This tool uses techniques from ASTM E3200 for evaluating manufacturing investments from the perspective of environmentally sustainable manufacturing by pairing economic methods of investment analysis with environmental aspect of manufacturing. The economic techniques used include net present value, internal rate of return, payback period, and hurdle rate. These four techniques are deterministic, meaning that they deal with known values that are certain. The tool also conducts a sensitivity analysis using Monte Carlo techniques.

A linear axis testbed at the Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS Center) at the University of Cincinnati was run to failure (the detection of backlash) over one year with periodic data collected from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) on the carriage, two triaxial accelerometers on the ball nut, and the controller.

Simantha is a discrete event simulation package written in Python that is designed to model the behavior of discrete manufacturing systems. Specifically, it focuses on asynchronous production lines with finite buffers. It also provides functionality for modeling the degradation and maintenance of machines in these systems. Classes for five basic manufacturing objects are included: source, machine, buffer, sink, and maintainer. These objects can be defined by the user and configured in different ways to model various real-world manufacturing systems.

Contains Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) classification information for all Utility patent applications published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 2001 to present. It is available as XML with schemas or text monthly (usually by the 15th of the month).

Contains Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) classification information for all Utility patent grants issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 1790 to present. It is available as XML with schemas or text monthly (usually by the 15th of the month).

Contains the bibliographic text (front page) of each patent application (non-provisional utility and plant) published weekly (Thursdays) from March 15, 2001 to present (excludes images/drawings). Subset of the Patent Application Full Text Data.

Contains the full text of each patent application (non-provisional utility and plant) published weekly (Thursdays) from March 15, 2001 to present (excludes images/drawings). Subset of the Patent Application Full Text Data with Embedded TIFF Images.

Contains the full text, images/drawings, and complex work units (tables, mathematical expressions, chemical structures, and genetic sequence data) of each patent application (non-provisional utility and plant) published weekly (Thursdays) from March 15, 2001 to present.

Use this API to retrieve patent assignment information from the USPTO assignment search database and generate XML files with the search results. An XML file with search results contains a list of found documents and their categorization. For API, please use Chrome or Safari browser.

Contains daily (front file - Calendar Year 2022) and annual (backfile - August 1980 - December 31, 2021) patent assignment text (no drawings/images) derived from patent assignment recordations made at the USPTO.