 "Smart" Tools to Aid Development of Tooling and Production Strategies Comprehensive, Physics-Based Models of Process and Network Models of Systems
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The key to
Intelligent and Integrated Manufacturing (IIM) is the application of
advances in software, controls, sensors, networks and high
performance computing (HPC) to compliment the goals of the Networking and
Informational Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD)
set by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).
Studies indicate that design and analysis tools continue to mature quickly, far outpacing progress in manufacturing in process tools. Existing manufacturing capability is not adequate to support the advances from software tools within other disciplines. NASA and the aerospace community are interested in advancing capabilities for comprehensive life-cycle manufacturing techniques that exploit modeling and simulation tool and virtual environments in order to accelerate manufacturing process development. ETTC address these requirements by facilitating the application of R & D in critical manufacturing process areas. |