Session 1: Operations Engineering in Customer Driven Manufacturing

 

Stephen C. Graves is the Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management Science at MIT.  Since 1977 he has been a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has served as a deputy dean at the MIT Sloan School and as the co-director of the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) Program  and the System Design and Management (SDM) Program.   He served a two-year term as the Chair of the MIT Faculty, 2001 – 2003.

He teaches classes in supply chain planning and design, and in mathematical modeling and analysis, as applied to manufacturing, supply chains and distribution systems.  His primary research interests are in the design and planning of manufacturing systems and supply chains; recent efforts have considered supply-chain optimization, the evaluation of manufacturing flexibility and various tactical issues arising in e-retailing. He is the co-editor of two handbooks: Logistics of Production and Inventory and Supply Chain Management: Design, Coordination and Operation.  Graves has served on several editorial boards for journals in operations management and management science, and is currently the editor-in-chief of Manufacturing & Services Operations Management.   He has conducted industry-based research projects with numerous companies, including Amazon.com, AT&T, Boeing, Eastman Kodak, IBM, Intel, General Motors, Monsanto, Polaroid, Staples, and Teradyne. He is a member of the Board of Advisors to Optiant and Invistics, a chief science advisor to JDA Software, and a Fellow of INFORMS, MSOM and POMS.

  

Dev Pillai is Intel Fellow and Director of the Operational Decision Support Technology group in the Logic Technology Development group at Intel.    Dev is Intel’s first fellow whose technical expertise spans factory simulation & robotics automation. Intel fellows represent the highest levels of technical achievement in the company. 

He directs the development and proliferation of dynamic factory modeling, mathematical optimization and other advanced factory automation and information technology solutions across Intel’s wafer fabrication, sort, assembly, and test development and high-volume factories world-wide. He has been honored many times by his industry peers as one of the most influential engineers who defined the vision and industry direction for large-scale factory automation in 300mm semiconductor manufacturing.

Dev has published over 90 technical papers in IEEE, ISSM, SME, JES, IIE and SEMI publications on advanced manufacturing topics. He is also a frequently invited technical speaker at leading universities around the world. He has also authored chapters in the Handbook of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (published by Marcel Dekker) and in the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He has a patent on MEMS application.

Dev has a BS in mechanical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India, a MSIE specializing in computer aided processes from Arizona State University.
  

Ulrich Raschke received his Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the University of Michigan and is Sr. Product Manager for Human Simulation Technologies at Siemens PLM Software. His career spans over 20 years of experience in both commercial and academic arenas. He was involved with the early commercial development of machine vision technologies for flexible robotic assembly applications before returning to academia for research in the areas of robotics and biomechanics. His research has included the development of real-time obstacle avoidance algorithms in support of personal mobile robotic aids, and later the development of biomechanical models for prediction of injury risk during manual handling tasks. He has held a visiting industrial engineering professorship in South Korea, where he also consulted to companies on ergonomics based new product development. He has authored numerous book chapters and publications in the field of digital human modeling, including Ergonomics in Digital Environments in the Handbook of Industrial Engineering (published by Wiley). Currently, he leads the development of human simulation technology tools at Siemens PLM, used globally for human centered design of products and processes.

 

Session 2: Operations Engineering Towards Green Manufacturing Systems

Joseph Wolfsberger is Senior Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) for Eaton Corporation, a global diversified industrial manufacturer.  He is responsible for Eaton’s efforts to build and deploy world-class EHS practices utilizing the Eaton Business System.  Additionally, he globally oversees the company’s EHS programs.  Prior to coming to Eaton, Joe was with Baxter International where he served as Vice President, EHS.  Prior to that he held a variety of EHS leadership positions with Monsanto Company and the U.S. Department of Labor – Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He also held academic posts at Southern Illinois University and the University of Central Missouri.  Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology from the University of Missouri and a master’s degree in industrial hygiene from the University of Central Missouri.  He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Safety Professional, Registered Occupational Hygienist and Registered ISO 14001 Auditor. He is a member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, American Society of Safety Engineers, Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, American Academy of Industrial Hygiene, Board of Certified Safety Professionals and the Canadian Board of Registered Occupational Hygienists.

   

Steve Skerlos is Associate Professor and Chair of Graduate Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Michigan.  He researches and teaches in the fields of sustainable systems design, sustainable manufacturing, and technology policy.  As Director of the Environmental and Sustainable Technologies laboratory, he has co-authored over 100 scholarly publications, co-founded two start-up companies, and has overseen $9M of research and teaching programs. He was awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2000 and the College of Engineering Education Excellence Award in 2006. He has received other awards for research scholarship and education excellence from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers.

He currently co-directs a $2M National Science Foundation program studying the design of greenhouse gas policies for the automotive sector and their impact on markets and materials flows.

  

David Dornfeld received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 and is the Will C. Hall Family Chair in Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California Berkeley. He leads the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability - LMAS (lmas.berkeley.edu) with research activities in green and sustainable manufacturing; monitoring and analysis of manufacturing processes; precision manufacturing with specialization on chemical mechanical planarization for semiconductor manufacturing; and intelligent sensors and machine interoperability for process monitoring and optimization. He has published over 350 papers in these fields, authored two research monographs, contributed chapters to several books and has seven patents based on his research work. He is Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and recipient of the ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award in 1986, Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and a recipient of the 2004 SME Fredrick W. Taylor Research Medal, member of Japan Society of Precision Engineering (JSPE) and recipient of the 2005 JSPE Takagi Prize, and Fellow of the CIRP (International Academy for Production Engineering). He is a consultant on sensors, manufacturing productivity, automation and process modeling and the associated intellectual property issues. His blog is http://green-manufacturing.blogspot.com/.

 

Session 3: Operations Engineering in Defense System Acquisition, Manufacturing, and Maintenance

General Benjamin S. Griffin (ret.) assumed the duties of Commanding General, U.S. Army Material Command on November 5, 2004. Prior to this assignment, he served as the Department of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8.

General Griffin began his career when he was commissioned as an Infantry officer in July 1970 following graduation from Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia. He served two tours at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in the 82nd Airborne Division: in the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 508th Infantry as a rifle platoon leader and company executive officer, and in the 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 325th Infantry as a commander of Company C and a S-3 Air (Operations) officer. General Griffin also worked as a G3 operations officer, Headquarters, 82nd Airborne Division.

 

  

Mark McNitt is the Manufacturing Technology Development Manager at BAE Systems US Combat Systems, responsible for developing the enterprise's manufacturing technology strategy and implementing its technology roadmap.  He is responsible for acquiring and executing DoD ManTech programs and ensuring alignment between technology initiatives and the programs that BAE Systems supports.  Mr. McNitt has 16 years of experience in the Aerospace and Defense industries, including 14 years at BAE Systems in various Engineering leadership roles in design integration and armored structures development for the Crusader and FCS programs.  During his previous role as the Structures and Armor Manager for the FCS NLOS Cannon and Mortar vehicles, he led a partnership with Alcoa through the Army Lightweight Structures Initiative that achieved significant cost-effective weight reductions for the FCS program through advanced modeling and simulation techniques.  Mr. McNitt is the recipient of two BAE Systems Bronze Chairman's Awards for his leadership in the development of lightweight structures and for establishing collaboration across engineering and manufacturing functions.  Mr. McNitt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree in Management of Technology from the University of Minnesota's Technological Leadership Institute.

  

  

Dr. W. Peter Cherry is employed by Science Applications International Corporation, on the Army’s Brigade Combat Team Modernization program, the successor to the Future Combat Systems program on which he served as Chief Analyst. Prior to joining Science Applications International, he spent over 30 years with Vector Research Incorporated and its successor, the Altarum Institute.  Dr. Cherry was a member of the Army Science Board and has participated over the past ten years in independent reviews of the Army’s Science and Technology programs.  He has published in several operations research journals.  He served on the Board of Directors of the Military Operations Research Society and was chair of the Military Applications Society of the Operations Research Society of America. In 2001, Dr. Cherry was the co-winner of the Rist Prize awarded by the Military Operations Research Society and in 2003 was awarded the Steinhardt Prize by the Military Applications Society of INFORMS. He was also, in 2003, the recipient of the Engineering Alumni Society Merit Award in Industrial and Operations Engineering awarded by the University Of Michigan College of Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

 

  

NSF Workshop - Engineering the Operations of Future Manufacturing Systems

An NSF sponsored Workshop is being held to complement the Symposium. It will be directed by UM Professors Jack Hu and Yoram Koren. The participants in the Workshop listed below are from academia, industry and government agencies. They will meet before the Symposium to discuss how global competitiveness depends not just on what a new manufacturing process or technology can allegedly achieve, but also on how well a proposed new process or technology can contribute to the following types of strategic goals of an enterprise: 1) fast reconfiguration to meet rapid market changes with high quality and highly valued products, 2) low environmental impacts; 3) employment of workers with varied skill levels; and 4) conditions that assure worker health and safety. A panel comprised of the Workshop participants will present their initial recommendations at the Symposium and respond to comments and questions from Symposium attendees.

Workshop Participants

David Dornfeld, University of California Berkeley - please see Session 2 panel above.

Steve Forrest, University of Michigan - please see Speakers page for bio.

Yoram Koren, University of Michigan  - please see NSF Workshop on the Moderators page for bio.

Jack Hu, University of Michigan  - please see NSF Workshop on the Moderators page for bio.

Sridhar Kota, OSTP - please see Speakers page for bio.

Steve Skerlos, University of Michigan - please see Session 2 panel above.

Don Winter

 

Jian Cao, NWU (Ph.D. 1995, M.I.T.; Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University). Prof. Cao's research areas include the mechanics analysis and design of macro/micro-scale metal forming, composite sheet forming and laser processes.  Her recent work on surface texturing has led applications in the area of biofuel manufacturing and friction reduction.  Her work on incremental forming has the promise of rapid and flexible manufacturing of sheet metal parts with complex three-dimensional geometry. Prof. Cao is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an associate member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP). Prof. Cao is a recipient of many awards due to her research and teaching achievements, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, and the Young Investigator Award from the ASME Applied Mechanics Division. During her tenure at Northwestern, she took a one-year leave at General Motors in FY1996 and a two-year leave at the National Science Foundation in FY2004 and 2005 as a program director.  During that short two-year period at NSF, under her leadership, the World Technology Evaluation Study on Micromanufacturing was conducted and co-sponsored by four government agencies and more than ten NSF programs.

 

As vice president of IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, Josephine Cheng oversees more than 400 scientists and engineers doing exploratory and applied research in various hardware, software and service areas, including nanotechnology, materials science, storage systems, data management, web technologies, workplace practices and user interfaces. Prior to that, Josephine was a vice president, China Development Laboratory (CDL) , responsible for the software development for IBM Software Group. She led the development team of over 3000 employees located in 3 sites, Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei. Josephine has been at the forefront of relational database technology for more than 20 years. She is currently holding about 28 patents. Josephine is appointed to IBM Fellow in 2000. She received Asian American Engineer of the Year in 2003. She is inducted to United States National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

    

Dr. Amy Cohn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. She holds an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and a PhD in Operations Research from MIT. Her main research interest is in applied network design and discrete optimization problems, primarily in the areas of energy and aviation. Dr. Cohn is the Director of the Engineering Global Leadership program at U of M. She is also Chair of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section and an active member of the Industry Studies Association.

 

 

 

Dr. Gary Fischman is the Director of three boards at the National Academies – The Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design, the National Materials Advisory Board, and the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment.   He has worked in government, academia and with industry.  He has been the Director of Biomaterials and Technology in the College of Dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a research and consulting engineer at the US Food and Drug Administration, a tenured faculty member at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and cofounder of Xylon Ceramic Materials, Inc.  Over the years, Dr. Fischman has consulted in issues of hard materials for biomedical applications, adverse environments, ceramic materials development, and materials specifications for supplier/manufacturer coordination and sales.  He has worked with manufacturers to help develop strategy for business development dealing with ceramics biomedical applications and has served as an expert witness in the failure of hard components in medical devices.

 

Richard J. Furness received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1987, 1988, and 1992, respectively.  He is currently the manager of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development for Powertrain Manufacturing Engineering at Ford Motor Company.  In this position, he is responsible for leading and implementing technology developments into production to serve the global strategy and needs of Ford's Powertrain Operations.  His department is engaged in development in the following areas: assembly and test technology; in-process verification and process monitoring technology; machining equipment and processes; cutting tools; gauging; manufacturing system design; and metallurgical processes. The development projects within his department are leveraged through partnerships with suppliers, universities, research institutes, national laboratories, and consortia. He is a past chairman of the Executive Committee for the Manufacturing Engineering Division of ASME.  He served as an associate technical editor for the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering and the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

 

Howard Harary has been with the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 1985. He began in the Precision Engineering Division (PED) working in the area of dimensional metrology, especially the measurement of complex forms. While in MEL, he steadily progressed through positions of greater responsibility -- from bench to project leader to group leader of the (PED) Dimensional Metrology Group. After a one-year stint in NIST Program Office as a program analyst, he returned to MEL as a senior manager in the MEL Laboratory Office. He was appointed Deputy Director of MEL in October 2004  and Acting MEL Director in August 2007. He currently chairs the ISO TC213 working group on general requirements for dimensional measuring equipment.

   

 

Thom J. Hodgson is the James T. Ryan Distinguished University Professor, an Alumni Distinguished Research Professor, and the Director of the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute at North Carolina State University (NCSU).  He served as Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at NCSU (‘83-‘90); Director of the Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems at the National Science Foundation (‘91-‘93); Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Florida (‘70-‘83); Operations Research Analyst at Ford Motor Company (‘66-‘70); and an Officer in the U.S. Army (‘61-‘63).  He has a BSE (Science Engineering, ‘61), an MBA (Quantitative Methods, ‘65), and a Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering, ‘70), all from the University of Michigan.  His research interests include scheduling, logistics, production and inventory control, manufacturing systems, and applied and military operations research.  He is a Fellow of IIE and INFORMS, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.  He is the author or co-author of over 80 journal articles and book chapters.  He served as Associate Editor, Departmental Editor (‘81-‘84, ‘88-‘91), and Editor-in-Chief (‘84-‘88) of the IIE Transactions.  He served as a member of the U.S. Army Science Board (‘94-‘00).  He is a handball player and a former skydiving instructor.

   

   

Thomas R. Kurfess received his S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from M.I.T. in 1986, 1987 and 1989, respectively. He also received an S.M. degree from M.I.T. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1988. Following graduation, he joined Carnegie Mellon University where he rose to the rank of Associate Professor. In 1994 he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he rose to the rank of Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. In 2005 he was named Professor and BMW Chair of Manufacturing in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. He is also the Director of Automotive Engineering at Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research. He has served as a special consultant of the United Nations to the Government of Malaysia in the area of applied mechatronics and manufacturing, and as a participating guest at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in their Precision Engineering Program. His research focuses on the design and development of advanced systems targeting the automotive sector (OEM and supplier) including vehicle and production systems. He has significant experience in high precision manufacturing and metrology systems.

 

William S. Marras is a professor and holds the Honda Endowed Chair in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at the Ohio State University.  He also is the director of the Biodynamics Laboratory and the Center for Occupational Health in Automobile Manufacturing. He is also the Executive Director of the Insitute for Ergonomics. Dr. Marras holds joint appointments in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Physical Medicine, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. His research is centered on occupational biomechanics issues including workplace biomechanical epidemiologic studies, laboratory biomechanic studies, mathematical modeling, and clinical studies of the back and wrist.  His findings have been published in over 185 peer reviewed journal articles and numerous books and book chapters including a recent book entitled “The Working Back: A systems view.” His work has attracted national as well as international recognition.

  

 

Gene Meieran, Intel Senior Fellow, recently retired as a member of the Future Technology Division of Intel Research. Gene joined Intel in 1973 after 10 years at Fairchild Semiconductor as creator of Package Development, now Assembly-Test Development.  In 1987, he was elected as Distinguished Engineering Alumni by Purdue University. In 1998 Gene was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, Gene has taught technical courses on x-ray diffraction at Stanford and UC Berkeley, and has given seminars and invited talks to many Universities throughout the world. Gene has a Master's degree and a Doctor's degree in Material Science from MIT (1961 and 1963) and a B.S degree in Metallurgy from Purdue University (1959).

  

  

  

Jun Ni, UM 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

Paul Nuyen was named vice president of 747-8 Manufacturing and Everett Site Support in March 2009.  In this role, he oversees the production of the 747-8.  He also has overall leadership of Everett Manufacturing Services and 747/767/777 Quality. Previously, Nuyen served as vice president of manufacturing overseeing the manufacturing of all 747/767/777 airplane models.  In March 2008 to March 2009, Paul was asked to temporarily take on additional responsibility leading the Everett Field Operations and Delivery Center Organization. Nuyen also served as acting vice president and general manager of Boeing Fabrication, an operation of nearly 12,000 employees that serves as the largest supplier to Boeing Commercial Airplanes. In this role, Nuyen led the largest consolidated operation in the world dedicated to engineering and manufacturing aerospace parts, tools and assemblies.

 

  

Dr. Jianjun Shi is a professor and holds the Carolyn J. Stewart Chair Professorship at H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.  Before joined Georgia Tech in 2008, he was the G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan.  He got his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1987 respectively, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1992. Professor Shi's research interests focus on the fusion of advanced statistics, signal processing, control theory, and domain knowledge to develop methodologies for modeling, monitoring, diagnosis, and control for complex systems in a data rich environment.  Professor Shi is the founding chairperson of the Quality, Statistics and Reliability (QSR) Subdivision at INFORMS.  He currently serves as the Focus Issue Editor of IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE), a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), and a Fellow if Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), and also a member ASQ, SME, and ASA.

 

 

Susan Smyth is the Chief Scientist for Global Manufacturing at General Motors and the Director of the GM R&D Manufacturing Systems Research Lab. In this capacity, she directs the creation of GM’s global advanced manufacturing strategies and oversees innovation and implementation of GM’s advanced manufacturing portfolio.  Susan is recognized as one of GM’s key strategic technology leaders inside and outside General Motors. She chairs the Technology Leadership Council for Manufacturing at USCAR, the preeminent technical organization for pre-competitive  automotive technology. She is a member of Northwestern’s Master of Manufacturing Management executive governance Council at the Kellogg School of Management. Furthermore, she is an executive advisor to the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech.

 

 

Dr. John W. Sutherland is Professor and Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is one of the world’s leading authorities on the application of sustainability principles to design, manufacturing, and other industrial issues. He has contributed pioneering research and education achievements, and provided leadership to advancing the field of environmentally responsible design and manufacturing. Sutherland held a faculty position at Michigan Technological University from 1991-2009, and was Director of the Sustainable Futures Institute (SFI) at Michigan Tech from 2003-2009. He assumed his present position at Purdue in 2009. Sutherland’s research has been supported by a variety of government agencies, corporations, and private/foundation gifts. He has published nearly 250 papers in various journals and conference proceedings. He also co-authored the popular textbook, Statistical Quality Design and Control: Contemporary Concepts and Methods.

 

 

Dr. Bin Wei is a principal engineer at General Electric Global Research Center (GE GRC). He leads non-traditional manufacturing platform and develops manufacturing processes for different GE businesses including gas turbine division. Before joining GE his research and teaching was done at Nanjing Aeronautical and Aerospace, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Wichita State University.  Dr. Wei currently serves as chair of the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division Executive Committee and is a member of the SME NAMRI Science Committee.  He is also an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering.  Dr. Wei is the recipient of the ASME Blackall Machine and Gauge Award and GE Whitney Technology Achievement Award.   He holds over 30 patents and published 30 technical papers in manufacturing field. His current research interest is in gas turbine component non-traditional machining process development.