Manufacturing Portal - OverviewProviding technical support to the nation's manufacturing industries as they strive to out-innovate and outperform the international competition has always been one of NIST's top priorities. Innovation and manufacturing work hand in hand. An innovation ecosystem has many interrelated elements—entrepreneurs, skilled workers, tax policies, to name a few. But without manufacturing, the economic magic of innovation is not nearly as potent and its benefits to the nation are not nearly as great. Programs and Projects
Army Research Laboratory Perception/ Performance Evaluation Project
The detection, classification, and tracking of moving vehicles and people from an unmanned vehicle maneuvering at speeds of up to 80 kph remain a … more
Federal Highway Administration Exploratory Advanced Research Program
Leverage NIST knowledge and capabilities in task analysis, perception, autonomous vehicle systems, and performance measurements to support an FWHA … more
RoboCrane
(Concluded) The RoboCrane design utilizes the basic idea of the Stewart Platform parallel link manipulator. The unique feature of the NIST … more
Manipulating the Position and Orientation of Nanoparticles using Feedback Control
To advance the development of miniaturized systems, there is a need to place nanostructured materials in very precise locations. Only then can … more
Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers
One of the major obstacles to incorporating nanotechnology into everyday products is the difficulty of making nanoscale structures inexpensively … more
Novel Sources for Focused-ion Beams
Focused beams of ions have a wide range of uses, from nanoscale imaging to the fabrication of nanomaterials. At the CNST, researchers … more Instruments
Aperture area measurement facility
NIST has established an absolute aperture area measurement facility for circular and near-circular apertures use in radiometric instruments. The … more
Advanced Manufacturing Test Bed
The NIST robot test bed is located in the NIST machine shops on the main campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It serves as a resource for research in … more Software
STEP Class Library (SCL)
The NIST STEP Class Library (SCL) is a set of C++ class libraries which are capable of representing information conforming to the EXPRESS (ISO … more
Exercise Control System
The Systems Integration Division's (SID) Manufacturing & Modeling Simulation Group (MSG) worked with San Francisco Communications to … more
DEXML
DEXML is a tool based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to aid in specifying and implementing data exchange specifications (known as DEXs) … more
Reeper
Reeper is a set of Ruby tools for manipulating ISO EXPRESS data models. The input to Reeper is the standard XML representation of the EXPRESS … more
SimRest
SimRest is a set of components being developed to facilitate the use of Representational State Transfer (REST) Web Services to create distributed … more
OntoSTEP Plugin
ISO 10303, also known as the STandard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP), contains different data models – called Application … more |
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Related Links FY 2013 Budget in Brief: Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives Contact General Information: 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070 |
