Manufacturing and Biomanufacturing: Materials Advances and Critical Processes

This white paper examines societal challenges within the critical national need area of manufacturing.

It says the Technology Innovation Program (TIP) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was involved in assisting US businesses and institutions of higher education or other organisations, to support, promote and accelerate innovation in the US through high-risk, high-reward research in areas of critical national need.

The paper explains that manufacturing innovations resulting from high-risk, high-reward research and development will create improvements in new and existing products and in their manufacture, by enhancing the utilisation of materials advances and overcoming critical manufacturing process.

The three societal challenges needed to be addressed while manufacturing include process scale-up, integration and design for materials advances, predictive modeling for materials advances and materials processing and critical process advances.