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An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory Fiscal Year 2008 (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Manufacturing Metrology Division
Pages 11-13

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... mechanical units; develops methods, models, sensors, and data to improve metrology, machines, and processes; provides services in mechanical metrology, optics metrology, machine metrology, process metrology, and sensor integration; and leads in the development of national and international standards. The division currently has 35 full-time staff, 1 NRC postdoctoral researcher, and 14 guest researchers.
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From page 12...
... Most notable among these is one between the Mass Metrology Project and the Argonne National Laboratory. The project identified a unique, diamond-like carbon coating developed at Argonne as a highly effective protective layer for new mass artifacts being developed for future mass dissemination purposes and has exploited this well.
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From page 13...
... • The MMD ensures that its measurements and standards activities address the needs and priorities of its customers. Examples include the division's work in wireless sensors standards, in improving mass metrology and small-force measurement technology, and in the measurement of the radius of curvature of large, precision, spherical surfaces.
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Key Terms

  • mass metrology
  • manufacturing metrology
  • metrology division
  • mmd staff
  • wireless sensors

  • standards committees
  • succession planning
  • calibration services
  • acoustics metrology
  • machine tool

  • standards activities
  • force measurement
  • mechanical metrology
  • tool metrology
  • sensors standards

  • improving mass
  • establishing traceability
  • measurement technology
  • activities address
  • guest researchers

  • postdoctoral associates
  • machine metrology
  • mmd continues
  • insufficient overlap
  • sensor integration

  • mmd core
  • mechanical units
  • division aims
  • carbon coating
  • develop standards


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