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An Assessment of the Smart Manufacturing Activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory Fiscal Year 2017 (2017) / Chapter Skim
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5 Smart Manufacturing Systems Design and Analysis
Pages 30-35

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... The two projects that were not reviewed in depth were the Agri-Food Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Integration project and the New Technology Adoption and Industry Operations Analysis for Smart Manufacturing project. SMSDA personnel stated that their work was in two different categories.
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From page 31...
... It has as one of its primary goals the enablement of SMEs to participate in smart manufacturing, and it has defined agri-food manufacturing as a new section for its program, through its Agri-Food Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Integration project. The identified technologies are transformative for smart manufacturing, and agri-food manufacturing is an ideal domain for the SMSDA program to explore the need for standards development and measurement science, to aid in developing the required capability to enable SMEs.
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From page 32...
... Therefore, it needs to be pursued vigorously. Opportunities and Challenges The SMSDA program, as well as other NIST smart manufacturing programs, seems to be somewhat ad hoc and disconnected -- they are involved with a variety of domain experts and different entities that produce standards.
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From page 33...
... Testing the project output is particularly important where best practices do not exist and the new databases, techniques, and prototypes are being aimed to help SMEs. The stated objective of the Operations-Driven Performance Measurement for Smart Manufacturing Systems project is to "develop and deploy standards, guidelines and reference data for measuring the performance of manufacturing systems to inform the design and aid in analysis of factory improvements."1 To this end the project team has chosen to focus, rightly, on four key performance objectives as identified by the SMLC: agility, productivity, sustainability, and quality.
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From page 34...
... PORTFOLIO OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE Accomplishments The SMSDA staff are very involved in the standards and technical committees of the professional engineering societies, the academic community and partner companies. Over approximately the last three and one half years the SMSDA program has produced approximately 38 journal papers, created and organized approximately 30 workshops and conference sessions, and received honors, such as the ASTM International President's Leadership Award and OAGi Outstanding Contributor Awards for its outstanding work.
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From page 35...
... Making at least two SMEs an integral part of each project team would give the team the means to test its outputs in a real-life environment. The SMSDA program consists of a number of projects; however, it was unclear from the project presentations shown during the review how the different projects relate to the overarching objectives of the program.
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