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Strategic Plan for the Manufacturing USA Program

October 29, 2024
Author(s)
Robert G. Rudnitsky, Clifton Ray, Said Jahanmir
This document is the triennial strategic plan for the Manufacturing USA Program, as required by the program's authorizing statute. This strategic plan addresses the role of the Manufacturing USA institutes in developing advanced manufacturing technology

Digital Twins for Advanced Manufacturing: The Standardized Approach

October 26, 2024
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Deogratias Kibira, Simon P. Frechette
Recently, digital twins are becoming more prevalent in a wide range of industries such as manufacturing, construction, smart city, healthcare, business for various purposes including observing, predicting, optimizing, and controlling. However, because

Microstructure and mechanical properties of laser powder bed fusion Ti-6Al-4V after HIP treatments with varied temperatures and cooling rates

October 22, 2024
Author(s)
Nicholas Derimow, Jake Benzing, Howard Joress, Austin McDannald, Ping Lu, Frank DelRio, Newell Moser, Matthew Connolly, Alec Saville, Orion Kafka, Chad Beamer, Ryan Fishel, Chris Hadley, Nikolas Hrabe
This work investigated non-standard HIP cycles for PBF-L Ti-6Al-4V and characterized microstructure and tensile properties to compare between material that originated from the same build. For 920 °C, faster cooling rates (100 °C/min, 2000 °C/min) were

Roadmap to Strengthen the U.S. Manufacturing Supply Chain via Digital Thread Technology

October 15, 2024
Author(s)
Eric Holterman, Dennis Brandl, Benjamin Standfield, James Wilson, Nima Yazdanpanah, Jim Fritz, Michael Corsello, Barbara Boyan, John Hagwood, Charles Ditchendorf, William Sobel, Lorin Sodell, Lisa Fronczek
This work presents and catalyzes support for a technology roadmap to improve the resilience and capacity of the US manufacturing supply chain through Digital Thread technology. Risks to supply chain resilience and capacity are mapped against envisioned

Forecasting demand data for critical materials

October 9, 2024
Author(s)
Kyle Foster, Nehika Mathur
Gallium, Indium and Cobalt are critical materials that vital to ramping up the adoption of clean energy technologies such as solar photovoltaics (PVs), electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines (WTs). Like other critical materials, they too are prone to

Summary Report: CHIPS R&D Program Standards Summit

September 27, 2024
Author(s)
Mary Bedner, Chris Greer
The mission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) CHIPS Research and Development Office (CHIPS R&D) under the Department of Commerce's CHIPS for America Program is to accelerate the development and commercial deployment of

Manufacturing Digital Twin Standards

September 24, 2024
Author(s)
Guodong Shao
As a foundation of digital transformation, digital twins are critical for achieving smart manufacturing. Recent technology advancements, such as smart sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI)

Current State and Emerging Trends in Advanced Manufacturing: Part 2 - Smart Systems and Future Challenges

September 3, 2024
Author(s)
Kamyar Raoufi, Karl Haapala, John Sutherland, Fu Zhao, Andres Clarens, Jeremy Rickli, Zhaoyan Fan, Haihong Huang, Yue Wang, WoJae Lee, Nehika Mathur, Matthew Triebe, Sai Srinivas Desabathina
Advanced manufacturing is challenging engineering perceptions of how to innovate and compete. The need for manufacturers to rapidly respond to changing requirements and demands; obtain, store, and interpret large volumes of data and information; and

Towards Sustainable Electronics: Exploring IC Reuse for Circular Economy Transformation

August 22, 2024
Author(s)
Nowell Stoddard, Lisa Paterson, Mark Schaffer, Tom Etheridge, Nehika Mathur, KC Morris, Lise Laurin, Amos Ncube
This perspective paper addresses the importance of responsible end of life (EOL) management of integrated circuits (ICs or chips), with a particular focus on the possibility of IC reuse as an avenue to address the high impacts of chip manufacturing and the

Effects of the Human Presence among Robots in the ARIAC 2023 Industria Automation Competition

July 30, 2024
Author(s)
Leandro Buss Becker, Anthony Downs, Craig I. Schlenoff, Justin Albrecht, Zeid Kootbally, Angelo Ferrando, Rafael Cardoso, Michael Fisher
The ''Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition'' (ARIAC) is an international robotic competition carried out in a simulated factory floor. ARIAC's competitors must perform assembly and kitting tasks by means of controlling four AGVs, one floor

Investigating the use of network analysis metrics to benchmark Industrial Symbiosis development

July 5, 2024
Author(s)
Abheek Chatterjee, Oren Minsk, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Matthew Triebe, Daniel Kietzer, Sushma Kittali-Weidner, KC Morris, Nehika Mathur
Circular economy (CE) aims to reduce natural resource consumption, waste generation, and related detrimental environmental, social, and economic impacts by keeping valuable materials circulating in the economy. Industrial Symbiosis (IS) contributes to CE

An Interlaboratory Study for Assessing Repeatability and Reproducibility of the Data Generated by Rotating Drum Powder Rheometers Part 1: Granudrum

May 3, 2024
Author(s)
Vipin Tondare, Justin Whiting, Adam L. Pintar, Shawn P. Moylan, Aurelien Neveu, Filip Francqui
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) organized an interlaboratory study to assess the repeatability and reproducibility of the data generated by two commercially available rotating drum powder rheometers namely, Granudrum and

Decarbonizing the Economy: Circularizing Solar Photovoltaics

May 2, 2024
Author(s)
Nehika Mathur
Solar photovoltaics (PVs) are the fastest growing clean energy technology. As the first generation of solar PVs reach the end of their functional lives, it is becoming clear that unless strategies to manage discarded panels are implemented, we could be

Microstructural effects on the rotating bending fatigue behavior of Ti-6Al-4V produced via laser powder bed fusion with novel heat treatments

April 30, 2024
Author(s)
Nicholas Derimow, Jake Benzing, David Newton, Chad Beamer, Ping Lu, Frank DelRio, Newell Moser, Orion Kafka, Ryan Fishel, Lucas Koepke, Chris Hadley, Nik Hrabe
The rotating bending fatigue (RBF) behavior (fully reversed, R = -1) of additively manufactured (AM) Ti-6Al-4V alloy produced via laser powder bed fusion (PBF-L) was investigated with respect to different microstructures achieved through novel heat

Spatial and Temporal Data Alignment from Disparate Sources for Feature Association

April 25, 2024
Author(s)
Benjamin Standfield, Eric Holterfield, Russell Waddell
Among the chief topic areas of Industry 4.0, digital thread technology offers the opportunity for increased productivity, efficiency, and traceability throughout a product's lifecycle. While the basic concept of digital thread is easy to realize by
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