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
NIST Center for Automotive Lightweighting
Our objective is to develop the measurement methodology, standards and analysis necessary for the US auto industry and base metal suppliers to … more
Diffraction Metrology and Standards
Our objective is the development of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) and quantitative, reproducible, and accurate measurement methods for … more
Nanostructure Fabrication Processes
In this project we are developing in situ measurements relevant to the electrochemical fabrication, processing, and application of nanostructured … more
Marciniak Mechanical Testing
A novel method for measuring multiaxial stress-strain curves in sheet metal has been designed based on a modified Marciniak punch stretching … more
Ceramic Phase Equilibrium Data
Our objective is to compile, evaluate, determine, and disseminate phase equilibrium data to facilitate and optimize the development, processing, … more
Crystallographic Databases
Our objective is to provide critically evaluated, comprehensive crystal structure databases to enable materials identification required for the … 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 |
Selected Publications
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