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National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan 2020

February 9, 2021
Author(s)
Heather Evans, Kristen K. Greene, William M. Healy, Elizabeth Hoffman, Kate Rimmer, Anna V. Sberegaeva, Neil M. Zimmerman
The 2020 National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan provides an analysis of key external factors that could impact NIST and the fulfillment of its mission in coming years. The analyses were conducted through four separate lenses

Technology Readiness Levels for Randomized Bin Picking, Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) 2012 Workshop, Special Session

February 8, 2021
Author(s)
Jeremy Marvel, Roger D. Eastman, Geraldine S. Cheok, Kamel S. Saidi, Tsai H. Hong, Elena R. Messina, Bob Bollinger, Paul Evans, Joyce Guthrie, Eric Hershberger, Carlos Martinez, Karen McNamara, James Wells
The special session on Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) for Randomized Bin Picking was held during the morning session of the 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) workshop, 21 March, 2012. The stated objective of the special session

END TO END COLLABORATION TO TRANSFORM BIOPHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT & MANUFACTURING

January 22, 2021
Author(s)
John Erickson, Jeffrey Baker, Shawn Barrett, Ciaran Brady, Mark Brower, Ruben Carbonell, Tim Charlebois, Jon Coffman, Lisa Connell-Crowley, Michael Coolbaugh, Eric Fallon, Eric Garr, Christopher Gillespie, Roger Hart, Allison Haug, Gregg Nyberg, Michael Phillips, David Pollard, Maen Qadan, Irina Ramos, Kelley Rogers, Gene Schaefer, Jason Walther, Kelvin Lee
An ambitious ten-year collaborative program is described to invent, design, demonstrate and support commercialization of integrated biopharmaceutical manufacturing technology that will transform the industry. This capability will enable improved control

Influence of bearing ball recirculation on error motions of linear axes

January 10, 2021
Author(s)
Gregory W. Vogl, Kyle F. Shreve, Alkan Donmez
For positioning systems utilizing linear guides and trucks with recirculating balls, a method is presented that uses the measured total error motions and the measured phase of ball loops within trucks to determine the influence of each ball loop on the

Measuring Manufacturing’s Significance in the USA

December 16, 2020
Author(s)
Katherine C. Morris, Douglas S. Thomas
Economic value added is a primary metric for measuring manufacturing activity; however, this metric and others exclude approximately half of the economic activity necessary for producing manufactured goods. With the recent disruption in the supply of goods

Merging Geospatial echnologies with cross reality in the context of smart manufacturing systems

December 16, 2020
Author(s)
Raffaele de Amicis, William Z. Bernstein, Johannes Scholz, Rafael Radkowski, Bruno Simoes, Joshua Lieberman, Eric Prather
It is widely acknowledged that geospatial information has immense applicability across a vast spectrum of human endeavors. Examples include oil and gas exploration, energy management, smart city engineering, weather forecasting, tracking, aviation

Realizing Environmentally-Conscious Manufacturing in the Post-COVID-19 Era

December 16, 2020
Author(s)
Nancy Diaz-Elsayed, Julius Schoop, KC Morris
The unique and unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in significant disruptions to diverse manufacturing supply chains across the globe. The negative economic impacts of these unexpected and rapid changes in demand and available

Technical Language Processing: Unlocking Maintenance Knowledge

December 11, 2020
Author(s)
Michael P. Brundage, Thurston B. Sexton, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Alden A. Dima, Sarah Lukens
Out-of-the-box natural-language processing (NLP) pipelines need re-imagining to understand and meet the requirements of the engineering sector. Text-based documents account for a significant portion of data collected during the life cycle of asset

Runtime Verification of the ARIAC Competition: Can a Robot be Agile and Safe at the Same Time?

November 27, 2020
Author(s)
Angelo Ferrando, Zeid Kootbally, Pavlo Piliptchak, Rafael Cardoso, Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael Fisher
ARIAC (Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition) is a robotic competition which aims to advance robotic agility in industry. Participants in this competition are required to implement a robot control system to overcome agility challenges in a

An Analysis of the IOF Architecture – a Systems Integration Perspective

November 20, 2020
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Minchul Lee, Megan Katsumi
The Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF) describes its ontology architecture in the its charter wherein different types of ontologies are identified. These types ontologies are described at high-level in the charter. Their relationships and purposes are not

Formalizing Performance Evaluation of Mobile Manipulator Robots using CTML

November 20, 2020
Author(s)
Omar Aboul-Enein, Yaping Jing, Roger V. Bostelman
Computation Tree Measurement Language (CTML) is a newly developed formal language that offers simultaneous model verification and performance evaluation measures. While the theory behind CTML has been established, the language has yet to be tested on a

DIGITAL TWIN FOR SMART MANUFACTURING: THE PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE

November 18, 2020
Author(s)
Maja Barring, Guodong Shao, Bjorn Johansson
The manufacturing sector is experiencing a technological paradigm shift, where new digital technologies can help digitalize product design, production systems, and manufacturing processes and generate more data. One of the essential technology concepts for

Annual Report on U.S. Manufacturing Industry Statistics: 2020

October 27, 2020
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S. industry compares to other countries, (2) the trends in the domestic industry, and (3) the

Prognostics and Health Management to Improve Resilient Manufacturing

October 23, 2020
Author(s)
Michael P. Brundage, Brian A. Weiss
Manufacturers need to be resilient to effectively mitigate substantial disruptions to manufacturing operations so they may remain competitive. Disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic have caused manufacturers to experience new challenges

Cognitive Automation and its Impact on Additive Manufacturing

October 15, 2020
Author(s)
Albert T. Jones, Zhuo Yang, Yan Lu
The English word manufacturing firstly appeared in 1683 and it was derived from Latin manu factus, meaning making by hand. For more than thousands of years now, and four Industrial Revolutions, the physical, and mostly mechanical processes, associated with

Cybersecurity Framework Version 1.1 Manufacturing Profile

October 7, 2020
Author(s)
Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Michael Pease, Jeffrey Cichonski, John McCarthy
This document provides the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Version 1.1 implementation details developed for the manufacturing environment. The "Manufacturing Profile" of the CSF can be used as a roadmap for reducing cybersecurity risk for manufacturers that

Open Standards for Flexible Discrete Manufacturing in the Model-Based Enterprise

September 23, 2020
Author(s)
Mark White, Eric Holterman, Tim Bakker, Larry Maggiano
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing is currently constructing an open, standards-based flexible manufacturing cell. The manufacturing cell must take in a product definition, machine the defined part, inspect it, rework as necessary, and

Reliable, High-Performance Wireless Systems for Factory Automation

September 18, 2020
Author(s)
Kang B. Lee, Richard Candell, Hans-Peter Bernhard, Dave Cavalcanti, Zhibo Pang, Inaki Val
Wireless has emerged as an enabling technology to improve operational flexibility and efficiency for factory automation. The latest wireless technology, standardization activities, and research issues were explored and discussed through the examination of
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