Enterprise and Emerging Manufacturing
Abstract
Enterprise and Emerging Manufacturing is a series of efforts addressing advanced manufacturing technologies and enterprise business practices for defense applications. Key focus areas include direct digital (or additive) manufacturing, advanced manufacturing enterprise, machining, robotics, assembly, and joining. These manufacturing technologies and enterprise business practices will accelerate delivery of technical capabilities to impact current warfighting operations, and manufacturing technologies to reduce the cost, acquisition time and risk of our major defense acquisition programs. Emerging manufacturing technologies undergoing development include: Hybrid Direct Digital Manufacturing which combines conventional polymer deposition processes such as selective laser sintering with direct write methods to create embedded components, such as antenna or sensors; Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise projects such as Technical Data Package for the Digital Enterprise, which seeks to develop the methods for exchange of 3D official technical data throughout the supply chain and between government and contractors. Future efforts will focus on advances in direct digital manufacturing for polymers, metals, and electronics; and joining of dissimilar materials for a variety of DoD applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- d2fd4fba2e68a739f92295478b8bb633