A Review of the Manufacturing-Related Programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2012 (2012) / Chapter Skim
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The final section presents recommendations. DESCRIPTION AND DISCUSSON OF PROGRAMS Smart Manufacturing Processes and Equipment Program The objective of the Smart Manufacturing Processes and Equipment program targets the development and deployment of advances in measurement science that improve product quality and productivity.
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Based on inputs from the Additive Manufacturing Consortium, the ASTM F42 Committee on Additive Manufacturing Technologies, industry interactions, and the roadmap for additive manufacturing, the NIST group is focused on fundamental measurement science for additive manufacturing processes that is used to evaluate and improve additive manufacturing equipment, standard test methods, physics-based modeling of the process, and in situ measurements of these parts. The group also is developing materials standards for additive manufacturing that include powder characterization, test protocols, and analysis methods.
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and the Boeing Company in pilot production tests. It also is affiliated with the Open Modular Architecture Controls Users Group, the Association for Manufacturing Technology, the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition, and the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium, and it collaborates with the ITL at NIST.
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The Sustainable Manufacturing program partners with multiple universities in work on information modeling, which is the key to what this program offers, and program staff have engaged with key manufacturers to assess the state of the art and to understand the diversity of the needs from different industries. 5 For definition of STEP, see http://www.steptools.com/library/standard/step_1.html.
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The standard technical data are needed to ensure technical integrity and performance of the final products; they include materials, environmental, and structural properties. NIST currently develops tests and data to support the development of standards.
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Unfortunately, all of the areas of Smart Manufacturing that are being researched are lagging behind industry in their research. With additive manufacturing, although parts are being produced and integrated onto production platforms, companies are interested in accelerating and rapidly progressing beyond where NIST is today, in order to use more parts made by additive manufacturing.
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For the Smart Manufacturing Processes and Equipment program, stakeholder engagement is through standards committees, such as the ASTM F42 Committee on Additive Manufacturing Technologies, the Additive Manufacturing Consortium, and the ASME B5 and ISO/TC39/SC2 standards committees. The SMPE program cosponsored a workshop in 2009 to determine the state of the art and the barriers for the use of additive manufacturing.
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The Sustainable Manufacturing program partners with many universities (University of Kentucky; Rochester Institute of Technology; University of California, Berkeley; Purdue University; University of Maryland; Wichita State University; Oregon State University; and Georgia Institute of Technology) in work on information modeling, which is the key to what this program offers.
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It would be further beneficial for the program to interact with other NIST staff who are involved with advanced materials to determine what they could be doing outside of the metals fabrication work. In the case of the Next-Generation Robotics and Automation program, coordination across NIST occurs with the Information Access Division of the ITL, which covers human detection and tracking, and the Sustainable Manufacturing program in the Systems Integration Division of the Engineering Laboratory, for assessing energy utilization associated with robots.
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program should coordinate the other Smart Manufacturing activities. The SIMCA program needs to take the enterprise view that it claims to have and include other areas of manufacturing, not just metals fabrication.
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