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Manufacturing systems design & analysis

News and Updates

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

Extended Digital Thread

Ongoing
The Extended Digital Thread (EDT) project will deliver standards, methods, protocols and tools to enable interoperability of significantly more product and

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

Publications

Maintenance and Operations of Manufacturing Digital Twins

Author(s)
Alp Akcay, Stephan Biller, Boon Ping Gan, Christoph Laroque, Guodong Shao
Digital twins have become an important element in smart manufacturing. As any other product, digital twins also have a lifecycle, starting from specifying the

Software

SimPROCESD

SimPROCESD is a discrete event simulation package written in Python that is designed to model the behavior of discrete manufacturing systems. Specifically, it

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

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