# Cybermanufacturing Systems

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/pd-16-018y-cybermanufacturing-systems/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359416

> U.S. National Science Foundation offered grants of up to $600,000 (at least $10,000) to any type of organization. It expected to make about 10 awards worth $3.0 million in total. It is no longer open on Grants.gov.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | PD-16-018Y |
| Agency | U.S. National Science Foundation |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | not set |
| Award ceiling | $600,000 |
| Award floor | $10,000 |
| Expected awards | 10 |
| Total funding | $3.0 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 47.041 |

## Who can apply

- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"

## What the grant funds

The Cybermanufacturing Systems (CM) Program supports fundamental research to enable the evolution of a wide range of network-accessed manufacturing services that: employ applications (or “apps”) that reside in the “cloud” and plug into an expansible, interactive architecture; are broadly accessible, guarantee reliable execution and have capabilities that are transparent to users; and are accessible at low cost to innovators and entrepreneurs, including both users and providers. Current manufacturing software applications are predominantly large, manufacturer-centric, general-purpose programs with theuniversal applicability needed to justify their development, marketing and acquisition costs. They usuallyhave broad capabilities, but are cumbersome to learn and often require expert intervention. There is an opportunity for researchers to pursue research and educational efforts to accelerate the creation of an interoperating, cross-process manufacturing service layer that enables the rapid, bottom-up transformation of access to manufacturing services. Such a service layer can allow creative entrepreneurs and companies to both furnish and access manufacturing apps that span the full spectrum from ideation to physical realization, giving rise to an era of “cybermanufacturing.” The cybermanufacturing service layer differs from existing Internet services in that it needs an architecture that can incrementally incorporate and organize the rich and deep semantic elements of manufacturing knowledge, requiring an almost unlimited capacity to expand the range and depth of content contributed in the form of partitioned, but interoperating, manufacturing applications. Such efforts are well-suited to incubation in universities, where potential service layer architectures and application modules can be prototyped at low cost, used in coursework and tested by students and faculty. Of particular interest is the exploration of the tradeoffs between generality and tractability in algorithmic representations of manufacturing knowledge. In the classic example, the automation of integrated circuit manufacturing depends on restricting device design options to those that can be produced with 100% reliability by a standardized set of manufacturing processes. As a result, the problem of compiling manufacturing instructions is made tractable by limiting available design options to those that can be manufactured using proven methods.

## Questions people ask

### Is NSF PD-16-018Y still open?

No. It is no longer open on Grants.gov. A newer notice is open: NSF 27-500, closes January 29, 2027 (83 days left).

### Who can apply for Cybermanufacturing Systems?

U.S. National Science Foundation accepted applications from any type of organization.

### What is the deadline for Cybermanufacturing Systems?

Closed. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $600,000 each. About $3.0 million in total across about 10 awards.

### Who has won Engineering grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Georgia Tech Research Corp, Purdue University, Regents of the University of Michigan. The program made 11,244 awards worth $4.3 billion in that time.