Prof. e.h., Dr.-Ing, MBA, Leader “Digital Manufacturing 4.0", Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, FhG-IAO
- Areas of Interests:
Modeling, simulation, optimization and visualization of products, factories and technical processes along their life cycle. PLM-centered IT infrastructures for product development, process planning and factory life cycle. SOA, GRID and Cloud environments for manufacturing
- PhD and ERASMUS Supervisions (GSaME- Graduate School of Excellence advanced Manufacturing Engineering, ERASMUS Office, University of Stuttgart): 2012 – to date, Topics – Adaptable Manufacturing, Digital Factory, Engineering of Meta-Products, Direct Digital Manufacturing
- 2013, October - Member, High Level Steering Committee of the Let’s 2014 (“Leading Enabling Technologies for Societal challenges”)
- 2008 – to date: German Engineers Association (VDI), „Digital Factory 4499“ (Expert Groups: Digital Factory, Digital Factory Operation, Data Models and Architectures for Digital Factory, Environment Influences in the Digital Factory), „Modelling and Simulation 3633“, DKE Arbeitsgremium K931 (Deutsche Kommision Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik im DIN und VDE)