title: IDENTIFYING PERFORMANCE ASSURANCE CHALLENGES FOR SMART MANUFACTURING.
abstract: Smart manufacturing has the potential to address many of the challenges faced by industry. However, the manufacturing community often needs assistance to leverage available technologies to improve their systems. To assure the performance of these technologies, this paper proposes a shared knowledge base that collects problem areas, solutions, and best practices for manufacturing technology. An Implementation Risk Assessment Framework (IRAF) is also described to identify the primary weaknesses of technologies in specific manufacturing contexts. Such approaches have the potential to stimulate new ideas and drive standardization activities critical to scale up and deploy smart manufacturing technologies successfully and quickly.
authors.affiliation: Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8260, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 U.S.A.
authors.forename: Moneer
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Helu
authors.affiliation: Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8260, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 U.S.A.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.affiliation: Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8260, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 U.S.A.
authors.forename: Kiwook
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.affiliation: Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8260, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 U.S.A.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lyons
authors.affiliation: Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8260, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 U.S.A.
authors.forename: Swee
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leong
keywords: Performance assurance; Risk assessment; Smart manufacturing; Standards