guide

August 1, 2013
Author(s)
David J. Lechevalier, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Katherine C. Morris, Sean Reidy, Sudarsan Rachuri
The NIST Ontological Visualization Interface for Standards (NOVIS) was developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide an interactive visual interface to the terminology used in a variety of standards related to

Sustainability through Lifecycle Synthesis of Material Information

April 19, 2013
Author(s)
Paul W. Witherell, Katherine C. Morris, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Jae H. Lee, Sudarsan Rachuri
The synthesis of material information across lifecycle stages will lay the foundation for a material information model to support sustainable decision making. This paper explores how material information is represented in select standards that address

XML Validation Website: A User's Guide

November 16, 2011
Author(s)
Julien C. Cuvillier, Katherine C. Morris
This report describes the XML Validation website which hosts a number of XML parsing tools that can be used to remotely validate XML schema files against the W3C XML Schema standard, and XML data files against their corresponding XML schemas. The first

Constraint Generator User's Guide

September 30, 2010
Author(s)
Salifou Sidi Malick, Matthew Molek, Katherine C. Morris
This document describes the Constraint Generator. The Constraint Generator is a tool developed at NIST to automate the generation of schematron scripts for an advance validation of XML documents. The tool allows the user to open an XSD schema, view a tree

A Framework for XML Schema Naming and Design Rules Development Tools

June 1, 2010
Author(s)
Katherine C. Morris
Many organizations are facing enormous challenges today in trying to integrate a wide range of software systems. These systems span the functional areas within an organization, as well as, the multitude of organizations and countries involved in a business

QOD Standalone Users Guide

December 16, 2009
Author(s)
Julien C. Cuvillier, Katherine C. Morris
This report describes installation and use of the XML Schema Quality of Design Standalone testing system, or QOD Standalone. QOD Standalone is one of several tools produced by NIST's XML Testbed project within the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division

Framework for XML Schema Naming and Design Rules Development Tools

July 9, 2009
Author(s)
Katherine C. Morris, Joshua Lubell, Salifou Sidi Malick
Manufacturing industry is facing an enormous challenge today in trying to integrate a wide range of systems. The systems span the functional areas of manufacturing, as well as, the multitude of organizations and countries involved in the manufacture of

NDRProfile Schema Version 1.0 User Guide

December 16, 2008
Author(s)
Joshua Lubell, Betty Harvey, Puja Goyal, Katherine C. Morris
The NDRProfile schema provides a common syntax for exchanging, managing, and reusing XML Schema naming and design rules (NDRs). NDRProfile, used by NIST's Quality of Design (QOD) application as a format for import and export of rule sets, is also useful

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

Implementing XML Schema Naming and Design Rules

June 1, 2006
Author(s)
Joshua Lubell, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Katherine C. Morris, Betty Harvey
We are building a methodology and tool kit for encoding XML schema Naming and Design Rules (NDRs) in a computer-interpretable fashion, enabling automated rule enforcement and improving schema quality. Through our experience implementing rules from various

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

XML Schema Design Quality Test Requirements

October 1, 2004
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, KC Morris
Consistent design of XML schema within an organization or single integration project can reduce the number and the severity of interoperability problems. In addition, this consistency makes the XML schema easier to extend, understand, implement, and

Development Life Cycle and Tools for XML Content Models

September 1, 2004
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, KC Morris, Jeong Buhwan, 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

Harmonized Conformance Testing for Product Data Managers

October 1, 2001
Author(s)
David Flater, KC Morris
The Testability of Interaction-Driven Manufacturing Systems project seeks to enhance the design-for-testability of specifications for manufacturing software interfaces, derive a test method that is usable for interaction-driven manufacturing systems in