RICHARD D. BRAATZ
MIT, USA
Advances in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
Richard D. Braatz is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he does research in control theory and its application to biomedical, pharmaceutical, energy, and nanotechnology systems. He received MS and PhD degrees from the California Institute of Technology and was the Millennium Chair and Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University before moving to MIT. He has consulted or collaborated with more than 20 companies including IBM, United Technologies Corporation, Novartis, and Abbott Laboratories. His research has been recognized by the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the Engineering Research Council, the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, and the IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
Dr. DAN ZHANG
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Parallel Robotic Manipulators
and their Applications
Dr. Dan Zhang is Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in Robotics and Automation, founding Chair of the Department of Automotive, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering with the Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science at University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
He received his Ph.D. in Robotics and Mechatronics from Laval University, Canada,
in 2000.
Dr. Zhang's research interests include robotics and mechatronics; high performance parallel robotic machine development; sustainable/green manufacturing systems; micro/nano manipulation and MEMS devices (sensors), micro mobile robots and control of multi-robot cooperation, intelligent servo control system for the MEMS based high-performance micro-robot; web-based remote manipulation; rehabilitation robot and rescue robot.
Dr. Zhang has published 205 journal and conference papers, 4 books, 7 book chapters and numerous other technical publications. He is the editor-in-chief for International Journal of Mechanisms and Robotic Systems, the editor-in-chief for International Journal of Robotics Applications and Technologies, Associate editor for the International Journal of Robotics and Automation (ACTA publisher) and guest editors for other 4 international journals.
Dr. Zhang was director of Board of Directors at Durham Region Manufacturing Association, Canada. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and a Fellow of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), a Senior Member of IEEE and SME.
DETLEF ZUEHLKE
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI, Germany
INDUSTRIE 4.0 – The Future Manufacturing Paradigm
Detlef Zuehlke holds the chair for production automation at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology/Germany since 1991. He received MSc and PhD degrees from RWTH Aachen. After his PhD he joined Lufthansa German Airlines where he was responsible for the aircraft maintenance division as a general manager. Since 2008 he was appointed director of the innovative factory systems department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI in Kaiserslautern.
Furthermore, he is the founder and since 2005 chairman of the executive board of smartfactoryKL – an industry driven research and demonstration center for smart factory technologies, which is recognized as the birthplace of the Industrie 4.0 paradigm. He has been consulting many companies and organisations and has given numerous invited keynotes on national and international events.
His research has been recognized by the Borchers medal of honor, the medal of honor of the German Society of Engineers and the IFAC outstanding service award. He is a guest professor at the Univ. of Cincinnati and was awarded the honorate doctor degree from Sibiu University Romania.
Dr. Zuehlke has published over 200 journal and conference papers, 4 books, and numerous other technical publications. He is an affiliated member of IFAC where he was active in the technical board for a long time.
DAVID SIMCHI-LEVI
MIT, USA
Identifying Risks and Mitigating Disruptions in the Automotive Supply Chain
David Simchi-Levi is a Professor of Engineering
Systems at MIT and Chairman of OPS Rules Management Consultants, an operations strategy consulting company. He is considered one of the premier thought leaders in supply chain management.
His research focuses on developing and implementing robust and efficient techniques for logistics and manufacturing systems. He has published widely in professional journals on both practical and theoretical aspects of logistics and supply chain management.
Professor Simchi-Levi coauthored the books Managing the Supply Chain (McGraw-Hill, 2004), The Logic of Logistics (Springer 2005), as well as the award winning Designing and Managing the Supply Chain (McGraw-Hill, 2007). His new book Operations Rules: Delivering Customer Value through Flexible Operations was published by MIT Press in 2011.
Professor Simchi-Levi has consulted and collaborated extensively with private and public organizations.
He is the founder of LogicTools which provides software solutions and professional services for supply chain planning. LogicTools is now part of IBM.
MICHAEL PINEDO
New York University, USA
Advances in Production Planning and Scheduling
Michael Pinedo is the Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management in the department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences (IOMS) at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He received the Ir. degree in mechanical engineering from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (1973) and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley (1978). His research focuses on the modeling of production and service systems, and, more specifically, on the planning and scheduling of these systems. Recently, his research has also been focusing on operational risk in financial services.
He has (co-)authored numerous technical papers on these topics. He is author of "Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms and Systems'' (Springer), and "Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services'' (Springer), and coauthor of "Queueing Networks: Customers, Signals and Product Form Solutions'' (Wiley).
Over the last couple of decades he has been involved in industrial systems development. He supervised the design, development and implementation of two planning and scheduling systems for the International Paper Company. He also actively participated in the design and development of systems at Goldman Sachs, Philips Electronics, Siemens, and at Merck.