IMFS November
The 11th IMFS session will take place on November 4th. Register to participate!
International Manufacturing Forum Series 2021 – 4th November 2021 – Management of Digital Manufacturing …
The International Manufacturing Forum Series is a major initiative from the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development (CDRSP) of the Polytechnic of Leiria in Portugal. This is a twelve day virtual conference spread over 12 months, with a one conference held on the first Thursday of each month. Each one day conference will focus on a specific topic within the broad umbrella of Manufacturing. There will be a particular emphasis on topics related to Industry 4.0 and Digital Manufacturing. CDRSP is a centre of excellence in the field of Direct Digital Manufacturing and was recently judged by an International Panel of the Foundation for Science and Technology to be the best Research Unit in the field of Mechanical Engineering and System Engineering in Portugal.
The widespread adoption of digital technologies by the global information and communications technology industry has paved the way for disruptive approaches to product development, production, and the its entire inherent logistics chain. “Industry 4.0” incorporates services that fuse the digital and physical components, joining the notion of “internet of things” (machines, devices and sensors connected in network) with the existence of intelligent systems and their increasing automation, in a manner similar to social networks. Moreover, the inherent technologies link mechanical and electronic components that then communicate with each other through a network collecting data, allowing the entire factory to have not only a physical embodiment, but also a cybernetic structure. As a result, they support the improvement of the manufacturing process using fundamental data sets for process analysis and improvement of the entire operation. These and other innovations allow for better performance, greater flexibility in product customization, lower waste generation and greater optimization, both internally and throughout the chain of innovation within a given sector, increasing the importance of knowledge exchanges along integrated value chains. We invite papers which address any aspect of this emerging area with respect to both the technology, simulations, case studies and applications. Please submit your abstract prepared using the template available here and submit using the form available here. Abstract will be considered immediately they arrive, so please send your abstract as soon as possible to secure a slot in the programme.“
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS…
Valdemar Duarte
President, DRT Group
Valdemar Duarte is the founder and CEO of the DRT group, a group recognized by the most important manufacturers in the automotive industry. With a clear growth strategy in the areas of molds, communication, industrial design, innovation and technology, the group has a dynamic and entrepreneurial vision with its eyes on the future. He started his career as a mold designer in Gepmolde. After a position as project leader for Risselmann & Sohn GmnH (now Polytec Plastics) in Germany, his entrepreneurial nature contributed for the foundation of the DRT group, together with Sónia Calado.
Pedro Oliveira
FOUNDER AND PROJECT LEADER – Copenhagen Business School, Denmark & Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
Pedro Oliveira is Founder and Project Leader of Patient Innovation. He is Professor MSO with special responsibilities in healthcare innovation at Copenhagen Business School and Gulbenkian Chair Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. He is also Academic Fellow at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures. Previously he was an Associate Professor at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics and International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan. He received his Ph.D. in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on user innovation and, more specifically, on the role of patients/caregivers in the development of new medical products and services.
Mário Antunes
Professor at Polytechnic of Leiria (ESTG, DEI) and researcher at INESC TEC (CRACS) and CIIC-IPLeiria.
He holds a PhD in Computer Science and MSc in Informatics, both from University of Porto, and he graduated in Computers Engineering from Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP).
He coordinates the master programme on Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics at Polytechnic of Leiria and is responsible for curricular units related to computers networking security, datacenters and cloud infrastructures, and systems and networking administration. His main research topics are cybersecurity, machine learning, computers networking security, information security and digital forensics.
He is coauthor of a book about cybersecurity and digital forensics, and has published scientific papers in international journals and conferences with peer-review. He also participates regularly in the program committee of international conferences and journals.
Ana Lisboa
CDRSP | Polytechnic of Leiria
Ana Lisboa is an Associate Professor of Marketing of the Polytechnic of Leiria. She is also a research member of CDRSp (Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development). She has a PhD degree in Marketing from the University Institute of Lisbon, a MSc degree in Marketing from the Catholic University of Portugal and a first degree in Management from the University of Coimbra. She has authored and co-authored more than 40 articles published in international journals, conference proceedings and international book chapters. She has been involved in more than 7 national and international research projects, related to innovation, entrepreneurship, business and international marketing. She is an External Review team member for the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) to the Marketing study programs. She also serves as a reviewer for Technovation, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of International Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, and Journal of Business Research.
Tariq Masood
PhD, MSc, BSc is a Reader at the Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.
His research interests are in the general areas of digital engineering/manufacturing and engineering design, particularly topics related to smart factories, Industry 4.0 technology adoption, system design, process and change management.
Dr Masood sits on editorial (advisory) boards of several journals, e.g., Wiley IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis Digital Twin, Taylor & Francis Cobot, PeerJ Computer Science, and MDPI Energies.
Prior to this, he has worked at the University of Cambridge, Cranfield University, Rolls-Royce, and Loughborough University.
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SESSION CHAIR
“Management of Digital Manufacturing” Session of IMFS2021
Ana Lisboa
CDRSP | Polytechnic of Leiria
Ana Lisboa is an Associate Professor of Marketing and the Coordinator of the BSc Marketing of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. She is also a research member of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development.
She has a PhD degree in Marketing from the University Institute of Lisbon, a MSc degree in Marketing from the Catholic University of Portugal and a first degree in Management from the University of Coimbra.
She has authored and co-authored more than 30 papers published in books, international journals, and proceedings of international conferences. Her work was awarded as the best paper in track Global & Cross Cultural Marketing at the 2016 Winter Marketing Academic Conference in Las Vegas and she received the 2017 + international scientific publication of Polytechnic of Leiria R&D Award for the scientific area of Social and Human Science and the 2017 Outstanding contribution in reviewing award for the journal Industrial Marketing Management. She has participated in more than 4 Research Projects, national and international, related to innovation, entrepreneurship, business and international marketing. She is an External Review Team member for the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) to the Marketing study programmes. She also serves as a reviewer for Technovation, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of International Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, and Journal of Business Research.