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    ASME is developing the future of Advanced Manufacturing, by ensuring that professionals have the tools and knowledge needed to drive the next generation of engineering designs for a sustainable future. ASME supports advanced manufacturing through a variety of initiatives and resources noted below, from developing standards for emerging manufacturing technologies to developing a community of top professionals in manufacturing.

    1.    Standards Development: ASME develops and publishes standards and codes that are essential for ensuring safety, reliability, and efficiency in manufacturing processes. These standards cover various aspects of manufacturing, including materials, design, and testing to address industry needs. Key Standards include those within the B46, B49, MBE, Y14, VVUQ, and MAM families of Standards.

    2.    Technical Conferences and Workshops: ASME organizes conferences, workshops, and symposia that focus on advanced manufacturing technologies and practices. These events provide platforms for professionals to exchange knowledge, discuss trends, and explore new technologies. Specific events include ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification Symposium (VVUQ), IDETC-CIE International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference and ASME Aerospace Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference (SSDM).

    3.    Publications: ASME publishes journals, magazines, and books that cover a wide range of topics related to advanced manufacturing. These publications include the following journals as well as the conference proceedings for those conferences noted above. 
    • Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering (JMSE) is a leading journal that covers a wide range of topics in manufacturing science and engineering, including advanced manufacturing processes, materials, and technologies. 
    • Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) focuses on mechanical design, including aspects related to manufacturing processes and technologies.
    • Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology (JEMT) covers the science and engineering of materials used in manufacturing. 
    • Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control (JDSMC) focuses on systems and control theory, including its applications in manufacturing processes. Topics relevant to advanced manufacturing include automation, robotics, and control systems.

    4.    Technical Communities and Committees: ASME has various technical communities and committees focused on specific areas of manufacturing, such as robotics, materials processing, and additive manufacturing. These groups include the Manufacturing Engineering Division (MED), Design Engineering Division (DED), and Materials and Manufacturing Processes Division (MMPD), along with many other manufacturing related divisions.

    5.    Collaborations and Partnerships: ASME collaborates with other organizations, industry groups, and academic institutions to advance research and develop standards to address manufacturing industry needs. These partnerships help drive innovation and facilitate the adoption of new technologies.

    6.    Education and Outreach: ASME supports educational initiatives and outreach programs that promote advanced manufacturing. This includes working with educational institutions to integrate advanced manufacturing concepts into curricula and encouraging young professionals to enter the field.

    Click each of the tabs below to view more information about individual Standards Committees, new areas of development, and other activities within ASME’s Advanced Manufacturing portfolio. 
     

    Advanced Manufacturing

    BVP Section III
    BVP Section III, responsible for Section III of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC), addresses advanced manufacturing and materials within some nuclear plants and components. 

    The Working Group on Advanced Manufacturing is responsible for developing, clarifying, and prescribing rules for the physical material properties, and special testing, requirements for fabrication and stamping of items manufactured by Advanced Manufacturing techniques including but not limited to: Powder Metallurgy / Hot Isostatic Pressing; Powder Bed-Additive Manufacturing; Direct Energy Deposition-Additive Manufacturing / Wire; Cold Spray Deposition/Cladding.; and Diode Laser Cladding under the jurisdiction of Section III, Division 1 – Article 2000.

    The Task Group on Division 5 AM Components was formed in response to increased interest by vendors in fabrication nuclear components for elevated temperature service using advanced manufacturing (AM) methods. These methods can include, for example, hot isostatic pressing near net shape components from powder, powder bed fabrication, wire feed methods and diffusion bonding. This Task Group will determine appropriate approaches for qualifying materials processed by AM methods and specifying acceptance criteria for components produced by these methods. The goal of the Task Group is to develop Code Actions for incorporating AM materials and components in Division 5 for elevated temperature nuclear construction.

    Committee Page: https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=N20070000 

    Staff Contact: Adam Maslowski maslowskia@asme.org 

    Charter: To develop, review, and maintain, for publication in Section III of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, rules governing the construction of: Division 1 vessels, storage tanks, piping, pumps, valves, metal containments, supports, and core support structures; Division 2 concrete containment vessels; Division 3 storage and transportation containments and their internal support structures for spent fuel and high-level radioactive material and waste; Division 4 components for fusion devices; and Division 5 (high temperature reactors) vessels, storage tanks, piping, pumps, valves, supports, core support structures and nonmetallic core components for use in nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities. Construction, as used in this charter, is an all-inclusive term that includes material, design, fabrication, installation, examination, testing, overpressure protection, inspection, stamping, and certification. These rules focus on assuring the pressure boundary integrity and the structural integrity, as applicable, of the component or item being constructed. 

    Key Subcommittees:
    B46 Classification and Designation of Surface Qualities Standards Committee
    The B46 Standards Committee covers Classification and Designation of Surface Qualities.  The 2019 edition of B46.1 includes additions to Appendix B on additive manufacturing that covers: references to standard AM terminology, characterization best practices, and other relevant standards; handling issues from cracks and porosity (similar to casting); and cautionary statements on limited knowledge base and wide range of AM systems and materials. The new Appendix K covers suggested terminology and procedures for the evaluation of functional correlations of surface textures with processing and performance.

    The B46 Project Team 53 on Surface Finish for Additive Manufacturing is developing further revisions to B46.1 to cover the distinct geometrics characteristics of surfaces created by additive manufacturing, since the 2019 edition features measurement and analysis methods developed primarily to characterize surfaces created by conventional machining and grinding. The revised B46 will explain how to find parameters that can describe the topography so they can correlate and discriminate between processing and performance parameters 

    Committee Page: https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=C30000000 

    Staff Contact: Shaimaa Khalifa khalifas@asme.org 

    Charter: Classification and designation of surfaces according to quality of surface. 

    Key Standards:
    • B46.1 – 2019 Surface Texture (Surface Roughness, Waviness, and Lay)
    BPTCS/BNCS Special Committee on Use of Additive Manufacturing for Pressure Retaining Equipment
    The Board on Pressure Technology Codes & Standards (BPTCS) and the Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards (BNCS) identified the potential need/use of Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing) as a process for the construction of pressure equipment. PTB-13 provides guidance on the essential elements to be addressed in standards for the construction of metallic pressure retaining equipment using powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. It is intended to be used as a reference document for proposals for additive manufacturing Code Cases or additions to codes and standards. Both laser and electron beam energy sources are permitted by this guideline. Hybrid construction incorporating AM components joined (welded or brazed) to non-AM components is acceptable. Design and fabrication of additive manufactured components joined to other AM components or non-AM components would follow the requirements for the applicable ASME construction code or standard. The Additive Manufacturer and the Powder Supplier maintain a quality program as defined by the construction code. 

    The Special Committee is currently working on a corresponding Additive Manufacturing Criteria Document for Direct Energy Deposition. It is also intended to be published as an ASME Pressure Technology Book.

    Committee Page: 
    https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=101029283 

    Staff Contact: Allyson Byk byka@asme.org

    Charter: To establish and maintain a standard for publication that provides the requirements for the construction of pressure equipment that utilizes additive manufacturing processes. Construction, as used in this charter, is limited to materials, design, fabrication, examination, inspection, testing, and certification.

    Key Standards:
    • PTB 13 – 2021 Criteria for Pressure Retaining Metallic Components Using Additive Manufacturing
    Bioprinters Standards Committee
    For bioprinting to advance in the complexity of tissues it can produce and be adopted more widely this method must be able to produce consistent, reproducible results. The Bioprinters Standards Committee will define standards for the range of desirable properties of bioprinters will facilitate advancements in bioprinting and bring broad benefits to the regenerative medicine community by accelerating the overall process of therapeutic product development. In particular, the BP Committee will focus on producing a Standard covering bioprinting equipment.

    Committee Page: https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=103616663

    Staff Contact: Fred Constantino constantinof@asme.org

    Charter: Develop, review, and maintain guidelines and standards for bioprinters hardware requirements.
     
    B89 Dimensional Metrology
    The B89 Standards Committee on Dimensional Metrology is comprised of experts in the field of Metrology and has published twenty-eight documents, including eight standards and technical reports within the B89.7 series on measurement uncertainty. They have twenty-six Project Teams that report to six Divisions.

    The B89.4.23 – 2020 X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT) Performance Evaluation Standard specifies the dimensional measurement accuracy of industrial X-ray computed tomography (CT) systems for length, size, and form measurands of sphere-based test objects made of homogeneous materials. Medical CT systems are outside the scope of this Standard.

    Committee Page: https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=C36000000 

    Staff Contact: Justin Cassamassino CassamassinoJ@ASME.org 

    Charter: The calibration, performance evaluation, uncertainty evaluation, and specification of dimensional measuring instruments and gages and the methods of their use for measuring various geometrical characteristics such as lengths, plane surfaces, angles, circles, cylinders, cones, spheres, and tori, as well as profiles. 

    Key Standards:
    • B89.4.23 – 2020 X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT) Performance Evaluation 
    • B89.7.1 – 2016 (R2021) Guidelines for Addressing Measurement Uncertainty in the Development and Application of ASME B89 Documents [Technical Report]
    • B89.7.2 – 2014 (R2019) Dimensional Measurement Planning
    • B89.7.3.1 – 2001 (R2024) Guidelines for Decision Rules: Considering Measurement Uncertainty in Determining Conformance to Specifications.  Work is underway to update this standard.
    • B89.7.3.2 – 2007 (R2021) Guidelines for the Evaluation of Dimensional Measurement Uncertainty [Technical Report]
    • B89.7.3.3 – 2002 (R2022) Guidelines for Assessing the Reliability of Dimensional Measurement Uncertainty Statements
    • B89.7.4.1 – 2005 (R2016) Measurement Uncertainty and Conformance Testing: Risk Analysis [Technical Report]
    • B89.7.5 – 2006 (R2016) Metrological Traceability of Dimensional Measurements to the SI Unit of Length [Technical Report].  Work is underway to update this to a standard.
    • B89.7.6 – 2019 (R2024) Guidelines for the Evaluation of Uncertainty of Test Values Associated with the Verification of Dimensional Measuring Instruments to their Performance Specification
    MAM Manufacturing and Advanced Manufacturing
    The MAM Manufacturing and Advanced Manufacturing Standards Committee was formed to coordinate, promote and foster the development of standards or related products that provide rules, guidance, and examples of the design, manufacture and quality assurance of additively manufactured parts or relating to advanced manufacturing. There are four subcommittees under the MAM Standards Committee in addition to the working group on additive manufacturing for nonmetallic materials applications.

    The MAM Nonmetallic Materials Extrusion (NMEx) Working Group will develop and maintain documents relating to nonmetallic, Materials Extrusion (ME), a type of Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3D Printing (3DP). Specific focus includes, but is not limited to, Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM®) types of ME.

    In 2019, the PHM Subcommittee on Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Prognostics for Manufacturing Operations developed a white paper, Determining When and Where PHM Should be Integrated into Manufacturing Operations to delineate the goals, scope, and benefit of implementing Prognostics & Health Management (PHM). It characterizes key considerations that should be kept in mind when addressing manufacturing problems or pain points with PHM technologies. The first draft of the white paper is available free of charge. 

    Committee Page: https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=102071609 

    Staff Contact: Justin Cassamassino cassamassinoJ@ASME.org

    Charter: The development and maintenance of standards and guidelines addressing manufacturing and advanced manufacturing. 

    Relevant Subcommittees/Working Groups:  Key Standards:
    • PHM-1-2025 Guideline for Manufacturing Prognostics and Health Management (PHM): Determining PHM Inclusion in Factory Operations
    • Upcoming Standard: IAM-1-20XX Investment Analysis Guidelines for Manufacturing. Under development.
    MBE Model Based Enterprise Standards Committee
    Areas of concentration for the MBE Model Based Enterprise Standards Committee include topics such as: types of models and their intended uses; rules for creating semantic PMI and its representation; types of features and data elements for model-based datasets; organizational schemas for datasets; managing links between product definition and process definition datasets; creating, managing and using technical data packages for product definition and process definition; rules governing the data quality of the model; managing discrepancies (between existing standards, data format standards, and other standards that affect model-based definition (MBD) and MBE).

    In 2018, the MBE Standards Committee developed the Model-Based Enterprise Standards Committee Recommendation Report, offering a brief background and motivation for MBE, and proposes a methodology for developing ASME MBE Standards using a model-based approach. 

    Committee Page: https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=102216151 

    Staff Contact: Fred Constantino constantinof@asme.org

    Charter: Develop standards or related products that provide rules, guidance, and examples for the creation, use and reuse of model-based datasets, data models, and related topics within a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE).

    Key Standards: 
    • MBE-1-2022 The Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) Framework.
    VVUQ Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification Standards Committee
    The VVUQ Standards Committee has nine subcommittees, divided by topic and industry application. The VVUQ Subcommittee 50 on Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification of Computational Modeling for Advanced Manufacturing provides procedures for verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) in modeling and computational simulation for advanced manufacturing and is divided into five subgroups on various topics relating to advanced manufacturing. The upcoming Standard VVUQ 50.1 Model Life Cycle will provide guidance for managing the Computational Model Life Cycle (CMLC).  The CMLC is used with Computational Models within Advanced Manufacturing Production Systems (AMPS).

    For additional information on the other eight VVUQ subcommittees. the annual VVUQ Symposium, and the Journal of VVUQ, visit https://www.asme.org/codes-standards/publications-information/verification-validation-uncertainty. 

    Committee Page: https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=100003367 

    Staff Contact: Lydia Stanford stanfordl@asme.org 

    Charter: Coordinate, promote, and foster the development of standards that provide procedures for assessing and quantifying the accuracy and credibility of computational models and simulations.

    Subcommittees/Relevant Working Groups: 
    Key Standards:
    • VVUQ 1-2022 Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification Terminology in Computational Modeling and Simulation. This Standard is available free of charge.
    • Upcoming Standard: VVUQ 50.1 – 20XX Guide for Verification, Validation, And Uncertainty Quantification (VVUQ): Interaction with Model Life Cycle. Under development.
    • V&V 10 – 2019 Standard for Verification and Validation in Computational Solid Mechanics
    • V&V 10.1 – 2012 (R2022) An Illustration of the Concepts of Verification and Validation in Computational Solid Mechanics. Revision in process.
    • VVUQ 10.2 – 2021 The Role of Uncertainty Quantification in Verification and Validation of Computational Solid Mechanics Models
    • V&V 20 – 2016 (R2021) Standard for Verification and Validation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
    • VVUQ 20.1 – 2024 Multivariate Metric for Validation

    Upcoming Standards:
    •    VVUQ 10.3 – 20XX Role of Validation Metrics in Verification and Validation of Computational Solid Mechanics Models
    •    VVUQ 20.2 – 20XX Simulation at an Application Point - Supplement 2 of ASME V&V 20 - Standard for Verification and Validation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
     
    Y14 Standards Committee on Engineering Product Definition and Related Documentation Practices
    The Y14 Standards Committee has twenty-six Subcommittees reporting to it. Together they have published twenty-two standards on topics ranging from engineering drawing practices and standardization to measurement data reporting practices and 3D model data organization schema. 
    The MBE & Y14 Joint Working Group is developing additional documents and Standards to address the needs of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, including a guide for implementing Y14 Standards in a model-based environment. 

    Committee Page: https://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=C64000000 

    Staff Contact: Fred Constantino constantinof@asme.org

    Charter: The development and maintenance of national standards for defining and documenting a product throughout its life cycle and related certification activities. This shall be accomplished by: 
    1. recognizing the continuing need for existing standards regardless of the source medium (e.g., paper, film, and digital) or method of preparation (e.g., manual or computer generated); 
    2. providing standardization where a variety of practices exist within industry and government; 
    3. providing standards for new concepts and technologies; and 
    4. supporting and coordinating development and harmonizing of standards with responsible standardization bodies, including ANSI, ISO, and government agencies. 

    Key Standards: