Research Areas in Manufacturing Unit Processes

该奖项使制造研究委员会能够创建一个由材料科学、工业和机械工程以及生产管理领域的大学和行业专家组成的15人委员会。委员会将在一个三期研究中评估关键技术和过程的研究需求。第一阶段将需要开发用于对单元过程进行分类的分类法（例如，按物理特性、按行业、按产品），并在分类法的宏观横截面上检查单元过程的特征。第二阶段将涉及制定标准，以确定哪些单元工艺对长期制造业竞争力至关重要。研究的第三和最后阶段将涉及对具体关键过程的深入分析。这项为期两年的研究将导致(1)对单元工艺及其对美国制造业竞争力的潜在影响进行一系列详细分析；(2)为美国国家科学基金会和美国制造业社区在单元工艺领域制定一个全面的、优先的、长期的研究议程。

This award enables the Manufacturing Studies Board to create a fifteen-member committee of university and industry experts in the areas of materials science, industrial and mechanical engineering, and production management. The committee will evaluate the research needs of the key technologies and processes in a three-phase study. The first phase will entail both developing a taxonomy for classifying unit processes (e.g., by physical characteristics, by industry, by product) and examining the characteristics of unit processes across macro-level cross sections of the taxonomy. The second phase will involve developing criteria to determine which unit processes are critical to long- term manufacturing competitiveness. The third and final phase of the study will involve an in-depth analysis of specific critical processes. This two-year study will result in (1) a series of detailed analyses of unit processes and their potential impact on U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and (2) the development of a comprehensive, prioritized, long-term research agenda for the National Science Foundation and the United States manufacturing community in the area of unit processes.