Manufacturing Innovation Fund (MIF) Direct loans, grants, and programs to support an array of initiatives (incumbent worker training, equipment purchases, marketing/outreach, etc.)
Chief Manufacturing Officer Advocates and coordinates state and private-sector efforts – for existing and prospective employers – to promote growth in the state’s manufacturing sector
Research, Development, and Demonstration Focused on digital thread impacts to the product development lifecycle. Take a virtual tour at MxD’s Future Factory in Chicago.
National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing MxD Cyber Initiatives have a primary focus on our nation’s small and medium manufacturers.
Building Digital and Cybersecurity Workforce Initiatives The Digital Manufacturing and Design Jobs Taxonomy The Hiring Guide for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing
CMM: Coordinate Measuring Machine, to measure the geometry of physical objects using various types of probes, used in inspection and quality control
CNC: Computerized Numerical Control, where programed software controls the movement of production equipment to create parts
CNM: Capability Network Maps are also called “Action Chain” graphics and provide a visual process of clustering and associating essential roles
DIB: Defense Industrial Base, the industries in a country that are important to produce military equipment
Digital thread: a seamless data flow which ensures that all the right information is available when and where it is needed
DMC: Defense Manufacturing Community
DMI: Digital Model Initiative, a project that outlines best practices and lessons-learned for small and medium-sized defense suppliers as they adopt Model-Based Definition (MBD)
DoD: Department of Defense
EBITDA: Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization, is a measure of a company’s overall financial performance
ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning provides high-level integration of data from many areas of a company, such as sales, supply chain operations, manufacturing, purchasing inventory, and more
EWI/VWI: Electronic Work Instructions refer to computerized visual tools to instruct shop floor workers to perform their jobs, Visual Work Instructions use graphics.
FAIR: First Article Inspection Report determines if the manufacturing process for a part is working correctly
GD&T: Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing defines and communicates engineering tolerances and relationships
Industry 4.0: the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which connects machines, people, and physical assets into an integrated digital ecosystem that seamlessly generates, analyzes and communicates data, and sometimes takes action based on that data without the need for human intervention
KPI: Key Performance Indicator
MBD: Model-Based Definition: an annotated 3D model which completely documents a part for manufacture
MES: Manufacturing Execution Systems track and document the transformation of raw materials to finished products
MIL-STD-31000: Military standard which describes the requirements for TDPs
MxD: Manufacturing times Digital is the national digital manufacturing and cybersecurity institute
NIST SP 800-171: National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-171, which lays out security requirements for defense contractors
OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturers
OLDCC: The DoD’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
PLM: Product Lifecycle Management brings together all aspects of a product’s design, definition, quality control, manufacturing process planning, product configuration and change management to make a product that is profitable and lasts as long as there is consumer demand.
PMI: Product Manufacturing Information, used interchangeably in this document with MBD, as the notes and the model are both needed for production
SCM: Supply chain management
SIRI: Smart Industry Readiness Index, the world’s first independent digital maturity assessment for manufacturers
