Systems Engineering

News and Updates

NIST Seeks Inputs on its Draft Guide to Operational Technology Security

April 26, 2022

NIST has released its public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-82r3, Guide to Operational Technology (OT) Security. This is the third revision of NIST

NIST Releases Study on Blockchain and Related Technologies for Manufacturing Supply Chain Traceability

April 20, 2022

Manufacturing supply chains are increasingly susceptible to disruptions and are targets for bad actors seeking to steal proprietary information and/or sabotage

VTTI, NIST Provide Tool for Quantifying Automated Driving Conditions

February 16, 2022

A new online tool, the Operational Design Domain Element Quantification Prototype, was developed and made available for use by Virginia Tech Transportation

Projects and Programs

Systems Analysis Integration

Ongoing

Smart manufacturing system development and operations are difficult to manage because information about the systems and their analysis is expressed in redundant

Reliable, High Performance Industrial Wireless Systems: Wi-Fi and TSN

Ongoing

Smart Manufacturing Systems provide a vision of future manufacturing systems that incorporate highly dynamic physical systems, robust and responsive

Knowledge Extraction and Application

Ongoing

The Knowledge Extraction and Application (KEA) project will contribute to standards and test methods that normalize models, methods, and technologies for

Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things Testbed

Ongoing

A key challenge to progress in cyber-physical systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT) is the lack of robust platforms for experiment and testing, which

Publications

Refocusing the Barriers to Sustainability for Small and Medium Manufacturers

February 14, 2022

Author(s)

Xavier R. Escoto, Demsas Gebrehewot, KC Morris

Sustainable manufacturing practices are a necessary component of sustainable development. Current practices in a linear economy—produce, consume, discard—will

Translator from Extended SysML to Physical Interaction and Signal Flow Simulation Platforms, Version 1.1

September 22, 2021

Author(s)

Raphael Barbau, Conrad Bock, Mehdi Dadfarnia

The design of complex systems often requires engineers from multiple disciplines (mechanical, electrical, production, and so on) to communicate with each other

Verifying Executability of SysML Behavior Models Using Alloy Analyzer

August 24, 2021

Author(s)

Jeremy Doerr, Conrad Bock, Raphael Barbau

This report presents an approach to verifying executability of system behavior models by treating them as logical constraint problems solved using Alloy

Model of Operational Control of Discrete Event Logistics Systems (DELS)

July 8, 2021

Author(s)

Timothy A. Sprock, Conrad Bock

Operations management systems manage flows of work, resources, and information through production and logistics systems, ensuring the correct and efficient

Awards

Michael Brundage Honored by American Society of Mechanical Engineers for Leadership in Manufacturing

Michael P. Brundage, a resident of Bethesda, Md., and engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg