Telepresence: A New Paradigm for Industrial and Scientific Collaboration

Published

June 1, 1999

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek, Marylyn H. Bennett, N J. Zaluzec

Abstract

A portion of the mission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) is to improve and advance length metrology in aid of U.S. industry.  The successful development of a Collaboratory for Telepresence Microscopy (TPM) provides an important new tool to promote technology transfer in the areas of measurement technology.  NIST and Texas Instruments,  under the auspices of the National Automated Manufacturing Testbed (NAMT) and in collaboration with the University of Illinois (UIC) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have developed a collaboratory testbed to demonstrate the value of TPM within organizations having a large distributed manufacturing facility such as Texas Instruments (TI) and between scientific research organizations such as NIST, ANL, and UIC.  Large distributed manufacturing sites such as TI need rapid response when problems threaten to disrupt multi-million dollar production facilities.  This is particularly important when expertise needed to solve the problem or instrumentation is not locally present.  The resulting delays are inevitable and often costly.  Telepresence minimizes these delays.  Once a sample has been received by a research facility, collaborators from multiple remotely located sites can rapidly access the collaboratory from their respective locations and collaborate in real-time to solve the problem using only their desktop computers and connections to the Internet. This presentation demonstrates the power afforded by this technology.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of SPIE

Volume

3677

Conference Dates

March 15, 1999

Conference Location

Santa Clara, CA

Conference Title

Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control for Microlithography XIII, Bhanwar Singh, Editor

Pub Type

Conferences

Keywords

analytical electron microscopy, collaboratory, Internet, metrology, scanning electron microscope, telepresence, transmission electron microscope

Citation

Postek, M. , Bennett, M. and Zaluzec, N. (1999), Telepresence:  A New Paradigm for Industrial and Scientific Collaboration, Proceedings of SPIE, Santa Clara, CA (Accessed January 10, 2026)