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Manufacturing

Interoperability in manufacturing

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Digital Thread for Smart Manufacturing

Completed
Objective: The Digital Thread for Smart Manufacturing Systems project will deliver methods and protocols that extend and complete the digital thread for information running through design, manufacturing and product support processes to integrate smart manufacturing systems. The results of this

Product Definitions for Smart Manufacturing

Completed
The Product Definitions for Smart Manufacturing project will deliver methods, protocols, and tools for developing, conformance testing, increasing user-awareness, and industrial adoption of product definition standards necessary for the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises. Smart

Systems Integration for Additive Manufacturing

Ongoing
Objective: Deliver an information systems architecture, including metrics, information models, and validation methods to shorten the design-to-product cycle time in additive manufacturing (AM). Technical Idea: AM adopters are increasingly facing many of the challenges faced by early computer-aided
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NIST Engineer Presents at Women in Manufacturing Summit

NIST Engineer Presents at Women in Manufacturing Summit

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NIST Engineers Support Vendor Implementations of STEP to Evolve Digital Manufacturing

NIST Engineers Support Vendor Implementations of STEP to Evolve Digital Manufacturing

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NIST Releases New Version of SimPROCESD Software for Discrete-event Manufacturing Simulation

NIST Releases New Version of SimPROCESD Software for Discrete-event Manufacturing Simulation

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