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Additive Manufacturing: A Trans-disciplinary Experience

July 20, 2016
Author(s)
Paul W. Witherell, Albert W. Jones, Yan Lu
Traditional manufacturing has long permitted disciplines to operate in isolation: with designers, material suppliers, and manufactures often able to function independently towards the singular goal of creating a product. As products have become

Towards a Lifecycle Information Framework and Technology in Manufacturing

July 14, 2016
Author(s)
Thomas D. Hedberg, Allison Barnard Feeney, Moneer M. Helu, Jaime A. Camelio
Industry has been chasing the dream of integrating and linking data across the product lifecycle and enterprises for decades. However, industry has been challenged by the fact that the context in which data is used varies based on the function in the

Mobile Manipulator Performance Measurement Towards Manufacturing Assembly Tasks

July 12, 2016
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, Sebti Foufou, Steven A. Legowik, Tsai H. Hong
Mobile manipulator performance measurement research is relatively minimal as compared to that of robot arms. Measurement methods, such as optical tracking systems, are useful for measuring the performances of mobile manipulators, although at a much higher

Model-based engineering for the integration of manufacturing systems with advanced analytics

July 10, 2016
Author(s)
David Lechevalier, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Sudarsan Rachuri, Sebti Foufou, Yung-Tsun Lee
To employ data analytics effectively and efficiently on manufacturing systems, engineers and data scientists need to collaborate closely to bring their domain knowledge together. In this paper, we introduce a domain-specific modeling approach to integrate

Implementing the ISO 15746 Standard for Chemical Process Optimization

July 3, 2016
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Peter O. Denno, Albert T. Jones, Yan Lu
Integrating advanced process control solutions with optimization (APC-O) solutions, within any factory, enables more efficient production processes. Currently, vendors who provide the software applications that implement control solutions are isolated and

Technical Data Packages (TDPs) from the Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed

July 1, 2016
Author(s)
Thomas D. Hedberg, Moneer M. Helu, Allison Barnard Feeney
Data is collected from the Manufacturing Lab using the MTConnect standard. That data is aggregated and published internally and externally of NIST via web services. Three channels of data dissemination are available or becoming available from the SMS Test

Survey of Research for Performance Measurement of Mobile Manipulators

June 30, 2016
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman, Tsai H. Hong, Jeremy A. Marvel
This survey provides the basis for developing research in the area of mobile manipulator performance measurement, an area that has relatively few research articles, as com-pared to other mobile manipulator research areas. The survey begins with a

Promoting Model-Based Definition to Establish a Common Information Model

June 28, 2016
Author(s)
Shawn P. Ruemler, Kyle E. Zimmerman, Nathan W. Hartman, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Allison Barnard Feeney
The manufacturing industry is evolving and starting to use 3D models as the central knowledge artifact for product data and product definition, or what is known as Model-based Definition (MBD). The Model-based Enterprise (MBE) uses MBD as a way to

Automating Asset Knowledge with MTConnect

June 27, 2016
Author(s)
John L. Michaloski, Frederick M. Proctor, Sid Venkatesh, Sidney Ly, Martin Manning
In order to maximize assets, manufacturers should use real-time knowledge garnered from ongoing and continuous collection and evaluation of factory-floor machine status data. In discrete parts manufacturing, factory machine monitoring has been difficult

Framework for Standardization of Simulation Integrated Production Planning

June 15, 2016
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Bjoern J. Johansson
Production planning is a complex problem that is typically decomposed into decisions carried out at different control levels. Production planning methods employed often assume a static environment; therefore, the plans developed may not be feasible if shop

Virtual Factory Based Data Analytics

June 4, 2016
Author(s)
Sanjay Jain, Guodong Shao, Seungjun Shin
The concept of a virtual factory representation and its use to support data analytics in multiple ways in manufacturing environment are proposed. The proposed virtual factory when implemented can facilitate improvements in manufacturing operations through

Interoperability: linking design and tolerancing with metrology

June 2, 2016
Author(s)
Ed Morse, Saeed Heysiattalab, Allison Barnard Feeney, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr.
On October 30, 2014 the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved QIF v 2.0 (Quality Information Framework, version 2.0) as an American National Standard. Subsequently in early 2016 QIF version 2.1 was approved. This paper describes how the QIF

Methods and Tools for Performance Assurance of Smart Manufacturing Systems

June 2, 2016
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Katherine C. Morris, Senthilkumaran Kumaraguru
The emerging concept of smart manufacturing systems is defined in part by the introduction of new technologies that are promoting rapid and widespread information flow within the manufacturing system and surrounding its control. These systems can deliver

Recommendations for Autonomous Industrial Vehicle Performance Standards

May 31, 2016
Author(s)
Roger V. Bostelman
A workshop was held at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, called: "Autonomous Industrial Vehicles: From the Laboratory to the Factory Floor." Nine research papers were presented followed by a discussion session summarized in this

TOWARDS BUSINESS PROCESS CATALOG FOR CLOUD-ENABLED SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES

May 31, 2016
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Miroslav Ljubicic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Conrad Leiva, Scott Nieman, Zoran Marjanovic
Advances in cloud-enabled service-oriented architectures have caused a resurgence of industry interest in business process catalog as a vehicle for establishing shared references for collaborative business processes. With this paper, we start to explore

Towards Annotations and Product Definitions for Additive Manufacturing

May 20, 2016
Author(s)
Paul W. Witherell, Gaurav Ameta, Jennifer Herron
As AM is viewed more and more as a production-capable technology, the costs of complexity have become increasingly apparent in the form of information requirements. With design flexibilities come the need to capture and communicate complex shapes. In

Analysis and Optimization based on Reusable Knowledge Base of Process Performance Models

April 29, 2016
Author(s)
Alexander Brodsky, Guodong Shao, Mohan Krishnamoorthy, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Daniel Menasce?, Ronay Ak
In this paper, we propose an architectural design and software framework for fast development of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics solutions for dynamic production processes. The proposed architecture and framework will

STEP File Analyzer User's Guide (Version 3)

April 27, 2016
Author(s)
Robert R. Lipman
This guide describes how to use the STEP File Analyzer, a software tool that analyzes and generates a spreadsheet from a STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data) file. The spreadsheets simplify inspecting information in the STEP file at an
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