Manufacturing Portal - OverviewProviding technical support to the nation's manufacturing industries as they strive to out-innovate and outperform the international competition has always been one of NIST's top priorities. Innovation and manufacturing work hand in hand. An innovation ecosystem has many interrelated elements—entrepreneurs, skilled workers, tax policies, to name a few. But without manufacturing, the economic magic of innovation is not nearly as potent and its benefits to the nation are not nearly as great. Programs and Projects
Dexterous Manipulation for Part Grasping and Assembly
This project will investigate new measurement science to gauge the operational characteristics of manipulation at both the macro and micro … more
Materials Standards for Additive Manufacturing
This project provides the measurement science for the additive manufacturing industry to measure material properties in a standardized … more
Fundamental Measurement Science for Additive Processes Project
Additive manufacturing (AM) processes have great potential for making high-value, complex, individually-customized parts, but several technical … more
Sustainability of Unit Manufacturing Processes Project
To advance sustainable manufacturing practices and promote resource efficiency, U.S. industries need reliable measurement methods to evaluate a … more
MEMS Measurement Science and Standards
Our goal is to provide technical leadership in R&D for the MEMS measurement infrastructure essential to improving U.S. economic … more
Optical Methods for 3-D Nanostructure Metrology
We develop new approaches to optical microscopy and electromagnetic modeling to enable improved metrology of nanoscale structures with dimensions … more Instruments
Robotics Test Facility
Located on the NIST Gaithersburg campus, the Robotics Test Facility – also known as Building 207 – is a laboratory for … more
Aperture area measurement facility
NIST has established an absolute aperture area measurement facility for circular and near-circular apertures use in radiometric instruments. The … more
Advanced Manufacturing Test Bed
The NIST robot test bed is located in the NIST machine shops on the main campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It serves as a resource for research in … more Software
STEP File Analyzer
The STEP File Analyzer is a software tool that generates a spreadsheet from a STEP (ISO 10303 –STandard for Exchange of Product model … more
STEP Class Library (SCL)
The NIST STEP Class Library (SCL) is a set of C++ class libraries which are capable of representing information conforming to the EXPRESS (ISO … more
Expect
* Download Expect source from SourceForge * Download Expect binaries from ActiveState * Expect Homepage Expect is a tool for automating … more
Exercise Control System
The Systems Integration Division's (SID) Manufacturing & Modeling Simulation Group (MSG) worked with San Francisco Communications to … more
DEXML
DEXML is a tool based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to aid in specifying and implementing data exchange specifications (known as DEXs) … more |
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