NIST’s current activities to build an interoperability testing and demonstration infrastructure will help you integrate your enterprise infrastructure for operational readiness. There are several test bed initiatives here at NIST to help you evaluate your current state and help you better ensure operational connectedness across your enterprise systems:

• Our Interoperability Test Bed project that is combining existing and emerging NIST-wide testing capabilities into a coherent, structured interoperability testing environment.  For more information on this project’s activities, contact Simon Frechette.

• Our existing Manufacturing B2B Testbed has been initiated to address the needs for demonstration and testing of B2B standards in a persistent environment that provides reusability, accumulation of organizational knowledge and lessons learned, coordination, and cost-sharing among the participants. The testbed is an on-going effort to mobilize software vendors, manufacturers, standards organizations, and other stake-holding parties to enhance the capability for on-demand demonstration and testing of interoperability of enterprise applications in a B2B setting. For more information, please visit our Manufacturing B2B Testbed website.

• NIST is collecting exemplar manufacturing applications and simulation tools needed to support the various integration scenarios from product engineering to supply-chain-supporting  business systems.  Where possible, commercial applications will be acquired; otherwise, prototype software will be developed. These applications will be demonstrated through our Virtual Manufacturing Environment Project.  For more information on this project’s activities, contact Chuck McLean

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