Infrastructure for Integrated Electronics Design and Manufacturing
Contact: John Messina
The Infrastructure for Integrated Electronics Design & Manufacturing (IIEDM) project contributes actively to the technical development of neutral data exchange specifications in order to support distributed supply chain integration and e-manufacturing activities. The IIEDM Project aids the growth of the electronics and semiconductor industries by providing technical expertise in an impartial forum in the development of standards and assistance in resolving interoperability issues between similar, and often conflicting, standardization efforts. The neutral nature of NIST allows industry consortia, academic institutions, and standards bodies to utilize the technical expertise of the IIEDM staff to improve their data exchange standards without concerns of favoritism or bias towards one particular technology or standard. This impartiality enables the IIEDM project to work with industry to solve data exchange issues the industry must deal with as a whole. Also, the IIEDM project focuses on helping the industry deal with multiple, conflicting, and often overlapping standards. Due to the nature of the Electronics industry, with no single organization dictating standards development, companies are often faced with no clear optimal choice when choosing data exchange standards. The IIEDM staff focus on creating environments in which companies can evaluate newly emerging standards and technologies and demonstrate how differing standards can interoperate successfully.
