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Manufacturing

Manufacturing quality assurance

News

NIST Researchers Present Tutorial on Discrete-Event Manufacturing Simulation Using Open-Source SimPROCESD Environment

NIST Researchers Present Tutorial on Discrete-Event Manufacturing Simulation Using Open-Source SimPROCESD Environment

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MBD & QIF Summit April 15 - 17 2025

Save the Date - 2025 MBE & QIF Summit April 15-17, 2025

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NIST Engineers Lead and Present at 2024 MBE & QIF Summit

NIST Engineers Lead and Present at 2024 MBE & QIF Summit

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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

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

AM Machine and Process Control Methods for Additive Manufacturing

Completed
Objective Develop algorithms, methods and standard protocols for Additive Manufacturing (AM) process control, and implement it with software and hardware tools for open control of AM systems to enable more flexible process optimization by manufacturers. What is the Technical Idea? Additively

Data Integration and Management for Additive Manufacturing

Completed
Objective Data plays the most critical role in linking AM lifecycle and value chain activities and streamlining the AM development process. While the AM data from a single build is essential for establishing part traceability, when methodically collected, the full processing history of thousands of