This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation aims to develop data-driven methodologies for efficient monitoring and operation of multistage manufacturing systems. The $300,442 award to the University of Wisconsin System will establish an integrated mathematical framework to model the spatial interactions between machines and the temporal degradation of each machine in a multistage manufacturing process. The...
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $223,843 Project Grant to Rutgers, The State University located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The award, which runs from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, is under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop data-driven methodologies for integrative monitoring and operation of multistage manufacturing systems. The key products and services to be delivered include:...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award totaling $150,000 is funding a two-year exploratory research project (August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026) led by the University of Iowa. The project aims to address fundamental challenges in translating on-ground manufacturing systems to reliable in-space production by developing a real-time heterogeneous transfer active learning framework. This framework will leverage knowledge from well-studied, data-rich...
This $398,786 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at North Carolina State University to develop a privacy-preserving collaborative condition monitoring and decision-making methodology for distributed manufacturing systems. The project aims to enable multiple geographically distributed manufacturing facilities to collectively utilize their data to construct more effective monitoring and decision-making models, while...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $289,495 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an integrated materials-manufacturing-controls framework for improving the efficiency and resilience of manufacturing systems. The research will focus on enhancing the understanding of the interactions between raw material properties, manufacturing processes, and process control to enable more integrated and...
This $300,001 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the NSF Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to define, evaluate, and improve data quality for effective artificial intelligence (AI) deployment in manufacturing. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research to develop methodologies for monitoring and improving personalized manufacturing processes, particularly for one-of-a-kind parts produced using additive manufacturing. The award, totaling $129,624 and spanning from June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2027, will enable researchers at the University of Oklahoma to establish a novel latent space monitoring approach based on...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $183,420 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Office of Research Administration Division. The grant will fund a collaborative research project to develop an integrated materials-manufacturing-controls framework for enhancing the efficiency and resilience of manufacturing systems. Key objectives include: 1) quantifying the effects of raw ingredients on feedstock properties, 2)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,068 Project Grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Illinois for the project "Collaborative Research: Concurrent Design Integration of Products and Remanufacturing Processes for Sustainability and Life Cycle Resilience". This 3-year research project aims to develop a new product design platform that concurrently considers the design of multi-life cycle products and their remanufacturing processes. The...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation provided $200,000 to Montclair State University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The funding supports research from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024 for the project "ERI: HIGH-PERFORMANCE HUMAN-ROBOT COLLABORATIVE MANUFACTURING ENABLED BY INTEGRATED MULTIMODAL TEACHING, LEARNING, PREDICTION AND INTERACTION." The university will research and...