Agile Manufacturing: Integrated Manufacturing Technology Roadmapping

这笔拨款为多机构的努力提供了持续的资金，以开发一套使能技术路线图，确定满足美国制造业近期和长期目标所需的关键交叉进展和能力。该项目将继续建立在美国国家工程院下一代制造研究的路线图上。在这项工作的第一阶段，制定了三个领域的路线图：信息系统、建模和模拟以及制造过程和设备。此阶段的主要目标是完成基线路线图计划，包括企业集成技术路线图的开发、基线差距分析的完成、合并报告的开发和验证，以及实施的启动。在这项工作中产生的信息将在互联网上出版和保存，作为政府和工业界支持战略规划的一种易于获取的资源。在解决与下一代制造业相关的技术挑战方面，相对较少的努力或集体关注。其中许多挑战超出了单个公司或单个政府机构的能力范围。这一努力使这些方面聚集在一个论坛上，在这个论坛上可以编制和提供战略规划方面的资料。在当前制造业研发资金水平下降的环境下，这一点尤为重要。这一项目的成果应有助于提供一种机制，使各机构和工业界在共同关心的领域集中其资源。

This grant provides continuing funding for a multi-agency effort to develop a set of enabling technology roadmaps that identify key cross-cutting advances and capabilities required to meet near and long-term goals of the U.S. manufacturing community. This project will continue to build on the roadmapping effort of the National Academy of Engineering Next Generation Manufacturing study. During the first phase of this effort, roadmaps were developed in three areas: information systems, modeling and simulation, and manufacturing processes and equipment. The primary objectives of this phase are to complete the baseline roadmapping initiative including the development of a technology roadmap for enterprise integration, completion of the baseline gap analysis, development and validation of a consolidated report, and initiation of implementation. The information produced in this effort will be published as it is produced and maintained on the Internet as a readily accessible resource for government and industry in support of strategic planning.There has been relatively little effort or collective focus to address the technical challenges associated with the next generation of manufacturing. Many of these challenges go beyond the capabilities of a single company or a single government agency to address. This effort brings these parties together in a forum within which information for strategic planning can be developed and made available. This is especially crucial in the current environment where the level of manufacturing R&D funding is declining. The results of this project should help to provide a mechanism for agencies and industry to pool their resources in areas of mutual interest.