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Sustainability
Sustainable manufacturing is a platform for development of innovative manufacturing technologies which address world wide resources shortages and excess environmental load to enable an environmentally benign life cycle.

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Energy Efficiency
Energy Efficient manufacturing is a platform for improving efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint in energy utilization for manufacturing and operational processes. The energy efficiency platform will result in reduced manufacturing costs and global warming impact.

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Key Technologies
Key Technologies is a platform that includes those technologies that will yield a high impact on the next generation of manufacturing. These technologies include Model Based Enterprise, nanotechnology, and Smart materials.

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Standards
Standards is a platform that will focus on manufacturing research issues that can benefit from standardization to create open manufacturing and product standards that are accessible to everyone and enhance innovation globally. IMS involvement in standards would also focus on key areas where the lack of standards is impeding progress in any of the other MTP areas.

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Education
Education is a platform for educational programs designed for an information based knowledge worker environment that supports manufacturing in the future. Research listed under this platform will contribute to the development of a coherent vision of manufacturing education across the whole vocational and professional community.


Clarence Johnson
NIST
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8260
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8260
USA
Telephone: +1-301-975-3562
E-mail: ceejay@nist.gov

Date created: August 2, 2005
Last updated: Sep. 02, 2005

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