Systems Engineering

Projects and Programs

Knowledge Extraction and Application for Smart Manufacturing Operations Management

The Knowledge Extraction and Application for Smart Manufacturing Operations Management (KEA4SMOM) project will contribute to standards and test methods that

Smart Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis Program

Deliver measurement science, standards and protocols, and tools needed to design and analyze SMS based on a cyber-physical infrastructure for digital and

Agri-Food Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Integration

The U.S. agriculture sector extends beyond the farm business to include a range of farm-related industries. The largest of these are food service and food

Publications

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

Online Improvement of Condition-based Maintenance Policy via Monte Carlo Tree Search

June 30, 2021

Author(s)

Michael Hoffman, Eunhye Song, Michael Brundage

Often in manufacturing systems scenarios arise where the demand for maintenance exceeds the capacity of maintenance resources. This leads to the problem of

Qualifying Evaluations from Human Operators: Integrating Sensor Data with Natural Language Logs

June 28, 2021

Author(s)

Michael Brundage, Michael Sharp, radu pavel

Even in the increasingly connected world of smart manufacturing and the Industrial Internet Of Things (IIOT), there will always be a need for human operators

Towards a Digital Depot to Support Sustainable ManufacturingDuring Crisis Response

June 23, 2021

Author(s)

KC Morris, Nancy Diaz-Elsayed, Julius Schoop

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed new challenges to maintaining sustainability in our manufacturing operations. With such high variability in demand for

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