NIST Announces Four New
ATP Awards
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Project
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Awardee(s)
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Description
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Requested ATP Funds
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Estimated Project Funds
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Date Announced
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| Technologies
for the Integration of Manufacturing Applications - Advanced Process
Control Framework Initiative
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Honeywell Technology Center , Minneapolis, MN
Advanced
Micro Devices (Sunnyvale, CA)
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Develop the basic framework for an integrated factory-level production
control environment for the semiconductor industry that will control
lot production across the factory and enable real-time, automated
feedforward and feedback refinement of individual process steps.
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$4,907 K
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$10,008 K
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January 1996
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| An
Agent-Based Framework for Integrated Intelligent Planning - Execution
| IBM
Manufacturing Solutions Unit, Charlotte, NC
Black
and Decker (Towson, MD)
Pa
Ted Spring Company (Bristol, CT)
QAD,
Inc. (Mt. Laurel, NJ)
Berclain
USA (Newton, MA)
J.D.
Edwards (Denver, CO)
University
of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC)
University
of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD)
New
Holland North America Inc. (New Holland, PA)
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Develop technologies for a plug-and-play framework of integratable
business objects and software agents to enable agile manufacturing
by making shop-floor status and capacity information available in
real-time throughout an enterprise.
| $11,046
K
| $22,913
K
| January
1996
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Solutions for MES-Adaptable Replicable Technology (SMART)
| National
Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols Consortium,
Stamford, CT General Motors Corporation, North American
Operations (Warren, MI) IBM (Stamford, CT)
International
TechneGroup Inc. (Milford, OH)
MESA
International (Pittsburgh, PA)
STEP
Tools, Inc. (Troy, NY)
UES,
Inc. (Dublin, OH)
University
of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
| Provide
for the integration and interoperability of the present generation
of piecemeal and customized manufacturing execution systems (MES)
applications into a generalized manufacturing framework for the
optimization of efficiency and agility in a large diversity of factory
settings.
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$12,751 K
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$26,228 K
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January 1996
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Model-Driven Application & Integration Components for MES
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Vitria Technology, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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Develop an MES architecture based on a small set of software "engines"
to provide general solutions for major tasks, which are then tailored
to specific user applications by writing an application model to
drive the engine.
| $2,000
K
| $2,392
K
| January
1996
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Date
created:1997
Last updated:
April 12, 2005
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