Advanced Technology Program Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Technology PublicWorkshop

摘要

The NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP) provides competitive, cost-sharedawards for industry to develop high-risk, enabling technology with broad-based economic benefit. The ATP seeks to help industry fill the gap between basic research and product development, and to invest in technology that wouldn't be developed in a competitive time-frame without government cost-sharing. Along with general competitions which are open to proposals from all technical areas, the ATP is also funding a series of 'focused programs' with specific business and technical goals. Begun in 1995, the ATP Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Technology (MVMT) program focuses on technology advances that strengthen manufacturing capabilities along the entire automotive production chain. The motor vehicle manufacturing sector has long been recognized as a prime mover in the development of manufacturing processes. The same technology is applicable to many other industrial sectors as well. For example, improvements in machining, tooling, and assembly are likely to directly impact the metal furniture and fixtures, primary metals fabricated metal products, electrical and non-electrical machinery, transportation, and precision instrument industries. Hence, the technology developed by this program has the potential for broad diffusion throughout American manufacturing, with ensuring wide-spread benefits. This public workshop is intended to be in important step in this tehcnology diffusion effort.