Interoperability Shortcomings

Poor integration in supply chain infrastructures leads to annual losses in excess of $5 billion for the U.S. automotive industry, and almost $3.9 billion for the U.S. electronics industry.  More in "The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrastructure for Supply Chain Integration."
 

Software errors exact a $59.5 Billion annual toll on the U.S. economy.  Details in "The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrastructure for Software Testing."
 

The inability to freely exchange manufacturing information within the U.S. automotive industry supply chain costs at least $1 billion annually.   Read the report "Interoperability Cost Analysis of the U.S. Automotive Supply Chain."

The SIMA Program coordinates NIST research efforts to improve interoperability and data integration in the areas of:

• Manufacturing eCommerce
  Facilitating exchange of manufacturing eCommerce information across all levels in the supply chain
   
• Manufacturing Product Data
  Capturing and exploiting design data to improve reusability, manufacturability, and support over the entire product lifecycle
   
• Scientific Data
  Developing open standardized formats to make scientific data accessible and exchangeable

Interest Items

Interoperability Week @ NIST
April 28 - May 2, 2008

"Quality of Design" Tool for XML schema consistency

List of Other Events

NIST's Manufacturing Interoperability Program

NIST Releases Crystallography Database

UnitsML - Marking up scientific units data
 

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