Intelligent Processing of Materials: Report of an Industrial Workshop Conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology Held in Gaithersburg, Maryland on August 31-September 1, 1988

摘要

Intelligent processing of materials has been established as a major new program area in the Institute for Materials Science and Engineering, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The goal of the program is to develop some of the generic scientific and technological bases for intelligent processing and, by means of selected pilot or demonstration projects, to encourage American industry to pursue and to adopt this powerful new approach to materials processing. In developing the new program, NIST cooperated in organizing two national workshops in 1985-86 to help identify the principal industrial needs in this field of technology and to solicit guidance for program planning activities. On August 30 and September 1, 1988, NIST convened a third workshop in this series. This one was comprised primarily of selected industrial specialists and was designed to define the specific materials processes upon which the NIST program should focus, and to discuss suitable approaches for accomplishing the work. The report documents the results of that workshop.