Agile Manufacturing: Integrated Manufacturing Technology Roadmapping

这笔赠款为多机构努力开发一套有利的技术路线图提供持续资金，这些路线图确定了实现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国家工程院下一代制造研究的路线图工作的基础上。在这项工作的第一阶段，在三个领域制定了路线图：信息系统、建模和模拟以及制造工艺和设备。这一阶段的主要目标是完成基线路线图倡议，包括为企业整合制定技术路线图，完成基线差距分析，编写和验证综合报告，并开始实施。在这项工作中产生的信息将在互联网上发布和维护，作为政府和行业支持战略规划的随时可用的资源。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一家公司或一家政府机构的能力范围。这一努力将这些缔约方聚集在一个论坛中，在这个论坛内可以制定和提供战略规划方面的信息。在制造业研发资金水平不断下降的当前环境下，这一点尤为关键。该项目的成果应有助于为各机构和工业界提供一种机制，将其资源集中在共同感兴趣的领域。

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.