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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."
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The SIMA Program coordinates NIST research efforts to improve interoperability and data
integration in
the areas of:
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Manufacturing eCommerce
Facilitating exchange of manufacturing eCommerce information
across all levels in the supply chain
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Manufacturing Product
Data
Capturing and exploiting design data to improve reusability,
manufacturability, and support over the entire product lifecycle
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Scientific Data
Developing open
standardized formats to make scientific data accessible and exchangeable
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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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