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Summary of the October 2020 Terminology Harmonization Meeting

March 31, 2021
Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff
On October 26, 2020, the Industrial Activities Board (IAB) of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) organized a virtual Terminology Harmonization Meeting in conjunction with the Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Conference. The goal of the

Agile Robotics for Industrial Applications: Editorial

March 24, 2021
Author(s)
Craig I. Schlenoff, Zeid Kootbally, Erez Karpas
Advances in automation have provided for sustained productivity increases and manufacturing growth over the past decade. Sustaining this growth will require automation to become more agile and flexible, enabling the automation of tasks that require a high

Rethinking maintenance terminology for an Industry 4.0 future

March 22, 2021
Author(s)
Melinda Hodkiewicz, Sarah Lukens, Michael Brundage, Thurston Sexton
Sensors and mathematical models have been used since the 1990's to assess the health of systems and diagnose anomalous behavior. The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) increases the range of assets on which data can be collected cost effectively. Cloud

A Data-Driven Framework for Team Formation for Maintenance Tasks

February 16, 2021
Author(s)
Maya Reslan, Emily Hastings, Michael Brundage, Thurston Sexton
Even as maintenance evolves with new technologies, it is still a heavily human-driven domain; multiple steps in the maintenance workflow still require human expertise and intervention. Various maintenance activities require multiple maintainers, all with

RULE MODEL FOR SELECTING DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT IN INSPECTION PLANNING

November 27, 2020
Author(s)
Shaw C. Feng, John A. Horst, Allison Barnard Feeney, Albert T. Jones
Process uncertainty can have negative impact on the part quality and is critical to safety and performance of products. Those impacts are manifested in the dimensional measurement uncertainty associated with those parts and products. To minimize the

Runtime Verification of the ARIAC Competition: Can a Robot be Agile and Safe at the Same Time?

November 27, 2020
Author(s)
Angelo Ferrando, Zeid Kootbally, Pavlo Piliptchak, Rafael Cardoso, Craig I. Schlenoff, Michael Fisher
ARIAC (Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition) is a robotic competition which aims to advance robotic agility in industry. Participants in this competition are required to implement a robot control system to overcome agility challenges in a

Six-sigma Quality Management of Additive Manufacturing

November 26, 2020
Author(s)
Yan Lu, Hui Yang, Paul Witherell
Quality is a key determinant in deploying new processes, products or services, and influences the adoption of emerging manufacturing technologies. The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) as a manufacturing process has the potential to revolutionize a

Annual Report on U.S. Manufacturing Industry Statistics: 2020

October 27, 2020
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
This report provides a statistical review of the U.S. manufacturing industry. There are three aspects of U.S. manufacturing that are considered: (1) how the U.S. industry compares to other countries, (2) the trends in the domestic industry, and (3) the

Prognostics and Health Management to Improve Resilient Manufacturing

October 23, 2020
Author(s)
Michael P. Brundage, Brian A. Weiss
Manufacturers need to be resilient to effectively mitigate substantial disruptions to manufacturing operations so they may remain competitive. Disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic have caused manufacturers to experience new challenges

Proceedings of the 11th Model-Based Enterprise Summit (MBE 2020)

April 30, 2020
Author(s)
Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Mark G. Carlisle
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted the eleventh installment of the Model-Based Enterprise Summit (MBE 2020) on March 31 through April 2, 2020 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The MBE 2020 witnessed another year-over-year
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