Plenary speakers

Chairman, USPTC

Plenary paper: AI in manufacturing – how to prepare new cadres?

In 1968 he graduated from the Bridge  and Road  Construction department of Surveying and Road Technology vocational school in Poznań, Poland, and in 1981 with a Ph.D. from the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, where for 30 years he has been teaching post-license level engineering classes. In the years 1980-2022 he was an employee of the world’s leading engineering and scientific consulting firm, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates (www.exponent.com), from which he retired with the highest professional title of Senior Fellow.  In 2017 he was admitted to the National Academy of Engineering of the United States. He specializes in investigation and prevention of engineering and scientific disasters.  He is an author of dozens of publications, lectures and speeches. Renewable energy, especially geothermic energy, have been the focus of his many years of work (www.xgsenergy.com). He is the Co-founder and Chairman of the US-Polish Trade Council (www.usptc.org), an organization of professionals working on knowledge transfer and innovative science, technology, and engineering towards strengthening cooperation between Poland and the United States. He is vice-president of the Council of Polish Engineers of North America; Member of the 1st Council of the National Center for Research and Development (NCBR) of Poland. He was a co-organizer and academic director at Stanford University of the Top 500 Innovators program sponsored through the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland. Co-founder of the Polish electromobility program, and for many years chairman of its Board of Directors. Engineer, entrepreneur, and academic teacher.

Plenary paper: Selected aspects of production digitalization and technology of Digital Twins

The paper will present the Digital Twins technology in accordance with the ISO 23247 standard. The digital representation of OMEs (Obervable Manufacturing Elements) will be discussed. Examples of the use of Digital Twins technology to model selected technical problems will be presented.

Graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Szczecin University of Technology in 1991. In the same year, he started working as an assistant at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Szczecin University of Technology. In 1997 he obtained a PhD. In the following years he continued his work as an assistant professor at the Institute of Mechanical Technology. In 2006 he obtained the postdoctoral degree in the discipline of machine construction and exploitation. In 2008 he was employed as an associate professor at the Szczecin University of Technology (West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin since 2009). Since 2007 he has been the head of the Mechatronics Center at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics. From 2005 to 2012 he was the Deputy Director of the Institute of Mechanical Technology, and from 2012 to 2016 he was the Director of the Institute. He was currently is the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics for the 2020-2024 term. He specializes in: modeling and research of machining processes, dynamics of machine tools and robots, designing of machine diagnostic systems and mechatronics. He published around 150 works. In the last eight years he managed five research projects carried out in cooperation with industrial partners. He promoted six doctors and currently cooperate with five doctoral students. He was a member and an expert of: PTMTS (from 1998), Section of Dynamics – Committee of Mechanics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2007-2014), Section of Machine Technology – Committee on Machine Building of the Polish Academy of Sciences (from 2007) and Mechatronics Section – Committee on Machine Building of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2011-2014). Currently (since 2020) he is a member of the Presidium of the Committee on Machine Building of the Polish Academy of Sciences and serves as deputy chairman.