invited talks & presentations

international invited talks (selected)

2024

• "Data-driven solutions and services for smart & sustainable manufacturing", Invited Seminar at ISE Dept., University of  Oklahoma, May 3, 2024, Norman, Oklahoma.

• "Digital transformation and data-driven solutions for smart manufacturing", Invited Seminar at ME Dept., University of South Carolina, April 22, 2024, Columbia, SC.

• "Data-driven solutions for smart & sustainable manufacturing", Invited Seminar at MABE Dept., University of Tennessee Knoxville, April 1, 2024, Knoxville, TN.

• "Digital Transformation – How Smart Manufacturing Technologies Enable Servitization", Speaker at Digital Transformation in Engineering Systems, UTEP, April 17, 2024, El Paso, TX.

• “#10. Professor Thorsten Wuest: What You Need to Know About Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0”, Frontiers with Ian Hallett, Podcast, February 14, 2024. link

2023

• "Data-driven solutions for smart & sustainable manufacturing", Invited Seminar at IMSE Dept., University of  Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Dec 13, 2023, El Paso, Texas.

• "The AI Evolution", WVMA Annual Meeting & Winter Convention, Dec 05, 2023, Bridgeport, WV. 

• “Improving Resiliency of Digital Supply Networks”, CESMII SMIC Grand Opening, Purdue University, Nov 30, 2023, West Lafayette, Indiana.

• "Data-driven solutions  for sustainable manufacturing", IFIP WG 5.7 Inspiration webinar, Nov 16, 2023, virtual.

• “Smart Manufacturing Technologies & Changing Business Models”, Keynote at Frontiers of Engineering Managment online seminar, Oct 16, 2023, US/China.

• "Meet the Editors (2); Production Systems and their Methods, Tools, and Technologies", representing RCIM and SSMS on the panel at APMS 2023, Sept 19, 2023, Trondheim, Norway.

• "Challenges for Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Research in Academia: A Case Study", APMS 2023, Sept 18, 2023, Trondheim, Norway.

• "CESMII SMIC Joint German-US Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing Research", 3-day workshop with TU Munich, Morgantown, WV, 07/31-08/02, 2023.

• "Reflections on two CESMII-funded projects" ,CESMII Technology Standing Committee, May 3, 2023.

• "Scalable curricula for Smart Manufacturing shop floor & machine tool data analytics", CESMII Educational Committee, May 1, 2023.

• "ConnectLive - Smart Manufacturign Eductation", ISA Smart Manfuacturing and IIoT division, Morgantown, WV, April 26, 2023.

2022

• "Welcome & Mass Production to Mass Customization", CESMII Smart Manufacturing Curriculum Workshop, Morgantown, WV, Dec 20, 2022.

• "System Approach to Automation", IMTS Student Competition Festo, Siemens, Sick, September 13, 2022, Chicago. IL link

• “Scalable curricula for Smart Manufacturing Shop floor & machine tool data analytics”, (w./ Anna Billey), AMT Student Event IMTS, Sept 13, 2022,  Chicago. IL.

• "The road to servitization of industrial assets & the role of smart manufacturing technologies", Sino German Symposium, September 9, 2022, Berlin, Germany (virtual).

• "The road to servitization of industrial assets & the role of smart manufacturing technologies", Keynote at Future of Field Service, Chicago, IL, June 15, 2022, 11:20-11:40 CT. link

• "Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing Resiliency" (with Jim Wetzel), Smart Manufacturing Experience, Pittsburgh, PA, June 7, 2022, 10:15 am- 10:45am. link

• "Status Quo of Smart Manufacturing Curricula offered by ABET acc. IE programs in the US", CESMII Educational Committee, virtual, May 26, 2022. 

• "Smart Manufacturing & Digital Transformation for SMEs", SMLC Symposium, April 15th, 2022, 2pm ET. 

• "Digital Supply Networks - Resilient Supply Chains through digital transformation and reimagined processes", Industry of Things World USA 2022, March 18, 2022, 3:30-4:00pm link

• "Smart Manufacturing in SMEs: The struggle & pathways to success", Invited Talk at Cambridge University's workshop on Low Cost Digitalisation for Manufacturing SMEs, February 23rd, 2022, 12:00-12:20pm CET. link

• "Applying Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Research and Training", Invited talk at Clarkson University on w/ Mike Nager (Festo), January 28th, 2022, 11am ET.

2021

• "Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Smart Manufacturing Systems", S&IE Seminar Series, University of Arizona, Systems & Ind Engineering Dept., (virtual) October 21st, 2021 link

• "Webinar 2. Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI: Applications and Opportunities", Data Science, Machine Learning, & AI Webinar Series. July 8th, 2021. link

• "Digital Supply Networks - Resilient Supply Chains Through Digital Transformation", Industry of Things World USA, San Diego, USA, July 16th, 2021. link

• "Self-Sensing Smart-Connected Products in Smart Manufacturing Systems", bluesky competition, finalists presentation, NAMRC, USA, June 24th, 2021. link

• "Industry 4.0 - technologies, business mdoel implications, lessons from COVID-19", WVU Industrial Extension Seminar Series (webinar), Morgantown, WV, USA, May 20st, 2021. 

• "Industry 4.0 Technologies & Services", Seminar Lucerne University of Applied Sciecnes & Arts, Luzern, Switzerland, March 9th, 2021.

• “Opening Keynote: Harnessing the power of the Digital Supply Network (DSN) in Pharma to drive performance and mitigate risk”, Digital Supply Network Strategies, Future Insights Network, February 25th, 2021 link

• "The New Supply Chain Paradigm: Digital Supply Networks", VIEW TransformTV Panel, February 22nd, 2021. link

• "Supply Chain 4.0: Innovative Concepts and Methods Driving Transformation", IISE webinar. January, 25th, 2021. link

2020

• "Interview with the authors of 'Digital Supply Networks' book", Podcast Series: Future of Manufacturing. December, 9th, 2020. link

• “Manufacturing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, WMF 2020 Report Presentation, Cernobbio, Italy. (virtual) November 12th, 2020. link

• "Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Smart Manufacturing Systems", Plenary III, World Manufacturing Forum (WMF) North America, Phoenix, AZ, (virtual) November 11th, 2020. link

• "Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Smart Manufacturing Systems", Graduate Seminar, University of North Texas, Mechanical Engineering, (virtual) November 4th, 2020. link

• "AI in Smart Manufacturing Systems", Guest Lecture, University of North Florida, Mechanncial Engineering (virtual), October 26th, 2020.

• “Innovations in Smart Manufacturing”, Transform Live – The Supply Chain Transformation Channel, October 22nd, 2020. link

• “Resilient Digital Supply Networks”, Keynote at Production Council of Swedish Produktion2030 programme, Chalmers Univeristy, Goeteborg, Sweden, September 17th, 2020.

• "Transforming Digital Supply Networks", InfoSys Knowledge Institute Podcast, October 10th, 2020. link

• “Digital Supply Networks”, NeXt LIVE seminar series, University of South Carolina, September 11th, 2020. 

• "Digital Supply Networks", Future Insights Network (FIN TV), w/ Amit Sinha & Rafael Calderon, September 10th, 2020. link - youtube  - spotify (audio only) - Podbean (audio only) 

• "AI in Smart Manufacturing Systems", Graduate Seminar, University of Iowa, Industrial and Systems Engineering, (virtual) September 10th, 2020.  link  video

• "AI in Smart Manufacturing Systems", Quartz Network Impact Virtual Smart Manufacturing and R&D, (virtual) August 25th, 2020. link

• "Digital Transformation and the Social Factory of Things, Services and People", Panel Discussion - APMS 2020, Novi Sad, Serbia. 

• "Supply Chain Resiliency", 6 Degrees of Smart Manufacturing Webcast, August 12th, 2020. link; link to recording; link to bonus reel 

• "Advances in the Smart Factory", Keynote at the IFIP 17th Int'l Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Zurich, Switzerland, July 7th, 2020. link

• "Vantage Ventures Real Talk Series", Vantage Ventures, (virtual) July 21st, 2020. 

• "Aftermarket Reopen: Supplier Guidelines and Best Practices", Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association (AASA) webinar series, May 12th, 2020. link

• "Switching Gears - Manufacturing Opportunities Learned from COVID-19". Coming back from COVID-19 Webinar Series. May 18, 2020, 11am. link

2019

• "Prepared for Industry 4.0? Technology, Automation, & Skills", Keynote at SRG Global - Assembly Best Practice Meeting, December 5th, 2019, Covington, GA. 

• “Additive Manufacturing (AM) - Unleashing freedom of design & imagination”, 2019 Research Summit of STARs in West Virginia, STARs: Students, Teachers, And Researchers, November 16th, 2019, Morgantown, WV. link

• “Towards Smart Production Management Systems: Things, Services and People”. Panel discussion together w/ Dr. Boonserm Kulvatunyou, NIST, Dr. Irene Roda, PoliMi, Dr. David Romero, Tec de Monterrey, September 4th, 2019, Austin, TX, USA.

• “The APMS Conference and IFIP WG5.7 in the 21st Century - A Bibliometric Study”. Keynote at Int’l Conference for Advances in Production Management Systems, September 2, 2019, Austin, TX, USA.

• "Künstliche Intelligenz in der Produktion" [Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Systems]. Invited talk - ETH Zürich – POM Network Abendgespräch 2019, May 28 2019, Zurich, Switzerland. link

• "Robot ≠ Robot - Understanding the field and identifying opportunity" Keynote at Advancing Manufacturing with Automation & Robotics Workshop, May 7th, 2019, Charleston, WV, USA.

• "The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Implications for Future Engineers" Seminar Youngstown State University, April 29th, 2019, Youngstown, OH, USA.

• “IoT-enabled Smart Manufacturing in Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)” Industry of Things World USA, March 7th, 2019, San Diego, USA. link

• “The Impact of Industry 4.0 on Business Models” WVU Lunch'n'Learn Webinar, January 22nd, 2019, international audience. link

2018

• “Smart Manufacturing and the Fourth Industrial Revolution” WVU IISE, November 5th, 2018, Morgantown, WV, USA.

• "Smart Manufacturing for SMM - Opportunities and Challenges" NIST Industry Forum. May, 9th, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

• "Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 - Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs" Keynote - 1st Industry 4.0 School and Industry Night, February 18th, Kelowna, BC, Canada.

2017

• "Opportunities for Innovations in Smart Advanced Manufacturing" Panel discussion together w/ Dr. Rob Ivester, DoE AMO & Dr. Kirk Rogers, GE Center for Additive Tech. Adv., October 25th, Southpointe, PA, USA.

• “Smart Manufacturing in SMEs”. IFIP WG 5.7 Research Workshop. September 6th, 2017, Hamburg, Germany.

2016

• "Smart Manufacturing & Why Industrial & Systems Engineering are needed more than ever". Seminar at Texas Tech University, December 1st, 2016, Lubbock, TX, USA.

• "Technologies Enabling PSS Operations Management" (3.5h). IPSS Doctoral Spring School, Operations Management Methods and Technologies for PSS Delivery. University of Brescia & University of Bergamo. 17. June, 2016, Brescia, Italy.

• "Smart Manufacturing - the US Industrie 4.0? ...and how is that related to energy?". NEXT Energy Symposium. CascadeUse Research Group, University of Oldenburg. 10. June, 2016, Oldenburg, Germany.

• "Smart Manufacturing: Computer Science, Data Analytics, and Manufacturing working together". Graduate Seminar, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University. 9. March, 2016, Morgantown, WV, USA.

2015

• "From individual processes to holistic manufacturing systems - enriching data by accumulation of states". National Institute for Standards and Technology, 13. November, 2015, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

• "From individual processes to holistic manufacturing systems - enriching data by accumulation of states". Invited seminar keynote at Aoyama-Gakuin University. 10. September, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.

• “Improving process and product quality using machine learning”. Keynote-Speaker at Seminar Industrial Recycling as a Business Opportunity for the Region of Tarapaca [Reciclaje Industrial como Oportunidad de Negocios de la Region de Tarapaca]. 16. April 2015, Iquique, Chile. link

presentations (selected)

• "Challenges for Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Research in Academia: A Case Study", APMS 2023, Sept 18, 2023, Trondheim, Norway.

• “Cascade Use - preserving value to enable the circular economy”, IACMI WG Recycling/Circular Economy (virtual), Morgantown, WV, USA, May 20th, 2021.

• “Data-driven context awareness of smart products in discrete smart manufacturing system”, 5th International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence, Bremen, Germany, (virtual) Nov. 11th, 2020. link

• "Practicalities of Adoption: Small & Medium-Sized Businesses", Chair Panel Discussion, NIST Manufacturing Supply Chain Traceability with Blockchain, October 27th, 2020. link

• “Smart Products in Smart Manufacturing Systems: An Opportunity to Utilize AR?”, (virtual) APMS 2020, Novi Sad, Serbia. 

• "Digital Transformation and the Social Factory of Things, Services and People", Panel Discussion - APMS 2020, Novi Sad, Serbia.

• "Industry 4.0 @WVU - Approach at UG and Graduate Level" Industry 4.0 Workshop, December 11th, 2019, Morgantown, WV.

• “Smart Manufacturing and the Fourth Industrial Revolution” WVU IISE, November 5th, 2018, Morgantown, WV, USA.

• "Towards a Smart Manufacturing Maturity Model for SMEs (SM3E)" Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) 2018, August 28, 2018, Seoul, South Korea. 

• "Towards a Smart Manufacturing Toolkit for SME" 15th Int'l Conference on Product Lifecycle Management. July 3, Torino, Italy. 

• "Holistic Approach to Machine Tool Data Analytics". NIST/OAGi Workshop: Enabling Composable Service-Oriented Manufacturing Systems. April, 24th, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

• "Supply Chain Management & Smart Manufacturing" WVU Leadership, October 27th, Morgantown, WV. USA.

• "Smart Manufacturing for SMEs" (w/ Patrick Schmidt). Industry Workshop. October 19th, Wheeling, WV, USA.

• “Identifying Key Aspects of Success for PSS”. International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) 2017. 3. - 7. September, 2017, Hamburg, Germany.

• "Advanced and Smart Manufacturing - Opportunities and Implications for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises". Industry Workshop. August 24, 2017. Princeton, WV, USA. 

• "Internet of Things Research and innovation at WVU". 'IoT Showcase' at the House Commerce and Energy Committee. June 13, 2017. Washington DC, USA. 

• "Secure COmmunications Internet Of thiNgs (SCOrpION)". Presentation at NIST. June 12, 2017. Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

• "Smart Manufacturing & Industry 4.0 at WVU". Presentation at Project Meeting, April 17., 2017. York Technical College, SC, USA.

• "Interoperability framework for Smart Manufacturing integration in SMEs - a US/German collaboration”. Presentation at CIRP Winter Meeting, February 15th, 2016, Paris, France.

• “Smart Manufacturing & PLM”. PLM North America meeting 2016, October 17-18., 2016, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA.  

• "Smart Manufacturing: Characteristics and Technologies". International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2016, July 11-13., 2016, Columbia, SC, USA.

• "Design and Development of Product Service Systems (PSS) - Impact of Product Lifecycle Perspective". 3rd International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence. 13. June, 2016 Paderborn, Germany.

• "Smart Manufacturing - Quo Vadis? (A research perspective)". Graduate Seminar, IMSE Department, Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia University. 9. October, 2015, Morgantown, WV, USA.

• "Smart Manufacturing - Quo Vadis? (Implications on Industry)". Keynote presentation at IE Academy and IMSE Visiting Committee event. 25. September, 2015, Old Art Museum, Morgantown, WV, USA.

• "Challenges of heavy load logistics in global maritime supply chains". International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) 2015, Innovative Production Management towards sustainable Growth: Service, Manufacturing, and Resilient Supply Chain. 5. - 9. September, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.

• “Utilization of Manufacturing State Drivers to Support Design”. 25th CIRP Design Conference - Innovative Product Creation. 2. - 4. March 2015, Haifa, Israel.

• “Product Requirement Modeling and Optimization Method based on Product Configuration Design”. 25th CIRP Design Conference - Innovative Product Creation. 2. - 4. March 2015, Haifa, Israel.

• “Introduction and Research Topics”. CIRP Winter Meeting - RA Meeting. 18. - 20. February, 2015, Paris, France.

• “Data quality in materials science: A Quality Management Manual approach”. International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) 2014, Innovative and knowledge-based production management in a global-local world. 20. - 24. September, 2014, Ajaccio, France.

• “Applying graph theory and the product state concept in manufacturing.” 2nd International Conference on System-integrated Intelligence: New Challenges for Product and Production Engineering. 2. - 4. July, 2014, Bremen, Germany.

• “Application of Prospect Theory on Car Sharing Product Service System.” 6th CIRP IPS2 Conference Industrial Product-Service Systems, 1. - 2. May, 2014, Windsor, Canada.

• “Application of the stage gate model in production supporting quality management.” 47th CIRP CMS Conference Manufacturing Systems, 28. - 30. April, 2014, Windsor, Canada.

• “Towards an approach to identify the optimal instant of time for information capturing in supply chains.”, International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS 2013) - Sustainable Production and Service Supply Chains, 9. - 12. September, 2013, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.

• “An information system for research data in material science.“, invited talk, Helmholtz Open Access Workshop „Open Access to Publications and Data in the Research Field ‚Structure of Matter‘ of the Helmholtz Association”, 10. - 11. June, 2013, Hamburg, Germany. link

• “Digital Representation of Intelligent Products: Product Avatar 2.0.”, 23rd CIRP Design Conference – Smart Product Engineering, 11. - 13. March, 2013, Bochum, Germany.

• “Understanding Product State Relations within Manufacturing Processes.”, International Conference of Advances in Production Management Systems, 24. - 26. September, 2012, Rhodes Island, Greece.

• “Analysis of Manufacturing Process Sequences, using Machine Learning on Intermediate Product States (as Process Proxy Data).”, International Conference of Advances in Production Management Systems, 24. - 26. September, 2012, Rhodes Island, Greece.

• “Product state based view and machine learning: A suitable approach to increase quality?”, 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, 23. - 25. May, 2012, Bucharest, Romania.

• 3rd International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics (LDIC 2012) – Doctoral Workshop, 27. February - 2. March, 2012, Bremen, Germany.

• “Tool to identify relevant product state characteristics for improved information management along distributed production process chains.”, International Conference of Advances in Production Management Systems – Doctoral Workshop, 24. September, 2011, Stavanger, Norway.

• “Challenges for grown engineering SMEs with a diverse product portfolio on information management and product tracking and tracing.”, International Conference of Advances in Production Management Systems, 26. - 28. September, 2011, Stavanger, Norway.

• “Method to Describe Interdependencies of State Characteristics Related to Distortion.”, 3rd International Conference on Distortion Engineering, 14. - 16. September 2011, Bremen, Germany

• “State of steel products in industrial production processes.”, 11th International Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Materials. 5. - 9. June, 2011, Como, Italy

• "Wissens- und Datenmanagement des SFB 570 „Distortion Engineering.", Symposium "Wissenschaftliche Portale und Informationsnetzwerke, 2. March, 2010, Bremen, Germany.

• "Leitfaden für strategische Beschaffungsplanung auf regulierten Rohstoffmärkten.“, BIBA Forum, 23rd November, 2009, Bremen, Germany.

• “Guide to a Strategic Procurement Planning Approach on Regulated Commodity Markets.”, 10th IFIP 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2009. 7. - 9. October 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece.