Manufacturing Interoperability Steve Ray Program Manager May 19, 2005

Program Goal Equip U.S. manufacturers with the technical guidance and testing support needed to interoperate in today’s global, heterogeneous manufacturing world.

Construction Health Care Automotive Aerospace Textiles Electronics Chemistry Moving to a Multi-Sector Reality

This gets expensive $1B cost to the transportation sector for engineering & business data $5B cost to the discrete manufacturing supply chain $15B cost to the capital equipment sector $22B to $59B cost of inadequate software testing infrastructure

Program Drivers U.S. companies face major information barriers to global commerce This program reduces those barriers Industry has expressed a need for a persistent interoperability testing infrastructure This program establishes a testing & demonstration environment providing that infrastructure U.S. Government has identified integrated manufacturing systems as a priority Interagency Working Group Manufacturing Priorities

Customer’s Testing Needs NIST ManufacturersSoftware Developers Can this standard support what my software can do? How well does this vendor’s software conform to the standard? Why aren’t our two applications communicating well? How do I need to augment my product to be conformant? Conformance Testing

Program Thrusts Virtual Manufacturing Environment

General Issues US manufacturers must continuously increase productivity to stay competitive Seamless data exchange eliminates costly translation steps or manual rekeying and increases productivity “Seamless” too often means a suite of proprietary tools from a single vendor Costly middleware may be needed to bridge different vendor suites Data exchange standards simplify cross-vendor integration New vendor features for productivity optimization are often missing from standards The challenge is to get standards that support state-of-the-art productivity techniques out the door quickly

General NIST Role Provide infrastructure for development and testing of open standards and specifications that support manufacturing industry requirements Work with international standards bodies and foreign government agencies to normalize accreditation and certification requirements and to facilitate standards convergence Participate in pilot programs to prove out new specifications and business processes – provide metrics and means of measuring and comparing new processes to current processes

Product: Driving Issues Distributed collaborative product design Design supply chains Life cycle support OEMs as system integrators US industry is behind in its ability to model product function and configure products at the level of modules, compared to European industry, and is behind in its ability to align product designs and product information structures with existing manufacturing technology, compared to Japanese industry.

Product: NIST Role Development & Testing Develop information models and ontologies for data and knowledge integration in PLM and for semantic and seamless interoperability between PLM supporting systems. Provide standards-based solutions to enable and optimize supplier-integrated product design within design supply chains Work with standards bodies Work with international standards organizations to provide new standards to support PLM and facilitate the convergence of existing standards. –Object Management Group –ISO

Process: Driving Issues Productivity = maximizing “time in cut” Optimal processes require richer data than traditional methods, e.g., design intent, actual descriptions v. nominal descriptions, geometric and dimensional tolerances For “smart machining” we need “smart data” Downstream data flow must be supplemented with upstream data flow, so that discoveries made during manufacturing can contribute to continued improvement of entire process “Closed Loop Manufacturing” is critical to industries with smaller lot sizes of higher value parts, such as aerospace –Sensor feedback is used to automatically adjust processes for normal variation –Feedback is used on a variety of time scales, from short in-process loops to longer trending cycles

Process: NIST Role Development & Testing Infrastructure A metrology interoperability test bed linking inspection equipment and inspection control software Develop performance and conformance tests –I++, DMIS, DML Work with standards bodies Harmonization of GD&T standards within ISO Pilots STEP-NC to determine commercial viability

Operations: Driving Issues Difficulty in getting current or projected data on business demand Difficulty in analyzing effect of unexpected demand –Lack of needed data to determine the ability to respond –Difficult to assess impact of a new order on overall operations Sophisticated models of operations can address these issues, but they are too costly to build, maintain and migrate Vendor community supplying solutions is fragmented, aggravating interoperability problems

Operations: NIST Role Development & Testing infrastructure Jumpstarting a manufacturing simulation model standard Conformance & validation testing Work with standards bodies Simulation Integration Standardization Organization (SISO) Simulation Standards Consortium

Supply Chain: Driving Issues Increased reliance on integrated virtual manufacturing –Outsourcing of design and build operations –Increase in teaming arrangements Increased requirements for “electronic-only interaction” with OEMs Need solutions to enable supplier-integrated product provisioning –Need business process data and associated technical data package – all electronic, all in formats that can be processed by applications affordable to SMEs Multiple integration requirements from multiple OEMs are difficult for suppliers to manage (e.g., multiple B2B requirements, multiple CAx format requirements) Smaller suppliers are not equipped to implement complex, costly solutions (e.g., SAP, CATIA v5) Unclear standards landscape, especially B2B, is inhibiting progress (ebXML vs web services)

Supply Chain: NIST Role Development & Testing Infrastructure Business-to-business interoperability test bed Testing tools to measure schema quality, adherence to design rules, and standards conformance Global test framework with Asian and European partners Work with standards bodies Working to normalize accreditation and certification requirements and to facilitate standards convergence –ebXML, Web services Pilots Inventory visibility pilot with AIAG

Cross-Domain Enablers: Semantics Trends Structure and meaning Semantic Web and ontologies DL and FOL Activities Tools and suites for testing Methods and models for integration

Cross-Domain Enablers: Simulation Trends Off-line and on-line Stand-alone and distributed OEMs and SMEs Activities Interfaces and infrastructure Neutral models and data sources