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Energy Efficiency Analysis for a Casting Production System

December 14, 2011
Author(s)
Jonatan K. Berglund, John L. Michaloski, Swee K. Leong, Guodong Shao, Frank H. Riddick, Jorge Arinez, Stephan Biller
A growing number of manufacturing industries are initiating efforts to address sustainability issues. A study by the National Association of Manufacturers indicated that the manufacturing sector currently accounts for over a third of all energy consumed in

Electrochemical Micromachining of NiTi Shape Memory Alloys with Ultrashort Voltage Pulses

December 8, 2011
Author(s)
Joseph Maurer, John Hudson, Steven E. Fick, Thomas P. Moffat, Gordon A. Shaw
Electrochemical micromachining (ECMM) with ultrashort voltage pulses has been used to fabricate microstructures on a NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA). Because of its unique properties, NiTi is a desirable material for use in various applications including

NON-CONTACT DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENTS OF BIPOLAR FUEL CELL PLATES

November 15, 2011
Author(s)
Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Wei Ren, Dennis S. Everett, Eric S. Stanfield, Theodore D. Doiron
Non-contact dimensional measurement of fuel cell plates is critical to the eventual rapid manufacture by supporting in-process measurement and control. This need has been identified by the Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Program, and by numerous

Capacitive readout technique for studies of dissipation in GaN nanowire mechanical resonators

November 11, 2011
Author(s)
Kristine A. Bertness, Joshua R. Montague, Norman A. Sanford, Victor Bright, Charles T. Rogers
A variable-temperature, homodyne reflectometry measurement technique for detecting nanoscale mechanical motion has recently been developed. We have extended this technique to make the first all-electrical measurements of an ensemble of as-grown, c-axis

Metamodels towards Improved Domain Modeling for Semantic Inferencing

October 3, 2011
Author(s)
Paul W. Witherell, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Jae H. Lee, Sudarsan Rachuri
As information requirements have increased, domain models have become increasing complex and difficult to manage. Though domain-specific languages have been developed for domain experts, increasing their expressivity and decreasing their complexity, their

ROADMAPPING MANUFACTURING NEEDS FOR MEMS TECHNOLOGIES

September 30, 2011
Author(s)
Michael Gaitan, Karen Lightman
This report summarizes issues in manufacturing from the 2011 iNEMI MEMS Technology Roadmap, and shares the authors’ observations from the 2011 MEMS Industry Group’s (MIG) Workshop on Device Testing and the 2012 ITRS MEMS Technology Working Group’s (TWG)

Development of the Metrology and Imaging of Cellulose Nanocrystals

September 19, 2011
Author(s)
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, John A. Dagata, Natalia Farkas, Bin Ming, Ryan Wagner, Arvind Raman, Robert J. Moon, Ronald Sabo, Theodore H. Wegner, James Beecher
The development of metrology for nanoparticles is a significant challenge. Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) are one group of nanoparticles that have high potential economic value but present substantial challenges to the development of the measurement science

Review of Current Progress in Nanometrology with Helium Ions

September 19, 2011
Author(s)
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Bin Ming, Charles Archie
Scanning electron microscopy has been employed as an imaging and measurement tool for more than 50 years and it continues as a primary tool in many research and manufacturing facilities across the world. A new challenger to this work is the helium ion

Modeling and Simulation of Incident Management for Homeland Security Applications

September 1, 2011
Author(s)
Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings
The purpose of this document is to provide: 1) a compendium of information pertaining to incident management modeling and simulation, and 2) a foundation for the establishment of a modeling and simulation technical interest group whose focus is information

A Decision-Guided Energy Management Framework for Sustainable Manufacturing

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Alexander Brodsky, Jorge Arinez , Daniel A. Menasce , Paul Ammann
A growing number of manufacturing industries are initiating efforts to address sustainability issues. According to the National Association of Manufacturers, the manufacturing sector currently accounts for about one third of all energy consumed in the

Integration of Life Cycle Inventories Incorporating Manufacturing Unit Processes

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Mark B. Campanelli, Jonatan K. Berglund, Sudarsan Rachuri
Sustainable manufacturing (SM) concerns the manufacture of products with regard to environmental, social, and economic impacts over the entire life cycle. With a primary focus on environmental concerns, life cycle assessment (LCA) can support SM practices

TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL IMPLEMENTATION OF EMERGING SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES

August 31, 2011
Author(s)
Paul W. Witherell
In this paper, we identify five main obstacles in the development of an industry-ready application of semantic knowledge management systems and discuss how each of these challenges can be addressed. These obstacles include the ease of new knowledge

A Prototype IEEE 1451.4 Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and Actuators

August 19, 2011
Author(s)
Yuyin Song, David M. Westbrook, Kang B. Lee
Analog transducers (sensors or actuators) are widely used in industry. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1451.4 standard defines a mixed-mode communication protocol and the Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) formats for

GaN Nanowires Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

August 1, 2011
Author(s)
Kristine A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford, Albert Davydov
The unique properties of GaN nanowires grown by molecular beam epitaxy are reviewed. These properties include the absence of residual strain, exclusion of most extended defects, long photoluminescence lifetime, low surface recombination velocity,and high

Large-Area Overhead Manipulator for Access of Fields

July 22, 2011
Author(s)
Jeffrey W. White, Roger V. Bostelman
Multi-axis, cable-driven manipulators have evolved over many years providing large area suspended platform access, programmability, relatively rigid and flexibly- positioned platform control and full six degree of freedom (DOF) manipulation of sensors and
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