8th Annual World Conference of the
Society for Industrial and Systems Engineering

Panelists

“Trends in Manufacturing and Service sectors and Suggestions for some Future Design Changes to Industrial and Systems Engineering Education”

By Nagen Nagarur

Nagen Nagarur is currently a professor at Binghamton University (State University of New York at Binghamton) in the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering. He had obtained his B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from REC (NIT) Warangal. He got his MS in Industrial Engineering from Wichita University, Kansas, and Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Tech. Prof. Nagarur was at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, for more than 10 years, including the last two years there as the coordinator of the Industrial and Systems Engineering. At Binghamton University, he served as the chair of the Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Department from 2009-2015. His main research areas are supply chains, applications of operations research, healthcare delivery, and manufacturing. He has several papers in peer-reviewed journals, and so far has served as advisor to more than 17 Ph. D. students and more than 100 MS Thesis students.

“A Practitioner’s View”

By Neal Schmeidler

Neal F. Schmeidler is a Manager in the public sector practice of Grant Thornton LLP, Arlington, Va., the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd., one of the world’s leading independent audit, tax and advisory firms. His expertise includes human capital planning, productivity and work measurement, management and operational analysis, and statistical analysis and modeling. Schmeidler has applied his skills to the study and analysis of activities such as aircraft maintenance, air traffic control, National Airspace System equipment and systems maintenance, civil aviation security, infrastructure security, oil spill response system testing, aviation safety inspection, preventive medicine, federal services to military veterans, telecommunications services management, electrical power systems acquisition, construction waste recycling, space shuttle orbiter maintenance, and federal services to the commercial space transportation industry. Schmeidler is a member of the Society for Industrial and Systems Engineering (SISE). He is a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS) and has served on its Board of Managers and on the awards and financial audit committees. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and has served as a region vice president for the IISE and president of the National Capital Chapter and numerous other boards and societies of the IISE. Mr. Schmeidler received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Fort Hays State University and a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University.

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Future Adaptable Production Systems”

By Oliver Mannuß

Oliver Mannuß works in consulting and research projects in the field of product development systematics and methodology. One focus of his scientific work is in the area of FMEA application and its application to different types of companies. Since 2005 he has served as the Deputy Head of Department for “Sustainable Production and Quality Management” and as the Group Manager for “Quality and Reliability Management”. From 2000 to 2005 he served as a Research Associate at Institute of Industrial Manufacturing and Management (IFF) University Stuttgart. He received his Dipl.-Ing. In Mechanical Engineering from the University Stuttgart. His areas of expertise include automotive (e.g. Daimler, BMW); automotive suppliers (e.g. Bosch, Eberspächer, EDAG); aeronautical engineering (Lufthansa, MTU, Airbus); plant engineering (e.g. FFT, ABB Alstom); machine tools industry (z.B. Trumpf, Walter AG); and medical devices / pharmaceutical industry (e.g. Boehringer Ingelheim, Bosch Packaging, Olöympus medical). Hi notable research projects include the following:

European Commission - project TRANSPARENCY (Adaptive Business Collaboration by progressive knowledge sharing and engineering, 2010-2013)

European Commission - project SELSUS (Health Monitoring and Life-Long Capability Management for SELf-SUStaining Manufacturing Systems, 2013-2017)

Ministry of Economics Baden-Württemberg: MATRON (Development of save and reliable mechatronical systems)