A Review of the Manufacturing-related Programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Download or read book A Review of the Manufacturing-related Programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The mission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) enables NIST to provide broad support for the advancement of U.S. manufacturing. Research and services supporting manufacturing are intended to be an important component in all of the NIST laboratories ... With the multidisciplinary, multisector, and crosscutting nature of manufacturing, the Director of NIST requested that the National Research Council (NRC) assess the manufacturing-related programs at NIST in 2012 ... The assessment considered manufacturing research at NIST broadly, with emphasis on the specific advanced manufacturing areas: nanomanufacturing (including flexible electronics); smart manufacturing (including robotics); and next-generation materials measurements, modeling, and simulation. The area of biomanufacturing also reviewed as a subset of the nanomanufacturing review. As is to be expected for programs covering such wide scope, the boundaries among these broad areas are not rigid and there is some overlap among them. On the basis of its assessment, the panel formed the observations and recommendations which are detailed in this report"--Publisher's website.