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Software to Report Product and Manufacturing Information in QIF Files

December 4, 2019
Author(s)
Robert R. Lipman
The QIF PMI Report (QPR) software generates a spreadsheet from a Quality Information Framework (QIF) file containing Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI). QIF is a unified XML framework standard for computer-aided quality QIF systems, available free

Helping Robots Stay on Target

December 2, 2019
Author(s)
Elena R. Messina, Jeremy Marvel
For decades, many manufacturers have counted on robots to tirelessly produce parts of predictable quality. One of the key attributes of robots is their repeatability, which means that their tool tip will return to the same pre-programmed location with a

CHALLENGES IN REPRESENTING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES FOR SYSTEMATIC SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS - WORKSHOP ON JUNE 21, 2018

November 27, 2019
Author(s)
Arvind Shankar Raman, Dustin Harper, Karl Haapala, Barbara S. Linke, William Z. Bernstein, KC Morris
A workshop on Challenges in Representing Manufacturing Processes for Systematic Sustainability Assessments, jointly sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, ASTM International, the American

On Practice and Theory of Constructive Composite Geometry and Topology

November 25, 2019
Author(s)
Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Allison Barnard Feeney, Vijay Srinivasan
This paper synthesizes a theory from industrial best practices codified in recent standards. Recent editions of ASME and ISO standards codify the evolving industrial best practices in defining and modeling the information about products made from fibrous

Nestor: A Tool for Natural Language Annotation of Short Texts

November 1, 2019
Author(s)
Michael Brundage, Rachael Sexton
Nestor is a software tool that annotates natural language CSV (comma-separated variable) files, with a UTF-8 encoding, using a process called tagging [1]. The outputted annotated datasets (as either a CSV or .h5 file) can be used for different analysis

Annual Manufacturing Review: 2019

October 31, 2019
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
This report provides an overview of the US manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of US manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the US industry compares to other countries, (2) the trends in the domestic industry, and (3) the industry trends

Network Charter: Manufacturing USA Program (Rev October 2019)

October 4, 2019
Author(s)
Michael F. Molnar
Under the authority of the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act (RAMI) of 2014, the Secretary of Commerce established the Network for Manufacturing Innovation, generally called the Manufacturing USA network. The network, along with its

Potential Use of Lightweight Aggregate (LWA) Produced from Bottom Coal Ash for Internal Curing of Concrete Systems

October 1, 2019
Author(s)
Mohammad Balapour, Weijin Zhao, Edward Garboczi, Nay Ye Oo, Sabrina Spatari, Grace Hsuan, Peter Billen, Yaghoob Farnam
This study evaluates the potential use of a novel lightweight aggregate (LWA), spherical porous reactive aggregate (SPoRA), which is produced from waste coal bottom ash, for internal curing of concrete. Engineering properties of SPoRA required for concrete

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level Example Implementations Guide: Volume 1 - General Implementation Guidance

September 30, 2019
Author(s)
Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski, Neeraj Shah, Wesley Downard
This guide provides general implementation guidance (Volume 1) and example proof-of-concept solutions demonstrating how available open-source and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products could be implemented in manufacturing environments to satisfy the

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level Example Implementations Guide: Volume 2 - Process-based Manufacturing System Use Case

September 30, 2019
Author(s)
Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski, Neeraj Shah, Wesley Downard
This guide provides example proof-of-concept solutions demonstrating how available open-source and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products could be implemented in process-based manufacturing environments to satisfy the requirements in the Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level Example Implementations Guide: Volume 3 - Discrete-based Manufacturing System Use Case

September 30, 2019
Author(s)
Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski, Neeraj Shah, Wesley Downard
This guide provides example proof-of-concept solutions demonstrating how available open-source and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products could be implemented in discrete-based manufacturing environments to satisfy the requirements in the Cybersecurity

Agreement Behavior of Isolated Annotators for Maintenance Work-Order Data Mining

September 27, 2019
Author(s)
Emily Hastings, Thurston Sexton, Michael Brundage, Melinda Hodkiewicz
Maintenance work orders (MWOs) are an integral part of the maintenance workflow. These documents allow technicians to capture vital aspects of a maintenance job: observed symptoms, potential causes, solutions implemented, etc. These MWOs have often been

Categorization Errors for Data Entry in Maintenance Work-Orders

September 24, 2019
Author(s)
Thurston B. Sexton, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Michael P. Brundage
In manufacturing, there is a significant push toward the digitization of processes and decision making, by increasing the level of automation and networking via cyber-physical systems, and machine learning methods that can parse useful patterns from these

Manufacturing USA Annual Report, FY 2018

September 17, 2019
Author(s)
Robert G. Rudnitsky, Michael F. Molnar, Frank W. Gayle, Hong Liang, Lisa J. Fronczek, Said Jahanmir, Zahraha S. Brunner
This annual report documents the progress of the Manufacturing USA program in meeting its goals and describes the major accomplishments of the Manufacturing USA institutes in fiscal year 2018.

Design-for-Cost – An Approach for Distributed Manufacturing Cost Estimation

September 2, 2019
Author(s)
Minchul Lee, Boonserm Kulvatunyou
Researches have shown that design changes cost more in later stages of product development. Therefore, companies adopt Design-for-X methods to optimize product designs from many aspects in the early design stage. Despite such efforts, they often encounter

Integrated Operations Management for Distributed Manufacturing

August 28, 2019
Author(s)
Timothy A. Sprock, Michael E. Sharp, William Z. Bernstein, Michael P. Brundage, Moneer M. Helu, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr.
In traditional manufacturing operations management systems, the four pillars of ISA-95 (production, quality, maintenance, inventory) are each implemented as separate software systems. Each system independently manages its own data, operational decision

Securing, Authenticating, and Visualizing Data-Links for Manufacturing Enterprises

August 26, 2019
Author(s)
William Z. Bernstein, Sylvere Krima, Laetitia Monnier, Mehdi Shahid
We introduce a prototype implementation of the Securing and Authenticating Data-Links (SADL) Interface, which interacts with a manufacturing handle registry to facilitate traceability of digital resources for engineering projects. This paper outlines the
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