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Manufacturing

Supply chain

News and Updates

2025 MBE & QIF Summit

2025 MBE & QIF Summit Registration Open

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The 2025 MBE & QIF Summit event is returning to MxD (Manufacturing x Digital) headquarters in Chicago, IL, April 15 - 17, 2025. Registration will open January

Projects and Programs

Supply Chain Traceability for Agri-Food Manufacturing

Completed
Objective - Develop and deploy new standards, tools, and guidelines for traceability and cybersecurity that increase trust among participants and customers of agri-food manufacturing supply chains. What is the technical idea? The new technical idea is to develop the measurement science basis for the
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
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A measurement-based approach to 5G supply chain security

Ongoing
NIST is working with a multidisciplinary group of stakeholders to define both the cybersecurity standards for 5G and beyond hardware and to secure the supply chain through developing technology that can detect corrupted hardware before it is put in use.  For an overview of NIST cybersecurity and

Publications

Life-Cycle Analysis Datasets for Regionalized Plastic Pathways

Author(s)
Taemin Kim, Pahola Benavides, Joshua Kneifel, Kate Beers, Zifeng Lu, Troy Hawkins
The carbon intensity (CI) of producing five different resins – polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene

Software

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

Awards

AIAG award

For substantial contribution and leadership on behalf of the automotive industry.