Session date time: September 3^rd 2022 :: 9:00-9:45

Concept of Lean Learning Factory at the University of Split

In this research, a concept of the Triple helix model connected via the Learning Factory concept is presented. Learning Factory could be placed where University, Industry and Government meet each other, share needs and expectations, and work on collaborative projects. It could be a solution to a missing link in the Triple helix model. Lean Learning Factory at FESB, based on a didactical concept emphasizing experimental and problem-based learning using tools and methods from Lean management, have true potential to play an important role in the regional development of Split-Dalmatian County and its industrial enterprises. Solution proposal for the best balance between toys and real products consider design and production line development for product “Karet”. It is a traditional and original product from Croatia, so it will raise enthusiasm in the learning process in both students and industry employees. Two assembly lines will be developed, one traditionally equipped and one intelligent, networked, flexible, and fully improved by Lean tools. By deeper analysis of both assembly lines, hybrid assembly lines could be designed, to balance on one side assembly tact time according to customer demand and total cost of installation and running on the other side. Methods and tools adapted and implemented, in both design and analysis process for optimization of this hybrid assembly line would be scaled and adjusted for industry use as part of knowledge transfer from university to enterprises.

Prof. Dr. Ivica VEZA

Professor Ivica Veža is the Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture of the University of Split, Croatia. He received his B.Sc. in 1975, M.Sc.in 1980 and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, all from University of Zagreb. He has been a guest researcher for three years at the Fraunhofer institutes IPA in Stuttgart and IPK in Berlin and RWTH WZL in Aachen. He has been to Nagoya University, Technical University of Vienna and University of Malta as a guest professor. He has run several international projects: TEMPUS, CEEPUS, ERASMUS, two bilateral Slovenian-Croatian projects, several technology projects for BICRO, Croatian Institute of Technology and other. He has been the leader of 12 international and 11 domestic scientific projects and has participated in 46 projects on economy. He published 11 books, 14 chapters in scientific books and he was the author of 42 articles in journals and 172 conference papers. He has supervised more than 15 PhD and M.Sc. students. He is a member of the Croatian Academy of Technical Sciences since 2000, is a member European Academy of Industrial Management since 2009 and is the leader of Croatia's technological platform for the European Initiative since 2005. He was also a member of the Management Board of the Technology Centre in Split between 2000 and 2007. He also initiated and managed the introduction of Industrial Engineering study as a unique study between FESB and Faculty of Economics. From 2008 to 2013, professor led the project TEMPUS-2008-IT-JPCR 144959, a master program in Product Lifecycle Management with Sustainable Production, where a new course PLM was introduced in the graduate study of Industrial Engineering. In May 2011, at PTW in Darmstadt, he signed the agreement with the representatives of 10 European universities to start an initiative to build a Learning Factory, which aims a new paradigm for the education for engineers. He is the Vice President of Lean Management Initiative which was established in 2010 in Zagreb. Professor Veža’s research areas include lean production, plant layout, computer integrated manufacturing, modeling and simulation, production management, logistics.

Session date time: September 3^rd 2022 :: 9:45-10:30

Intelligent Machinery Technology

The intelligent machinery technology center has been focusing on machine tool technology, which includes machine tool design, machining process optimization and intelligent software for machine tool operator as well as shop floor managers. These technologies have been implemented and transferred to industrial partners, however for most small and medium companies in Taiwan it is still not easy to figure out what are the necessary building blocks of an intelligent manufacturing shop floor. Moreover, building such an intelligent shop floor calls for large scale investment, therefore a pilot production site is needed to integrate and demonstrate full scenario of an intelligent shop floor. The pilot production site is a government supported project with the following objectives:

• To construct a shop floor which consist of machines from Taiwan machine tool companies and controllers as well as software
• To construct a shop floor which consist of machines from Taiwan machine tool companies and controllers as well as software
• To demonstrate mixed production use cases of real industrial parts from industrial sectors such as bicycle, automotive, aerospace and other machinery
• To establish cloud computing infrastructure and collect process data from production use cases
• To help other research institutes and universities with developing data-driven applications using cloud computing infrastructure and process data base.

In order to conduct intelligent and flexible manufacturing in a shop floor, shop floor equipment must be connected with management and business system. In the pilot production site this is achieved by the IoT software system called VMX. The VMX system acts as the backbone of the information flow of the shop floor, which collect data from machine tools, robots, automated guided vehicle (AGV) as well as coordinate measuring machine (CMM). The process data from shop floor are then communicated with the manufacturing execution system (MES), which is responsible to collect production orders from enterprise resource planning system (ERP) and execute in shop floor. In addition to demonstrate current technology, the pilot production will also be used as a testbed to help research teams verifying emerging technology such as 5G for industrial application and common cloud computing solution platform for machinery industry. ITRI shall continue to update the hardware and software in the pilot production site and link with universities, research institutes, and industry by using iot and cloud computing technology to conduct more research and development projects for intelligent manufacturing

Dr. Tzou-Liang LUO (Derek LUO)

Dr. Derek Luo is division director of Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Division at Intelligent Machinery Technology Center, ITRI. He is also a corporate Member of CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering) , Full Member of CSME (Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers), visiting Researcher of UBC (University of British Columbia) and 4th Board of Director of Tan-Ya-San Industry Association. and He got his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering all from Department of Mechanical Engineering of National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan R.O.C. Derek Luo was Engineer in Mechanical and Systems Research Laboratories in ITRI between 2012 and 2013, then he has promoted to Deputy Director of Intelligent Machine Tool Technology Center, Central Region Campus, ITRI on 2014. Later on 2015 He became Director of Intelligence Manufacturing Technology Division, Machine Tools Technology Center, ITRI and finally since 2016 he is the Director of Intelligence Manufacturing Technology Division, Intelligent Machinery Technology Center, ITRI. He is now working on Finite element studies in natural behaviors/impact fractures/transient responses of pure solid/porous medium structures and he is a High performance machine tool designer.

Session date time: September 1^st 2022 :: 14:00-14:45(ONLINE)

Critical Role of Advanced Manufacturing on the Society and on Human Life in the age of Industry 4.0:

Sharing our Experience in the Manufacturing & Automation Research Center

In this talk, after briefly revisiting the development of humanity at large and summarizing the current state of the countries from the advanced manufacturing perspectives, the critical role of engineering and manufacturing will be discussed in the development of societies and human life. Potential opportunities and threats of Industry 4.0 for the society will be shortly discussed. Moreover, some of the research activities from the concept level to the high value added products developed at the Koc University Manufacturing and Automation Research Center will be presented.

Prof. Dr. Ismail LAZOĞLU

İsmail Lazoğlu received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1989, M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992 and 1997 respectively. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaing and in the University of British Columbia for 3 years. He has been working as a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Koç University since 2000. He is the founder and director of the Manufacturing and Automation Research Center (MARC) at Koc University. He has been teaching and researching in the fields of Advanced Manufacturing, Mechatronics/Automation/Robotics, and on Medical System Development and Artificial Organs. He has been closely collaborating with the national and international companies, medical doctors and surgeons in these research fields currently with about 30 PhD researchers in the MARC. He has more than 150 publications in the international journals and conferences, and several patents licensed to the companies. He received several awards including the Best Medical Industry R&D and Innovation Award of 2018 from Doktorclub-Medical Awards of Turkey for the development of the first implantable artificial heart pump of Turkey (iHeart VAD), the Gold Medal for the “Adjustable Bone Plate Patent” from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and The Best Academic Patent Award from the International Federation of Inventor Association (IFIA) in 2016, Koc University College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award in 2014. He is a member of the European Society for Artificial Organs (ESAO) and a Fellow of the CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering). Further information is available at https://marc.ku.edu.tr/

Session date time: September 2^nd 2022 :: 9:45-10:30

High Performance Machining through Process Modeling

Machining is a commonly used manufacturing process in many industries such as automotive, aerospace, energy, die and mold, medical etc. due to its flexibility and ability to produce high quality parts. Although there have been significant advances in machine tool, control and CNC, CAD/CAM and cutting tool technologies over the last couple of decades, the productivity in these processes is still limited due to the process related problems such as excessive cutting temperatures and forces, process instability and chatter vibrations, part/tool/machine deflections etc. Current CAM systems or CNCs do not provide solutions to these problems. Process models (or digital twins), on the other hand, can be used to predict, avoid or reduce these problems through determination of the appropriate process conditions. In this talk, a brief overview of machining process modeling fundamentals such as chip formation mechanics, shearing, friction etc. will be given, and their use in calculation of process forces will be presented with examples. As one of the main and common problems in machining, cutting dynamics and stability will be explained through process-structure interactions where effects of structural dynamics and process conditions will be presented. Commonly used chatter suppression methods will be demonstrated with examples. Implementation of the models for production process simulations will be discussed, and process optimization will be demonstrated through industrial application examples. Modeling and simulation of special machining operations such as simultaneous turning/milling and turn-milling will also so be presented. The presentation will be concluded with future aspects machining process modeling and simulation.

Prof. Dr. Erhan BUDAK

Dr. Budak has been working on various aspects of machining processes and machine tools for 3 decades. After receiving B.Sc. (1987) and M.Sc. (1989) from the Middle East Technical University, Dr. Budak completed his Ph.D. (1994) at the University of British Columbia in Manufacturing Automation Lab. He then worked for Pratt & Whitney Canada as manufacturing development engineer until 2000 focusing on turbine engine manufacturing. He joined Sabanci University as a faculty member in 2000 and founded Manufacturing Research Lab (http://labs.sabanciuniv.edu/mrl/). In 2003, he was awarded the Taylor Medal by CIRP (www.cirp.net) for his work on high performance machining of turbine engine impellers and blisks. He was also the Mustafa Parlar “Science Award” (2018) based on his contributions to the machining research. He is the founder of a spin-off company, Maxima Manufacturing R&D, which develops and implements machining solutions for various industries. He has authored/co-authored more than 200 articles and papers in conference proceedings receiving around 10 000 citations with h-index of 45 (Google Scholar). He is a fellow of CIRP (currently Chair of Scientific Committee on Machines), associate/regional editor and editorial board member of several journals. His areas of interest include machining processes and machine tools, intelligent manufacturing, process modelling and simulation, high precision/ performance manufacturing and machine dynamics.

Session date time: September 2^nd 2022 :: 10:30-11:15

Hybrid machining of advanced materials

The paper presents an overview of ultrasonically assisted machining (UAM) – a modern hybrid technique based on superimposition of high-frequency vibration on a movement of a cutting tool. Hybrid-hybrid techniques can also include additional enhancements - with workpiece heating (hot UAM, or HUAM) or laser preheating of a process zone (LUAM). Ultrasonic vibration with a relatively small amplitude – below 20 microns – changes dramatically the response of a machined material to a cutting process. As a result, a significant – in excess of 80% in turning of aerospace Ni- and Ti-based superalloys – reduction of average cutting forces is observed together with improvement of surface roughness. Experiments with ultrasonically assisted drilling of CFRP composites resulted in 90% reduction in the magnitude of the measured thrust forces and almost 100% reduction in the torque, decreasing manufacturing-induced delamination and improving surface finish. HUAM and LUAM can additionally improve the machining outcomes. The developed methods were successfully used to machine various materials – from ductile (e.g., aluminium alloys) to brittle (e.g., glass and rocks) and biomaterials (bones) – as well as multi-material compositions, e.g., CFRP-Ti stacks. This is achieved thanks to transformation of a continuous material-removal process of a standard cutting technique into a vibro-impact one in hybrid or hybrid-hybrid machining. The paper presents an overview of various ultrasonically assisted machining schemes and their application to various structural materials. It covers a description of experimental setups and analysis of in-house experiments focused on measurement of cutting forces, surface integrity etc. A special emphasis is on advanced numerical simulations of these machining techniques used to elucidate their effect on workpiece materials. Such simulations are the only way of adequate analysis of complex spatio-temporal processes that presuppose a use of 3D transient, fully coupled thermo-mechanical finite-element (FE) formulations for a domian with a changing boundary and complex contact conditions. The Loughborough group was the first to develop FE models of different of ultrasonically-assisted techniques.

Prof. Dr. Vadim V. SILBERSCHMIDT

Vadim Silberschmidt was appointed to the Chair of Mechanics of Materials at the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University, UK in 2000. Prior to this he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute A for Mechanics at Technische Universität München in Germany. Educated in the USSR, he worked at the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics and Institute for Geosciences (both - the USSR (later – Russian) Academy of Sciences). At Loughborough, he heads the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group and Research Theme “Materials and Measurement”. He is a Charted Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institute of Physics. His research focus is on mechanics and micromechanics of deformation, damage and fracture in advanced engineering and biological materials, including composites and nanocomposites, biopolymers, metals and alloys, biological and biomedical materials, materials for microelectronics, sports materials and non-woven fabrics. Vadim Silberschmidt chairs the Technical Committee 14 “Integrity of Biomedical and Biological Materials” of the European Structural Integrity Society. He is Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Series in Mechanics of Advanced Materials, Associate Editor of “Shock and Vibration” (Hindawi) and "Journal of Vibration and Control" (SAGE Publications) and a member of Editorial Boards of international journals “Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing” (Elsevier); “Computers, Materials & Continua” (Tech Science Press); “International Journal of Automotive Composites” (Inderscience), “Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer & Composites Science” (Taylor & Francis), “Reviews on Advanced Materials Science” (De Gruyter), “Defence Technology” (Elsevier) and “Science and Engineering of Composite Materials” (De Gruyter). Vadim Silberschmidt is an Honorary Professor at Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia. He was a visiting professor at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), New Mexico State University (USA), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), University of Texas at Dallas (USA) and Griffith University (Australia). Vadim Silberschmidt has co-authored six research monographs and some 640 peer-reviewed scientific papers (including more than 370 journal papers). He has (co-)supervised more than 80 PhD students.

Session date time: September 2^nd 2022 :: 14:00-14:45

Design Science towards Integration of Design

While the design has made people's life rich, it also produced many negative legacies, for instance, resource and energy crises, global environmental issues, and safety issues. In order to solve these problems produced by the subdivided designs, the new viewpoint for the integration of them is required. Firstly, this speech summarizes the context of conventional design which results in subdivision of the design. Secondly, this speech discusses a framework for design science as the new viewpoint for the integration of the subdivided designs. Finally, in this speech, the AGE thinking model as a design reasoning model and the multispace design model as a design theory are introduced for the integration of design based on the framework for design science.

Prof. Dr. Yoshiyuki MATSUOKA

From 1982 to 1996, Dr. Yoshiyuki Matsuoka designed many passenger cars for the Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. and managed the design department. He also has served a president of Japanese Society for the Science of Design and a committee member of Japanese government agencies. He is currently an honorary professor at Keio University and a visiting professor at Waseda University in Japan. He presides over the DesignJuku, which provides a venue for designers, engineers, researchers and students in various areas of design. He has mainly carried out research on design science and has already constructed new theory, for instance, the AGE thinking model, the multispace design model and the design dualism. For his research, he has received many awards such as the 2002 Liberty Mutual Best Paper Award from the International Ergonomics Association. He is also listed in Who'sWho in the World and Science and Engineering Edition.

Session date time: September 1^st 2022 :: 9:45-10:30 (ONLINE)

Simulation, Sensing and Control of Soft Robots

In response to the various challenges facing the society in these days, such as environmental problem, safe and security problem, the fulfillment of emotional value, it is required to integrate all the knowledge of specialized design fields and works together on addressing the challenges. For moving toward this achievement, it is vital to form “Design Science” as a common basis. Researchers have devoted to developing a variety of soft robotic systems in the laboratory to take advantage of compliance introduced by soft materials. While being able to mimic natural systems and building compatible robots working together with humans, the challenge of lacking computational tools in design also dampens the development of soft robotics in industrial applications. Specifically, the design and control practices taken in soft robotics at present are mainly based on intuition and trial-and-error empirical tests. In this talk, I am going to introduce our recent work to overcome these challenges by simulating, sensing and control the motion of soft robots. The effectiveness of our approach has been verified on pneumatic-driven soft robots for path following, interactive positioning and target-based deformation control.

Prof. Dr. Charlie C. L. Wang

Prof. Charlie C. L. Wang currently holds a Chair of Smart Manufacturing with the University of Manchester. Before joining Manchester in 2020, he was a Chair of Advanced Manufacturing at Delft University of Technology since 2016 and an Assistant Professor / Associate Professor / Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2003. He also worked as a visiting professor at University of Southern California during sabbatical leave in 2011. He received his B.Eng. degree (1998) in mechatronics engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and his Ph.D. degree (2002) in mechanical engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Prof. Wang received several awards from professional societies including the ASME CIE Excellence in Research Award (2016), the ASME CIE Young Engineer Award (2009), seven Best Paper Awards and four project-oriented innovative technology awards. He was elected to be a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2013, and is currently the Chair of Solid Modeling Association (SMA).

Session date time: August 31^st 2022 :: 11:15-11:45

Automotive Safety and Development of Passive Prevention Systems

Globally, a large number road traffic incidents result serious injuries or fatality. Potential incidents and casualties can be predicted and prevented in certain conditions through road safety systems. One of the important elements of these systems is passive safety systems of automobiles, which aim to minimize the severity of injuries and the number of fatalities during the collision when it happens. Despite improvements in other safety systems, accidents still happen. Therefore, reliable passive safety systems in vehicles are extremely important. Passive safety systems have been advancing for several decades and their success has been strongly supported by accident data globally. This keynote speech covers the importance, history, working principles and usage of effective passive safety systems in automobiles.

Prof. Dr. Serpil ACAR