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System Lifecycle Handler -- Spinning a Digital Thread for Manufacturing

July 11, 2018
Author(s)
Manas Bajaj, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr.
Transforming the manufacturing economy from paper-based information flows to a seamless digital thread across geographically distributed supply chains has the potential to reduce cycle time by 75% and save manufacturers $30 billion annually. The "Digital

STEP File Analyzer and Viewer User Guide (Update 5)

June 28, 2018
Author(s)

Robert R. Lipman

This guide describes how to use the STEP File Analyzer and Viewer, a software tool that analyzes and generates a spreadsheet or a set of CSV (comma-separated value) files from a STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data) file. The spreadsheets

Design and Configuration of the Smart Manufacturing Systems Test Bed

December 18, 2017
Author(s)
Thomas D. Hedberg, Moneer M. Helu
The purpose of this document is to describe the design and configuration of the NIST Smart Manufacturing Systems Test Bed. Prospective developers, technical-assessment personnel, researchers, and interested end-users are the intended audience of this

Software Requirements Specification to Distribute Manufacturing Data

December 18, 2017
Author(s)
Thomas D. Hedberg, Moneer M. Helu, Marcus W. Newrock
The purpose of this document is to describe the requirements specifications for applications and a data repository to distribute manufacturing data. Prospective developers, technical-assessment personnel, and interested end-users are the intended audience

Ontological Product Modeling for Collaborative Design

July 22, 2010
Author(s)
Conrad E. Bock, XuanFang Zha, Hyo-won Suh, Jae H. Lee
This paper shows how to combine ontological and model-based techniques in languages that facilitate collaborative design exploration. The proposed approach uses ontology to capture alternative designs and incremental refinements that meet requirements and

Ontological Product Modeling for Collaborative Design

October 30, 2009
Author(s)
Conrad E. Bock, XuanFang Zha, Hyo W. Suh, Jae H. Lee
This paper presents a product modeling language for collaborative design that has the benefits of ontology and expanded capabilities in conventional product modeling. The proposed approach uses ontology to increase flexibility and accuracy in combining

SysML and UML 2 Support for Activity Modeling

June 1, 2005
Author(s)
Conrad E. Bock
This article describes activity modeling as specified by the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and the finalization of the Unified Modeling Language version 2 (UML 2). It reviews and updates an earlier proposed alignment between Enhanced Functional Flow

Systems Engineering in the Product Lifecycle

May 1, 2005
Author(s)
Conrad E. Bock
This article introduces basic elements of systems engineering that are useful in managing the product lifecycle, as expressed in an extension to the Unified Modeling Language. Models are described for product requirements in textual and computable form
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