An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory Fiscal Year 2010 (2010) / Chapter Skim
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The Precision Engineering Division has 35 NIST staff, 22 guest researchers, and 1 postdoctoral researcher. Its FY 2010 estimated funding is about $12.7 million, with about 23 percent coming from extramural sources, and it has 3 programs containing 19 projects.
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and well distributed technically in terms of high and low risk and short- and long-term payoff. Although this achievement is noteworthy, the MEL will need to address looming challenges in measurement science, measurement services, and standards in areas such as transformable, high-precision factories that operate beyond the current state of the art in accuracy and quality1 and new manufacturing processes and products with decreasing dimensional scale and integrated biotechnology.2 To address these challenges will require more coupling of critical project selection with technical staff and equipment development than the MEL currently has done.
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Examples are numerous, including the following: An industrial Ethernet network performance test tool that allows vendors and users to validate network performance before deployment; NIST SP 800-53, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems, and NIST SP 800-82, Guide to Industrial Control Systems Security; Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP) ; Online testing services that enable software vendors to validate the conformance of their products to standards; Standards for wireless sensors; Techniques for using deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
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Strengthened global benchmarking and self-assessment activities by the division should be performed to identify gaps and drive future project selection. The ISD could have broader impact through consortium development, further leveraging industry involvement and investment to accelerate the dissemination of developed standards.
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The programs compare very favorably with peer activities at the national standards institutions of other countries such as England and Germany. MMD staff members are key participants in standards committees for such areas as mass metrology and wireless sensors, and they actively disseminate the results to a wide audience.
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Precision Engineering Division The Precision Engineering Division (PED) conducts R&D in precisionengineered length-metrology-intensive systems in both measuring and production machines, aiming for both high-accuracy measurement results and first-principles analysis of measurement systems.
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Nevertheless, the PED is clearly the place to go for the best in manufacturing metrology. RECOMMENDATIONS The recommendations of the panel based on its assessment of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory and its divisions are as follows: Across the MEL, project management and portfolio management strategies have continuously improved; however, more coupling of critical project selection with technical staff and equipment development should be pursued.
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The MMD should continue to enhance its current capabilities through automation to improve accuracy, reduce costs, broaden operational ranges, reduce uncertainty, and reduce turnaround time. Much of the MMD metrology infrastructure is aging and will need to be updated or repaired in the near future.
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