Machining

News and Updates

Researcher Brandon Lane making adjustments inside the large 3D printer

NIST Awards Nearly $4 Million to Support Metals-Based Additive Manufacturing

December 29, 2020

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has awarded nearly $4 million in grants to help accelerate

Research Suggests Significant Benefits to Investing in Advanced Machinery Maintenance

June 15, 2020

The maintenance of machinery in the manufacturing industry consists of three primary approaches: reactive, preventive, and predictive. Reactive maintenance is

Evidence suggests that the U.S. Loses Hundreds of Billions to Cybercrime, Possibly as much as 1 % to 4 % of GDP Annually

May 27, 2020

Cybercrime puts America’s competitive edge and economic future at risk; however, there is some debate as to the extent that this activity is impacting economic

Publications

Quantifying Machining Process Inventories In Detailed Design

August 24, 2021

Author(s)

William Z. Bernstein, Till Boettjer, Deverajan Ramanujan

This paper quantifies machining process inventories based on commonly used techniques in various stages of the detailed design process. We investigate

A Case Study for Modeling Machine Tool Systems Using Standard Representations

December 10, 2020

Author(s)

Maja V. Baerring, Guodong Shao, Moneer Helu, Bjorn Johansson

It is challenging to represent a complete machining tool system including geometric and kinematics information to support different decisions including

Uncertainties for Machine Tool Modeling

September 30, 2020

Author(s)

Guodong Shao, William Stann

Machine tool models play an important role to support decision-making for machine tool procurement, process planning, and production scheduling in manufacturing

NIST Recommended Practice Guide: Fractography of Ceramics and Glasses, 3rd edition

September 15, 2020

Author(s)

George D. Quinn

Fractography is a powerful but underutilized tool for the analysis of fractured glasses and ceramics, for fractures in the laboratory and for component failures