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Manufacturing

Manufacturing systems design & analysis

News and Updates

2025 MBE & QIF Summit

MBE & QIF Summit 2025

The 2025 MBE Summit was hosted at MxD headquarters in Chicago, IL, April 15 - 18. NIST's Rosemary Astheimer organized technical content in conjunction with the...

Events

Projects and Programs

Advanced Machines, Monitoring, and Control for Additive Manufacturing

Ongoing
Objective To develop, integrate, and implement real-time feedback and other advanced process control techniques using monitoring tools such as high-speed imaging and diffraction for single- and multi-laser AM systems, enabling improved productivity, part quality, and material performance. Technical...
SMcps

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...

Data Analytics for Smart Manufacturing Systems

Ongoing
Objective: Develop standards, software tools, methodologies, and guidelines to enable small and medium enterprises to apply data analytics services to improve decision-making and performance in smart manufacturing systems. Technical Idea: Manufacturers need enhanced decision-support tools that would...
2D Material Electronic Test

Electronic Material Characterization

Ongoing
Manufacturing optimized devices that incorporate newly-emerging materials requires predictable performance throughout device lifetimes. Unexpected degradation in device performance, sometimes leading to failure, is often traceable to poor material reliability. Reliability is rooted in the stability...

Publications

Manufacturing USA Program Strategic Plan

Author(s)
Robert Rudnitsky, Said Jahanmir, Zahraha Brunner, Kelley Rogers, Michael Molnar, Mai Tran
The Manufacturing USA Program Strategic Plan outlines the program's vision, mission, goals, and objectives for the next four years and describes how the Program...

Software

CMS Evaluation Flowchart

SimPROCESD

SimPROCESD (or Simulated-Production Resource for Operations & Conditions Evaluations to Support Decision-making) is a discrete-event simulation package written
Calculator

Smart Investment Tool

This tool calculates metrics for investment analysis documented in NIST Advanced manufacturing Series 200-5. It calculates net present value, internal rate of
CostGuide - Metal Plate

MCG for Supply Chain Statistics

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

Tools and Instruments

Awards

SME Fellow

Albert J. Wavering III is the acting deputy director of National Institute of Standards & Technology's Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory. There, he is responsible for laboratory operations and assists the director in establishing its strategic...

Eswaran Subrahmanian AAAS Fellow

For distinguished contribution to design theory and methodology and its implications for design support systems & for bridging theory,practice and education in engineering design
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