Supply chain

News and Updates

2025 MBE & QIF Summit Registration Open

January 20, 2025 - April 6, 2025

The 2025 MBE & QIF Summit event is returning to MxD (Manufacturing x Digital) headquarters in Chicago, IL, April 15 - 17, 2025. Registration opened on January

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U.S. Department of Commerce Announces CHIPS Incentives Awards with Corning, Edwards Vacuum, and Infinera to Increase Domestic Production Capacity of Chips and Equipment Critical for U.S. Technological Leadership

January 17, 2025

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it finalized three separate awards under the CHIPS Incentives Program’s Funding Opportunity for Commercial

Biden-Harris Administration Announces CHIPS Incentives Award with Texas Instruments to Expand U.S. Capacity of Current-Generation and Mature-Node Chips

December 20, 2024

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce awarded Texas Instruments (TI) up to $1.61 billion in direct funding under

Events

Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit

Tue, Apr 8 - Fri, Apr 11 2025

The Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit is an annual event bringing together thought leaders, experts

Projects and Programs

Indoor Localization and Tracking

Completed

Please see the page that describes NIST work in this area.

Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things Program

Ongoing

Objective - Enable scalable, dependable design methods and reproducible performance measurement for effective and trustworthy (reliable, safe, secure, resilient and privacy-enhancing) cyber-physical systems and IoT, by means of new measurement science, advanced testing and assurance capabilities and

Supply Chain Traceability for Agri-Food Manufacturing

Completed

Objective - Develop and deploy new standards, tools, and guidelines for traceability and cybersecurity that increase trust among participants and customers of agri-food manufacturing supply chains. What is the technical idea? The new technical idea is to develop the measurement science basis for the

Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Foundations

Ongoing

Objective - To provide a common technical and conceptual foundation for CPS and IoT that enables conceptualization, realization and assurance across all domains, including a comprehensive and traceable methodology for meeting all stakeholder concerns throughout any systems engineering process and

Publications

The U.S. Plastics Recycling Economy: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities

October 30, 2024

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Joshua D. Kneifel, David Butry

This report builds upon NIST AMS 100-48 (Thomas 2022), which examined the economics of increased circularity in the economy, focusing on the processes, forces

Life-Cycle Analysis Datasets for Regionalized Plastic Pathways

February 1, 2024

Author(s)

Taemin Kim, Pahola Benavides, Joshua Kneifel, Kate Beers, Zifeng Lu, Troy Hawkins

The carbon intensity (CI) of producing five different resins – polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene

Annual Report on the U.S. Manufacturing Economy: 2023

November 2, 2023

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S

Agri-Food Supply Chain Traceability Supported by a Formal Ontology: A Grain Elevator to Processor Use Case

August 23, 2023

Author(s)

Farhad Ameri, Evan K. Wallace, Reid Yoder, Frank Riddick

Traceability of food products to their sources is critical for quick responses to food emergencies. However, having the complete and consistent information

Software

MCG for Supply Chain Statistics

July 11, 2019

The Manufacturing Cost Guide (MCG) is a tool that estimates industry statistics for the manufacturing supply chain based on economic input-output analysis. It

Awards

AIAG award

For substantial contribution and leadership on behalf of the automotive industry.