-> Join our team! We are looking for motivated Ph.D. & M.S. researchers in Smart Mfg, AI/ML, Federated Learning, & Blockchain etc. to join us!
[12/10/2024] New paper alert II (lightning strikes twice sometimes) - Check out "Modelling resilience dynamics for smart manufacturing systems: quantification and empirical analysis" published in the International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (IJCIM) with Shreyanshu Parhi, Kanchan Joshi, Thorsten Wuest, & Milind Akarte -> link
[12/09/2024] New paper alert - I discuss the manufacturing data challenge and how hybrid modelling might be a approach to address it in the new paper: "Hybrid Analytics in Smart Manufacturing Systems – Addressing the Manufacturing Data Challenge" in ASTM's Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems. Check it out here (open access): link
[12/06/2024] Congratulations to Dr. Mojitaba Farahani for passing his Ph.D. defense today with flying colors! Well done and we are excited to continue having you on the team as a PostDoc come January!
[11/21/2024] Welcome to our newest team member (starting Fall'25) Md Rokibul Islam joining us from Bangladesh!
[11/20/2024] Excited to connect with the ISM community and give a keynote speech on "AI in Smart Manufacturing Systems – Today and Tomorrow" at the International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM 2024) in Prague, Czech Republic. link
[11/12/2024] Discussed "Best Practices and Standards for Digital Twins" (Panel 3) at the DOE-NSF Workshop on Digital Twins for Manufacturing at UCONN on Nov 12, 2024 with the who is who in the field. link
[11/07/2024] Always good to reconnect with old friends and make new ones - great panel on "ALL ABOUT AI: How your company can leverage artificial intelligence to enhance production and increase success" at the SC Manufacturing Conference, Greenville, SC. link
[10/17/2024] Welcome to our newest team member (starting Jan'25) Irfan Khan joining us from Texas!
[10/14/2024] Honored to participate in the World Manufacturing Form as part of the "WMF Panel II: “Influx of Technology: Technological Tipping Points for Competitive Manufacturing", in Milan, Italy.
[10/11/2024] Presented on "Applied Artificial Intelligence in Smart Manufacturing Systems", in the AI-ification Series at The USC AI Institute in Columbia, SC.
[10/02/2024] I was interviewed by Kei'Yona Jordan at Fox News regarding the ongoing issue of the strike affecting harbor operations around automation and AI -> State leaders warn port strike could threaten supply and demand.
[07/06/2024) Congrats to Austin on publishing your first, first author peer reviewed paper! -> Harper, A. & Wuest, T. (2024). An Explorative Study of AI Applications in Composite Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing. APMS 2024. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (AICT), vol 731, p. 233–247. Springer, Cham. DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-71633-1_17. link
[08/08/2024) Congratulations Josselyne for having your article Suppliers 4.0 Digital Capabilities Development in Support of Digital Supply Chains: A Scoping Review accepted in the International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications journal w/ David Romero, Claudia Lizette Garay Rondero, Roberto Pinto, & Thorsten Wuest. The article is the first comprehensive study comparing state of the art classification algorithms specifically on manufacturing time-series data sets.
[07/21/2024) Congratulations Moji for having your article Time-Series Classification in Smart Manufacturing Systems: An Experimental Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Algorithms accepted published in the premier Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM) journal w/ Matt McCormick, Ramy Harik, & Thorsten Wuest. The article is the first comprehensive study comparing state of the art classification algorithms specifically on manufacturing time-series data sets.
[07/15/2024) Matt presented his work on the real-time data set methodology to industry today.
[08/16/2024) I will be joining the University of South Carolina as of August'24 as Full Professor with tenure in Mechanical Engineering.
[05/28/2024] Matt earned the NAMRC Outstanding Reviewer award for his valuable contribution to the scientific program at NAMRC 52. Especially pleased as this is not only hard earned by providing in-depth, constructive feedback that helps the authors improve their papers, but this award normally goes to faculty not PhD students. Well done Matt!
[05/28/2024] Congrats Moji for getting your abstract “Time-Series Classification in Smart Manufacturing Systems” accepted for publication at INFORMS.
[05/28/2024] Sayantee's paper "Bottleneck Management through Strategic Sequencing in Smart Manufacturing Systems" published in SSMS w/ Imtiaz Ahmed, John Saldanha, Khaled Medini, & Thorsten Wuest now available open access.
[05/24/2024] Makenzie's research featured in New Equipment Digest: 'Fun Innovations Friday: Game On: How Gamification Transforms Mundane Assembly Tasks Into Motivating Challenges'
[05/17/2024] Congrats to Fadi El Kalach for getting his paper accepted in Joournal of Intelligent Manufacturing on 'Cognitive Manufacturing: Definition and Current Trends'!
[05/15/2024] Congrats to Austin Harper and Prince Khan for getting their APMS papers accepted! Well done!
[05/14/2024] Organized 'AI in Manufacturing Workshop Series: Digital Supply Chain Networks in the Age of AI' at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN w/ Ragu Athinarayanan.
[05/14/2024] Keynote on "Transform your Supply Chain and Gain Competitive Advantage with Disruptive Technology and Reimagined Processes" at the AI in Manufacturing Workshop Series: Digital Supply Chain Networks in the Age of AI, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
[05/03/2024] Seminar on "Data-driven solutions and services for smart & sustainable manufacturing" at the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
[04/22/2024] Seminar on "Digital transformation and data-driven solutions for smart manufacturing" at the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
[04/17/2024] Gave keynote at the Digital Transformation in Engineering Systems workshp on "Digital Transformation – How Smart Manufacturing Technologies Enable Servitization" at UTEP, El Paso, TX.
[04/09/2024] Our alumni Anna won the Statler Excellence in Research - MS award for her work on Energy Digital Twins! Congratulations Anna!
[03/28/2024] Congrats Sayantee for getting your paper "Bottleneck Management through Strategic Sequencing in Smart Manufacturing Systems" published in SSMS w/ Imtiaz Ahmed, John Saldanha, Khaled Medini, & Thorsten Wuest.
[03/28/2024] Elisa's paper on "An Integrated Quality 4.0 Framework for Quality Improvement Based on Six Sigma and Machine Learning Techniques Towards Zero-Defect Manufacturing" just got published in The TQM Journal w/ David Romero, Julieta Noguez, & Thorsten Wuest.
[03/25/2024] New feature on our Gamification work led by Makenzie in WVU News.
[03/21/2024] We received a new award from NSF's Manufacturing Systems Integration (MSI) Program: "EAGER: Private Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning Framework for Distributed Manufacturing Networks". Excited to get to work!
[03/20/2024] Congratulations to PhD CANDIDATE Moji Farahani successfully defending his PhD proposal today!
[02/21/2024] Mike and I reflect on the major challenges to resurrect the arsenal of democracy in this piece for IndustryWeek: "It’s Time to Revisit the ‘Arsenal of Democracy.’ Including Smaller Manufacturers Is Key".
[01/27/2024] Congrats to Moji and Fadi for having their paper on 'High-resolution time-series classification in smart manufacturing systems' accepted with minor revisions in Manufacturing Letters (NAMRC) w./ Mojtaba Farahani, Fadi Kalach, Ramy Harik, & Thorsten Wuest.
[01/25/2024] Anna's article on 'Energy Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Case Study' was published in the top-tier journal Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM)! What a wonderful finale of her time as a team member in our lab! Check it out here: (50 free copies)
[01/19/2024] Makenzie's article on 'The Effects of Gamification for Manufacturing (GfM) on Workers and Production in Industrial Assembly' w/ Makenzie Dolly, Ashish Nimbarte, & Thorsten Wuest was published in the premier journal Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM)! (50 free copies)
[01/18/2024] 2024 is starting off well: Congrats to Sathish and the team on the new paper published open-access titled: 'Physics-Based and Data-Driven Hybrid Modeling in Manufacturing: A Review' in the journal Production & Manufacturing Research w/ Sathish Kasilingam, Ruoyu Yang, Shubhendu Singh, Mojtaba Farahani, Rahul Rai, & Thorsten Wuest.
[01/17/2024] Congratulations to the final piece of Anna's MS journey falling into place: Her paper 'Energy Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Case Study' was accepted by the top-tier journal Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM). Congratulations Anna, a worthy outcome testament of your excellent work!
[01/12/2024] New paper available stemming from the fruitful visit of Philipp to our lab last year and the ongoing colbaboration with KIT: 'Generalizability of an Identification Approach for Machine Control Signals in Brownfield Production Environments' in Procedia CIRP (open access) w/ Philipp Gönnheimer, Robin Ströbel, Roman Dörflinger, Marcel Mattes, Philipp Alexander, Thorsten Wuest, & Jürgen Fleischer.
[01/09/2024] Congrats to Makenzie for having her paper 'The Effects of Gamification for Manufacturing (GfM) on Workers and Production in Industrial Assembly' accepted in the premier Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM) journal w/ Ashish Nimbarte & Thorsten Wuest.
[01/04/2024] Joint paper 'Physics-Based and Data-Driven Hybrid Modeling in Manufacturing: A Review' w/ Sathish Kasilingam, Ruoyu Yang, Shubh Singh, Rahul Rai, & Thorsten Wuest accepted in Production & Manufacturing Research.
[01/02/2024] Our paper on 'Equipment Upgrade Service Provision in the context of Servitization: Drivers, Capabilities, and Resources' was published in Production Planning & Control w/ Muztoba Khan, Oliver Stoll, Shaun West, & Thorsten Wuest
[12/13/2023] Wonderful seminar at UTEP IMSE on "Data-driven solutions for smart & sustainable manufacturing" in El Paso.
[12/05/2023] Spoke together with Michael O'Brien on today's panel on 'Evolution of AI' at WVMA's 8th Annual Meeting Winter Convention. Great questions by an interested audience, including WV Senator Swope. Thanks to Rebecca McPhail for the invite & organization!
[11/30/2023] Kicking off our joint CESMII SMIC with Purdue and UNF and opening of Purdue's excellent Smart Manufacturing Lab facilities today.
[11/28/2023] New World Manufacturing Foundation Report 2023 released: New Business Models for the Manufacturing of the Future
[11/16/2023] Great discussion after presenting on "Data-driven solutions for sustainable manufacturing" as part of the IFIP WG 5.7 SIG Inspiration webinar series - Thanks Melanie and Federica for the invite!
[10/24-26/2023] Attended a fantastic SouthTec with Matt, Prince, and Carlos in Greenville, SC.
[10/09/2023] Our teams' two recent papers are now available in Manfuacturing Letters: i) Billey, A. & Wuest, T. (2023). Energy Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing Systems. Manufacturing Letters, 35, 1318-1325. DOI 10.1016/j.mfglet.2023.08.047 (shortlisted as a candidate for Student Research Presentation (SRP) competition at NAMRC 51); & ii) Era, I., Farahani, M., Wuest, T., & Liu, Z. (2023). Machine Learning in Directed Energy Deposition (DED) Additive Manufacturing: A State-of-the-art Review. Manufacturing Letters, 35, 689-700. DOI 10.1016/j.mfglet.2023.08.079
[10/05/2023] According to updated 2023 Stanford study on #Top2percent of leading global scientists my own ‘rank’ improved to 55,804 (from 67,671 last year) total and 604 (from 580 last year) for IE, and thus is reassuring in its trend over the past years.
[10/05/2023] New pre-print of Moji's newest paper 'Time-Series Classification in Smart Manufacturing Systems: An Experimental Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Algorithms' - check it out and learn about our findings from the largest empirical study of time-series classification (TSC) algorithms in the manufacturing domain to-date!
[09/27/2023] Invited to speak on 'The AI Evolution' at the WVMA Annual Meeting & Winter Convention (Dec 05, 2023).
[09/06/2023] Updated and published our inaugural work on manufacturing time-series: The paper "Multivariate Time-Series Classification of Critical Events from Industrial Drying Hopper Operations: A Deep Learning Approach" is published was accepted by the Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing as a featured paper!
[07/27/2023] Check out our brand new paper on 'Human Digital Twins in the context of Industry 5.0' w/ Baicun Wang, Huiying Zhou, Xingyu Li, Geng Yang, Pai Zheng, Ci Song, Yixiu Yuan, Thorsten Wuest, Huayong Yang, & Lihui Wang, published in Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.
[05/25/2023] Moji's and Matt's paper 'Time-Series Pattern Recognition in Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Literature Review and Ontology' was accepted by published in the premier Journal of Manufacturing Systems!
[04/20/2023] Congratulations Anna Billey for successfully defending your Industrial Engineering Master's thesis on 'Energy Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing Systems' today and the wonderful work you have been doing over the last two years! We (the committee w/ Zhichao Liu, Yuhe Tian, and Thorsten Wuest) were very impressed by your results, motivation, and drive. I personally am very proud of you and what you accomplished! Good luck on your next adventure at Toyota North America.
[04/17/2023] Welcome to the team Carlos! Carlos is working on our NSF effort with Matt and Moji and focus on Digital Twin development. Currently an UG researcher, he will be pursuing a M.S. in IE come Fall'23.
[04/15/2023] Congratulations to (soon to be officially Dr.) Makenzie Dolly, the newest Ph.D. graduate from our lab! Makenzie successfully defended her dissertation titled 'Analysis of the Psychological and Production Effects of the Use of Gamification for Manufacturing Assembly' today in front of a international dissertation committee. The members of the committee are Dr. Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge (KTH University, Sweden), Dr. Mélanie Despeisse (Chalmers Univeristy, Sweden), Dr. Zhichao Liu, Dr. Ashish Nimbarte, and myself.
[03/30/2023] So proud of our awesome UG researcher Isabelle and her mentor Makenzie for being named Honorable Mention in the 2023 WVU Award for Outstanding Publication by an Undergraduate Researcher in a competitive process for their paper 'Current State of Research and Outlook of Gamification for Manufacturing'.
[03/21/2023] Included in Onalytics 'Who’s Who in Industry 4.0? Top 50 Influencers to Follow' 2023 list of influencers.
[03/21/2023] Our paper on 'Building win-win value networks for product-service systems’ delivery' w./ Sophie Peillon & Khaled Medini was appected for publication in the International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management.
[03/17/2023] Congratulations to our Lab Alumni Juergen Lenz for the new faculty position at University of Applied Sciences Augsbug, Germany!
[03/16/2023] Our paper on 'Manufacturing Cybersecurity Threat Attributes and Countermeasures: Review, Meta- Taxonomy, and Use Cases of Cyberattack Taxonomies' led by Habibor Rahman and Mohammed Shafae was accepted by the Journal of Manufacturing Systems.
[03/08/2023] Anna's paper 'Energy Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Literature Review' was shortlisted as a candidate for Student Research Presentation (SRP) competition at NAMRC 51. Congratulations Anna!
[03/08/2023] Congratulations to Israt and Moji for having their paper 'Machine Learning in Directed Energy Deposition (DED) Additive Manufacturing: A State-of-the-art Review' accepted at NAMRC 51 for publication in Manufacturing Letters!
[03/08/2023] Congratulations to Anna for having her paper 'Energy Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Literature Review' accepted at NAMRC 51 for publication in Manufacturing Letters!
[03/10/2023] Hosting IMSE Graduate Seminar with Guest Speaker Dr. Mohamed Shafae (University of Arizona) titled 'Toward Cyber-Physical Secure and Resilient Smart Manufacturing Systems'.
[02/04/2023] Shout-out to Moji and Matt for getting their paper 'Time-Series Pattern Recognition in Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Literature Review and Ontology' accepted with minor revisions by the premier Journal of Manufacturing Systems in the first round!
[01/19/2023] Article by Peggy Smedley on 'The Underpinnings of Industry 5.0' based on our recent conversation published in Connected World.
[01/13/2023] Our new paper 'Description Model of Smart Connected Devices in Smart Manufacturing Systems' now available in Procedia Computer Science w/ Juergen Lenz & Dominik Lucke.
[12/27/2022] Reached 6,666 citations on GS today - what are the chances of hitting that particular number exactly? 🤔
[12/20/2022] Our WVU Smart Manfuacturing Lab's very own Makenzie accepted a position as Teaching Assistant Professor at WVU IMSE starting in Fall'23! We all couldn't be more proud of her!
[12/20/2022] Hosted our CESMII Smart Manfuacturing Curriculum Workshop for Educators at WVU with our partners Festo Didactics.
[12/07/2022] Congratulations Makenzie for recieving the very competitive WVU Foundation Distinguished Doctoral Scholarship!
[11/25/2022] The 2022 World Manufacturing Report on 'Redesigning Supply Chains in the new Era of Manufacturing' released!
[11/17/2022] Congratulations to Sayantee Roy for successfully defending your MS IE Thesis on "Bottleneck Management through Strategic Sequencing in Smart Manufacturing Systems" - a challenging topic & excellent job in combining experimental & simulated data to compare algorithms for sequencing.
[11/10/2022] Vist by Randy Kenworthy, Partner at West Monroe, discussing collaboration opportunities, and he gave an exciting guest lecture to our Smart Manfuacturing students.
[09/21/2022] John Howard MD, the Director of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health references our work on 'Machine Learning in Manufacturing' in his new article on 'Algorithms and the Future of Work'.
[10/04/2022] New Paper Alert: Putting the controversial new term 'Industry 5.0' into perspective: 'Industry 5.0: Prospect and retrospect. 'Journal of Manufacturing Systems' w./ Leng, J., Sha, W., Wang, B., Zheng, P., Zhuang, C., Liu, Q., Wuest, T., Mourtzis, D., & Wang, L., published in Journal of Manufacturing System.
[09/21/2022] New Paper Alert IV: Rabiul Hasan's new APMS paper on 'A Review of Sustainable Composites Supply Chains' investigating this growing space available online.
[09/19/2022] New Paper Alert V: Our paper on 'Status Quo of Smart Manufacturing Curricula offered by ABET accredited Industrial Engineering programs in the US' was published in Manufacturing Letters.
[09/16/2022] New Paper Alert I: Makenzie & Isabelle spearheaded the paper on 'The Classification of Game Elements for Manufacturing' at APMS 2022.
[09/16/2022] New Paper Alert II: Tao and the team did incredible work on scheduling in SMS: 'Dynamic scheduling with online predicted order remaining completion time considering production uncertainty: A simulation study' at APMS 2022.
[09/16/2022] New Paper Alert III: Melanie, Frederica, & David looked into a 'Thematic Research Framework for Eco-efficient and Circular Industrial Systems' at APMS 2022.
[09/13/2022] Presenting our research funded by CESMII at IMTS, Chicago w./ Sathish Kasilingam & Anna Billey. -> link
[08/22/2022] Our paper on Pattern Recognition in Multivariate Time Series:Towards an Automated Event Detection Method for SMS received Editor's Choice award from JMMP.
[08/06/2022] Joint paper titled "Automated manufacturability analysis in smart manufacturing systems: a signature mapping method for product-centered digital twins" w./ Ramy Harik and Kaishu Xia published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
[07/08/2022] Makenzie's paper "Current State of Research and Outlook of Gamification for Manufacturing" published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems.
[06/30/2022] Milica presented her apper on Smart Manufacturing Curricula at ABET IE programs in teh US at NAMRC 50 (w./ Anna ).
[06/28/2022] Sathish presented his research as a finalist at the NAMRC 50 competition.
[06/21/2022] Congratulations to Makenzie & Isabelle for their first high-impact journal publication being accepted with minor revisions.
[06/16/2022] Hosted Smart Manufacturing session for middle schoolers (1 of 5 this summer!) as part of our CESMII curriculum evaluation w./ Makenzie, Milica, Anna, & Mike.
[06/15/2022] Keynote on "The road to servitization of industrial assests & the role of smart manfuacturing technologies" at Future of Field Service, Chicago, IL, June 15, 2022, 11:20-11:40 CT. link
[06/07/2022] Discussing "Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing Resiliency" (with Jim Wetzel) at Smart Manufacturing Experience, Pittsburgh, PA, June 7, 2022, 10:15 am- 10:45am. link
[05/26/2022] Presented Smart Manufacturing Curriculum study to CESMII Edu Committee w/ Milica, Anna, Makenzie, and Mike.
[04/26/2022] Sathish was selected as finalists for the ASME/SME Student Manufacturing Design Competition at NAMRC 50. Congratulations!
[04/22/2022] Congratulations to Jenna for the 'IMSE UG Student Researcher of the Year Award' AND the 'IMSE Outstanding Senior Award (2022)'! We are so very proud of you!
[04/22/2022] Congratulations to Robert for the 'IMSE Outstanding Senior Award (2022)'! Well deserved and looking forward what you will accomplish next!
[04/22/2022] Congratulations to Makenzie for the 'IMSE Graduate Student Researcher of the Year Award'! We are very proud of your accomplishments!
[04/20/2022] New paper led by Muztoba Khan w/ Shaun West & Oliver Stoll on 'Equipment upgrade service provision in the context of servitization: drivers, capabilities, and resources' in Production Planing & Control.
[04/15/2022] Hosted AMI Roundtable webinar on 'Smart Manufacturing in SMEs: The Struggle & Pathways Towards Success'.
[04/01/2022] Grateful to receive the 2022 Statler Outstanding Researcher of the Year/Senior award and even more grateful for the amazing team that made this possible in the first place! Thank you!
[03/23/2022] Listen to an episode of the Peggy Smedley Show on Smart Manufacturing and the Supply Chain.
[03/22/2022] Congrats Mili & Anna for being awarded a NSF travel grant to attend NAMRC 50 to present your research!
[03/18/2022] Serving on Scientific Committee for CIPR LCE 2023 - Enabling Absolute Sustainability and the Circular Economy using Data and Insight.
[03/17/2022] Invited talk on Digital Supply Networks at the Industry of Things World USA conference in San Diego.
[03/13/2022] Thankful that the global research community found out work relevant and worthy of citing it over 5,000 times to-date (Google Scholar).
[03/07/2022] New paper accepted "Equipment Upgrade Service Provision in the context of Servitization: Drivers, Capabilities, and Resources" in Production, Planning & Control, lead by Muztoba Khan, w./ Shaun West & Oliver Stoll.
[03/07/2022] Will be talking about "Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing Resiliency" with Jim Wetzel at the Smart Manufacturing Experience, Pittsburgh, PA, on June 2, 2022, 10:15 am - 10:45am.
[03/03/2022] New paper on 'Factors Affecting Industry 4.0 Adoption - A Hybrid SEM-ANN Approach' accepted in Computers & Industrial Engineering w/ Parhi, S., Joshi, K., & Akarte, M..
[02/24/2022] New book chapter released on The Triple Bottom Line of Smart Manufacturing Technologies.
[02/23/2022] Featured among the 20 Manufacturing Innovators and Thought Leaders You Should Know by Matics Manufacturing Analytics
[02/23/2022] Join the Cambridge University's SYMPOSIUM ON LOW-COST DIGITALISATION FOR MANUFACTURING SMES - we'll present our view on how to help SMEs together with Thomas Kurfess, Dimitris Kiritsis, Duncan McFarlane, et al.
[02/16/2022] Joined forces with Dr. Guha Manogharan to edit the 'Sustainable Manufacturing' volume of Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies (2nd edition / link shows 1st ed).
[02/14/2022] Recorded an episode of the Peggy Smedley Show - to be released soon, so stay tuned!
[01/28/2022] Invited talk at Clarkson University on 'Applying Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Research and Training' w/ Mike Nager (Festo).
[01/25/2022] Contributed to the article 'Upgrading the production line' by Workflow.
[01/11/2022] Accepted Associate Editor position for Elsevier's Robotics & Computer-Integrated Manufacturing journal.
[01/08/2022] Accepted Editorial Board position with T&F's Production & Manufacturing Research (PMR) journal.
[01/01/2022] Welcome Matt (Ph.D. student), Rabiul (M.S. student), Robert and Frank (both B.S.) to the team!
[01/05/2022] New paper w/ Khaled and Rodrigo on 'A DMAIC framework to improve quality and sustainability in Additive Manufacturing – a case study' published in Sustainability
[12/18/2021] Featured in PR Newswire on OAGi SME Express Pack release.
[12/08/2021] Speaker at Industry of Things World USA 2022 on Digital Supply Networks March 18, 2022, 3:30-4:00pm
[10/26-28/2021] CIRPe 2021 is LIVE!
[10/21/2021] The 2021 World Manufacturing Foundation report on 'digitally enabled circular economy' is now available!
[10/20/2021] Our edited volume in Procedia CIRP was just published w/ Khaled Medini.
[10/20/2021] Congratulations to Sathish (A Bibliometric Analysis of Physics-Based and Data-Driven Hybrid Modeling) and Milica (Image Based Quality Inspection in Smart Manufacturing Systems:A Literature Review) for their first-author papers published today!
[10/20/2021] New paper lead by Khaled on A Decision Support System to Operationalize Customer-Centric Sustainability published in Procedia CIRP.
[09/16/2021] We were awarded a 3.8 million dollar collaborative project titled 'RII Track 2 FEC: Enabling Factory to Factory (F2F) Networking for Future Manufacturing' lead by PI Dr. Harik at UofSC from NSF. (-> NSF accouncement)
[09/10/2021] Humbled to received the 2021 WVU Value Coin
[09/03/2021] Serving as opponent at Ph.D. defense of Maja Baerring (Chalmers) on 'From Data to Decision Support in Manufacturing'
[06/11/2021] Digital Supply Networks included in '25 Manufacturing Books That Will Boos Your Business'
[08/23/2021] Congrats to Sathish, Mili, Moji, & Makenzie to their newly accepted peer-reviewed publications (2x CIRPe, 1x APMS)!
[08/17/2021] Digital Supply Networks No 3 of the '5 Books You Need to Read on Supply Chain Management' by SDC Supply & Demand Chain Executive
[08/13/2021] Welcome to our newest lab members Anna and Isabelle!
[07/21/2021] Guest Editor for Special Issue on 'Human-Centered Smart Manufacturing' in Journal of Manufacturing Systems
[07/16/2021] Invited talk at Industry of Things World USA on 'Digital Supply Networks - Resilient Supply Chains thropugh Digital Transformation'
[07/13/2021] Congrats to Rafi for successfully defending his MS tehsis today!
[07/05/2021] New paper 'Smart Wearable and Collaborative Technologies for the Operator 4.0 in the Present and Post-COVID Digital Manufacturing Worlds' in ASTM's Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems
[06/28/2021] Article on Creating a more Resilient Supply Chain with our contribution available at the Composites Manufacturing Magazine
[06/23/2021] book Digital Supply Networks is now available as an Audiobook
[06/17/2021] Listed in Who's Who in Industry 4.0 by onalytica
[06/10/2021] Selected as finalist for the 2021 NAMRI/SME Blue Sky Competition David Dornfeld Manfuacturign Vision Award funded by NSF
[05/25/2021] Honored to receive the IISE/Joint Publisher Book-of-the-Year award for Digital Supply Networks
[05/24/2021] New paper published titled 'Developing a Multi-Agent System to Support Multi-Variant Production Ramp-Up Management' published in SSMS w/ Khaled Medini & David Romero
[05/06/2021] Lab member Josh Gross graduates asa 2021 WVU Outstanding Senior - CONGRATULATIONS JOSH!!!
[04/21/2021] Wuest to serve on IPC of LDIC'21 conference
[04/20/2021] Wuest to serve on Advisory Board of WVU Industrial Extension (2021-)
[04/15/2021] Wuest to serve on Advisory Board (AB-1: Smart Manufacturing & Aviation/Aerospace) for the new Digital Twin platform by Taylor & Francis
[04/13/2021] Ranked among top 2% of global scientists by Baas et al. (2020), data available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.2
[03/22/2021] Jointly organized by Mines St. Etienne and WVU, the CIRPe 2021 conference website is live!
[03/16/2021] Wuest named among 2021 Pros to Know Awardees by Supply & Demand Chain Executive
[03/15/2021] Wuest to serve on the WVU Faculty Senate 2021-2024
[03/03/2021] Jenna & our WVU SMlab featured in Manufacturing USA Highlights report (p. 88).
[03/01/2021] REMADE Institute selects our project 'Repurposing of FRP Composites Using Next-Generation Technology' for funding!
[02/25/2021] Presenting opening keynote at PHARMA Digital Supply Network Strategies conference w/ Dr. Dai (JHU) & Sinha (Deloitte)
[02/22/2021] V.I.E.W. Panel on 'The New Supply Chain Paradigm: Digital Supply Networks' by TransformTV
[02/13/2021] New paper 'Product-Service Systems Evolution in the Era of Industry 4.0' accepted in Service Business (open access)
[02/10/2021] New paper 'Configurators as a means to Leverage Customer-Centric Sustainable Systems - Evidence from the 3D-Printing Domain' published in Procedia CIRP
[02/03/2021] Featured in IndustryWeek: 'A Manufacturing ‘Google’ Could Be a Breakthrough for Reshoring'
[01/25/2021] Join Benoit Montreuil and me at the IISE webinar on 'Supply Chain 4.0: Innovative Concepts and Methods Driving Transformation'
[01/21/2021] New paper 'Decision support for the implementation of Industry 4.0 methods: Toolbox, Assessment and Implementation Sequences for Industry 4.0' published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems
[01/13/2021] Featured profile at WVU Foundation
[01/05/2021] Welcome to our newest team member Sathish Kasilingam
[12/11/2020] Featured in Deloitte Podcast series on Future of Manufacturing
[12/-4/2020] New Op-Ed To program robots is human, to problem-solve is divine in SME's Smart Manufacutring Magazine
[11/13/2020] Received Commended Paper Award at SysInt 2020 Conference
[11/12/2020] Presenting the 2020 World Manufacturing Report: Manufacturing in the Age of Artifical Intelligence w/ Marco Taisch & David Romero