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Manufacturing

Manufacturing quality assurance

News and Updates

2025 MBE & QIF Summit

2025 MBE & QIF Summit Update

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NIST Engineer Presents at Women in Manufacturing Summit

NIST Engineer Presents at Women in Manufacturing Summit

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NIST Engineers Support Vendor Implementations of STEP to Evolve Digital Manufacturing

NIST Engineers Support Vendor Implementations of STEP to Evolve Digital Manufacturing

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Projects and Programs

Digital Thread for Manufacturing

Ongoing
Purpose and Goals This project will provide research advances in product-definition standardization, conformance testing, and cybersecurity of data assets. Digital thread standards capabilities and infrastructure - Smart connected manufacturing requires the effective communication of the product
Photograph of gas cylinders

Audit of EPA Protocol Gas Suppliers

Ongoing
Protocol gas standards are employed in measurements made for compliance purposes; one of the major uses is for measurements of regulated gaseous species from stationary source emitters, i.e., stack gases. Many of these stationary sources are regulated through the Cap and Trade program; therefore
NIST PS1

NIST PS1 Primary Standard for quantitative NMR (Benzoic Acid)

Completed
With explicit SI linkage, the overall impact of this apical reference material is profound—this primary standard, as well as forthcoming members of its class, provides technology transfer of chemical purity realization to the commercial sector for characterization of many thousands of organic

Additive Manufacturing Part Qualification

Completed
Objective To develop and deploy test methods and protocols, standard test artifacts, exemplar data, data processing tools, and automation tools that create robust post-process measurements and non-destructive testing to enable qualification of AM parts by manufacturers. What is the Problem? To