INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REMOTE LASER WELDING &
THE RLW NAVIGATOR WORKSHOP
Ulsan and Seoul, South Korea, 4-6 November 2014
Darek Ceglarek, Ph.D.
Professor and EPSRC Research Chair
The Digital Laboratory, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick
Distinctions and affiliations:
– CIRP Fellow
– (Formerly) Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
– Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. (TASE)
– Associate Editor of ASME Trans., J. of Manufacturing Sci. and Eng.
Areas of expertise:
Automotive Assembly, Manufacturing systems, CAD/CAM, modeling
Statistical methods for design, control, and diagnostics
Digital simulation, life-cycle assessment/management
József Váncza, Ph.D.
Deputy Head of Laboratory
Laboratory on Engineering and Management Intelligence, Institute for
Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Distinctions and affiliations:
– Fellow, International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), Vice-chair
of STC O
– Scientific Adviser, Fraunhofer Project Center at SZTAKI for Production
Management and Informatics
– Associate Professor, Department of Manufacturing Science and Technology,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
– European Journal of Industrial Engineering, Associate Editor
– Knight’s Cross, Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
Areas of expertise:
– Production engineering and informatics
– Production in networks, coordination and cooperation, agent technology
– Production planning, scheduling and manufacturing process planning
Prof. Salvatore Gerbino, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Design and Methods of Industrial Engineering
DiBT Engineering Division, University of Molise, IT
Visiting Professor at the University of Naples Federico II, IT
Distinctions and affiliations:
- Member of the Board of Design and Methods Association (ADM)
- ASME Fellowship
- Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Strong research collaboration with Fraunhofer IWU
Areas of expertise:
Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Engineering
Assembly and Tolerance Design & Analysis of Rigid and Compliant parts
Reverse Engineering and Computational Analysis
Charles Marine
Process Development Engineer
Stadco Group, Telford, UK
Distinctions and affiliations:
BSc Mechanical Engineering – Kings College London
MSc Industrial Robotics – Cranfield Institute of Technology
Areas of expertise:
Automotive Body In White assembly process concept, feasibility and design
Automotive Body in White Launch site and project management
András Kovács, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
Laboratory on Engineering and Management Intelligence, Institute for
Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Distinctions and affiliations:
– Project Manager, Fraunhofer Project Center at SZTAKI for Production
Management and Informatics
– Member of the Editorial Board, European Journal of Industrial Engineering
– ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship
– Bolyai Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Areas of expertise:
– Combinatorial optimization, constraint programming
– Production planning, scheduling, process planning
Pasquale Franciosa, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
The Digital Laboratory, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of
Warwick
Distinctions and affiliations:
– Digital Lifecycle Management Group, the University of Warwick
– (Formerly) Research fellow at University of Molise (Italy)
– (Formerly) Teaching fellow at University of Naples (Italy)
Areas of expertise:
Product/process design analysis and optimization
Assembly process modelling & simulation
CAD/CAM and FEM programming, Remote Laser Welding, Root cause
analysis, In-process quality control, Digital simulation
Gábor Erdős, Ph.D.
Head, Process and Data Integration
Laboratory on Engineering and Management Intelligence, Institute for
Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Distinctions and affiliations:
– Project Manager, Fraunhofer Project Center at SZTAKI for Production
Management and Informatics
– Member of the IFToMM Committee for Multibody Dynamics
- Associate Professor, Department of Manufacturing Science and
Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
– Author of the multi-body simulation add-in package – called
LinkageDesigner – of Wolfram’s Mathematica
Areas of expertise:
– Computer aided mechanism modeling
– CAD-CAM-CNC integration
– Digital manufacturing
– Data mining
Marcello Colledani, Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Manufacturing and
Production Systems Lab, Politecnico di Milano
Research Associate at ITIA-CNR
Distinctions and affiliations:
– Associate Member of the CIRP (The International Academy for Production
Engineering)
– Affiliate Member of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control).
– Member of AITEM, Italian Association of Manufacturing Technology.
– Post-doc and Visiting Scientist at the Laboratory for Manufacturing and
Productivity (LMP) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
– Scientific Coordinator of the FP7 EU funded project MuProD.
- Scientific Leader of the Recycling Technologies and Systems Lab within
the De-manufacturing Pilot Plant installed at ITIA-CNR.
Areas of expertise:
Manufacturing systems modeling, analysis and design
Digital simulation and advanced analytics
Modeling and analysis of advanced recycling technologies and systems
Anil Mistry
Principal Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Department
Jaguar Land Rover, UK
Distinctions and affiliations:
Areas of expertise:
Joining and Manufacturing Process Technology
Low Weight Materials and BIW Structures.
Markus Kogel-Hollacher, Ph.D.
Head of of the R&D Department, Precitec Optronik GmbH
Distinctions and affiliations:
- PhD. Technical University of Berlin, 2008
- MS. Laser Technology, Fraunhofer Institute, 1994.
- MS. Physics RWTH Aachen, 1996
- Board of Directors at the Laser Institute of America
- Jury Member of the Innovation Award Laser Technology
Areas of expertise:
- Laser Technology,
- Laser Process Monitoring and Process Control
Jayanthi Tamilarasu
Technologies Engineer @ Comau Spa, Italy
Distinctions and affiliations:
- B.E Manufacturing Engineering, Anna University Chennai, India
- MSc Automotive Engineering, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
- Msc Industrial Automation- Industrial Masters (Comau+Polytechnic Univ of
Turin)
- Industrial experience with Volvo, Fiat, Ford and Chrysler
- R&D – New solutions with Laser applications
Areas of expertise:
Automotive Body in White Joining Technology
Automotive Assembly Processes
Laser Technology and Process quality
Antonio Taurisano
Project Manager
EnginSoft S.p.A., Italy
Distinctions and affiliations:
- MSc Mechanical Engineering – Polytechnic of Turin
- Emergent Methods & Technologies Group (EMT), EnginSoft
Areas of expertise:
R&D Project Management
Computer Aided Engineering
Emergent Methods and Tools for Fatigue Analysis
Development of Graphical User Interfaces for numerical tools
Hyungson Ki, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Mechanical and Advanced Materials Engineering, Ulsan National
Institute of Science and Technology
Distinctions and affiliations:
– PhD. Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
– (Formerly) Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department,
Michigan State University
Areas of expertise:
Laser Processing
Multiphysics Simulation
Duck Young Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Smart Factory Laboratory, Department of Human & Systems Engineering,
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Distinctions and affiliations:
– Society of CAD/CAM Engineers Fellow
– PhD. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
– (Formerly) Research Fellow, WMG, University of Warwick
Areas of expertise:
Interactive Simulation, Digital Manufacturing, Smart Factory Control,
Sensor Fusion in Operating & Maintenance