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Projects/Programs

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Model-Based Manufacturing Services

Ongoing
Manufacturing systems need to transform towards a new service-oriented architecture to benefit from new smart manufacturing technologies such as IIoT, AI, and Big Data Analytics. A service-oriented manufacturing system (SOMS) is a dynamic composition of networked manufacturing software and cyber

Modeling Methodology for Smart Manufacturing

Ongoing
Objective: Develop new modeling methodologies, guidelines, and software tools to enable manufacturers to more easily apply analytical methods to manufacturing operations and processes. Technical Idea: Manufacturers would realize great benefit were the costs of composing analytical models reduced

Monitoring, Diagnostics and Prognostics for Manufacturing Operations

Completed
Objective - Develop and deploy measurement science to promote the implementation, verification, and validation of advanced monitoring, diagnostic, and prognostic technologies to minimize unplanned downtime and optimize planned downtime in manufacturing operations. What is the technical idea

Multifunctional 3D Printable Polymer-Metal Composites

Ongoing
Recent advances in additive manufacturing (AM) have positioned metals and polymers as two key materials. Typically, AM of these two materials involves incompatible methods and conditions. The novel multifunctional polymer-metal composites in this project incorporate low-melting alloys with

Nanocalorimetry for Semiconductors and Semiconductor Process Metrology

Ongoing
In September 2022, NIST published a report titled Strategic Opportunities for U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing , which cited, among other challenges, the need to understand and improve heat dissipation and performance in advanced microelectronics. Specifically, there needs to be better measurements

NIST Automated Vehicles Program

Ongoing
Measurement science and standards are needed to support the safe and predictable operation of future automated vehicles (AVs), which have great potential to significantly impact our daily lives and improve the competitiveness of our economy. A FY22 NIST Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives

NIST Industrial Wireless 5G Testbed

Ongoing
The NIST 5G Industrial Wireless Testbed project aims to revolutionize industrial connectivity by deploying and evaluating the capabilities of 5 th generation (5G) wireless technology within an industrial setting. This initiative responds to the emerging demand for ultra-reliable, low-latency

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

Operations-driven Performance Measurement for Smart Manufacturing Systems

Ongoing
Objective: Develop and deploy standards, guidelines, and reference data for measuring the performance of manufacturing systems to inform the design and aid in analysis of factory improvements. Technical Idea: Manufacturers are adopting smart systems to drive gains in agility, productivity, quality

Perception Performance of Robotic Systems

Ongoing
Objective To develop measurement science for characterizing sensing and perception system performance to reduce the risks of adopting these technologies and to advance the agility, safety, and productivity of collaborative, industrial, and mobile robots. Technical Idea Over the past 5 years, the

Performance Assessment Framework for Robotic Systems

Completed
Objective: Enable manufacturers to assess and assure robot system assembly task performance by delivering a methodology and tools for characterizing and composing performance of perception, mobility, dexterity, and safety components. Technical Idea: The new technical idea is to compose assembly task

Performance of Collaborative Robot Systems

Ongoing
Objective: Deliver a suite of test methods, protocols, and information models to assess and assure that robots working collaboratively in human-robot and robot-robot teams will complete their assigned tasks safely and correctly while meeting their assembly performance objectives. Technical Idea: To

Performance of Emergency Response Robots

Ongoing
Objective To develop the measurement science necessary to quantitatively evaluate the capabilities of autonomous and remotely operated robotic systems along with the proficiency of remote operators and pilots for emergency response applications. Technical Idea Emergency responder missions can be

Performance of Emerging Technologies for Robotics

Ongoing
Objective To identify opportunities for and barriers to greater adoption of robotics by small manufacturers, and to establish the metrology bases needed for assessing, accepting, and advancing novel technologies that meet the current and emerging needs of small- and medium-sized manufacturers

Performance of Human-Robot Interaction

Ongoing
Objective To deliver a suite of datasets, benchmarking tools, test methods, protocols, metrics, standards, and information models to enable effective, human-robot collaboration in manufacturing, and advance interactive robot technologies to facilitate the safe and efficient teaming of people and

Point-of-Care Pharmaceutical Manufacturing & Precision Medicine

Ongoing
We are employing quality by design (QbD) and risk assessment (cause-and-effect) approaches to investigate production technologies ( e.g., drop on demand or inkjet printing platforms) and appropriate analytical control strategies for point-of-care manufacture of narrow therapeutic index drugs

Polymer Additive Manufacturing and Rheology

Ongoing
We are measuring the fundamental processes and material parameters that are critical to understanding and furthering polymers-based AM. These efforts will aid the AM ecosystem through better online monitoring capabilities and developing strategies for materials optimization. In situ measurements of

Precursor Material Qualification

Completed
To develop, utilize, and analyze methods of characterizing the precursor materials in additive manufacturing in both virgin and recycled states with the goal of advancing measurement science to benefit the AM community. The components of principal interest will include the rheological, size

Product Definitions for Smart Manufacturing

Completed
The Product Definitions for Smart Manufacturing project will deliver methods, protocols, and tools for developing, conformance testing, increasing user-awareness, and industrial adoption of product definition standards necessary for the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises. Smart

Product Digital Information Visualization and Exploration

Completed
Objective - To deliver standards, methods, and tools that improve the usability and maintainability of product lifecycle data for (i) engineering design-focused analytics and (ii) advanced visualization modalities that leverage spatial computing technologies. What is the new technical idea? The

Product Lifecycle Data Exploration and Visualization

Ongoing
With the continuing emergence of low-cost, lightweight, and powerful hardware at the edge, opportunities grow for advancing methods, standards, and software tools for data exploration and visualization in smart manufacturing systems. Small and medium-sized enterprises have limited resources to