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
Measurement Science for Additive Manufacturing
To develop and deploy measurement science that will enable rapid design-to-product transformation through advances in; material characterization; … more
Wide-area Monitoring and Control of Smart Grid
Without ubiquitous, accurate, and reliable real-time sensors, the electric grid will not have the resiliency, reliability, and capacity to manage … more
Smart Grid Interoperability Testbed Facility
NIST is charged by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) with facilitation of interoperability standards to enable successful … more
Advanced Metering in Smart Distribution Grids
Electricity meters today face unprecedented challenges, from distorted waveforms on the grid, bidirectional metering for renewables, and the use … more
Smart Manufacturing Operations Planning and Control Program
The Smart Manufacturing Operations Planning and Control Program will develop and deploy advances in measurement science that enable performance, … more
Performance Metrics and Benchmarks to Advance the State of Robotic Grasping
With a growing number of robot hands, there is an increasing need to capture their individual competencies and characteristics under a unified … more Instruments
Robotics Test Facility
Located on the NIST Gaithersburg campus, the Robotics Test Facility – also known as Building 207 – is a laboratory for developing standard methods … more
Manufacturing Robotics Testbed
TThe NIST manufacturing robotics test bed consists of several labs located in three buildings on the main NIST campus. Combined, these serve as a … more
Virtual Factory Testbed
The Virtual Factory Testbed (VFT) is comprised of three physical facilities linked by a standalone network (VFNet). The three facilities are the … more
Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) Research Facility
The NIST Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) Research Facility includes two commercial metal-based AM systems located in two different buildings on … more
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 Software
STEP File Analyzer
The STEP File Analyzer is a software tool that generates a spreadsheet from a STEP (ISO 10303 –STandard for Exchange of Product model data) file. … more
Baseline Tailor
Baseline Tailor is a software tool for using the United States government’s Cybersecurity Framework and for tailoring the NIST Special Publication … more
Sustainable Manufacturing Indicator Repository (SMIR)
The Sustainable Manufacturing Indicator Repository (SMIR) aims to provide a centralized access to sustainability indicators to help companies … more
Exercise Control System
The Systems Integration Division's (SID) Manufacturing & Modeling Simulation Group (MSG) worked with San Francisco Communications to support … more
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 |
Selected Publications
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