Manufacturing quality assurance

News and Updates

NIST Engineer Presents at Women in Manufacturing Summit

NIST Engineers Support Vendor Implementations of STEP to Evolve Digital Manufacturing

NIST Researchers Present Tutorial on Discrete-Event Manufacturing Simulation Using Open-Source SimPROCESD Environment

Projects and Programs

Digital Thread for Manufacturing

Ongoing

Purpose and Goals This project will provide research advances in product-definition standardization, conformance testing, and cybersecurity of data assets. Digital thread standards capabilities and infrastructure - Smart connected manufacturing requires the effective communication of the product

Precursor Material Qualification

Completed

To develop, utilize, and analyze methods of characterizing the precursor materials in additive manufacturing in both virgin and recycled states with the goal of advancing measurement science to benefit the AM community. The components of principal interest will include the rheological, size

Pushing the Limits of Measurement Accuracy in Atom Probe Mass Spectrometry

Ongoing

Isotopic Analysis for Isotopic Geochemistry, Nuclear Safety, and Materials Science : Atom probe tomography has a significant advantage over other forms of mass spectrometry, which typically have a combined efficiency < 5%, in terms of ionization and detection efficiency. Commercial atom probe

Photonic Dosimetry

Ongoing

With this effort, NIST is responding to industry needs for traceable, measurement solutions that can resolve spatial variations of absorbed dose at the level of individual components on a silicon wafer or bacteria on surgical instruments. Presently, there is only limited traceability to national