General Nicolau Award recipients

Professor Joseph Beaman

Professor Joseph Beaman, University of Texas at Austin

Professor Joseph J. Beaman joined The University of Texas at Austin faculty in 1979 after receiving his Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering.
His career work has been in both manufacturing and control. His specific manufacturing research interest is in Additive Manufacturing (AM).

Professor Beaman was the first academic researcher in the field. One of the most successful AM approaches, Selective Laser Sintering, was a process that was developed in his laboratory.

He was one of the founders of DTM Corporation (now merged with 3D Systems), which markets Selective Laser Sintering.
Professor Beaman has also worked extensively with the special metals processing industry to develop next generation process control for super alloys and titanium alloys.

Dr. Beaman is a Fellow of both ASME and SME. He is former technical editor of the Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control of ASME. He was chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas from 2001 to 2012.

He was elected to the National Academy of Engineers in 2013, received the FAME award in Additive Manufacturing in 2014, elected National Academy of Inventors in 2015, elected Distinguished Engineering Graduate, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2015), received the SME Albert M. Sargent Award in 2016, the SM Wu Implementation Award from NAMRI/SME in 2018, and received the CIRP Nicolau award in August 2021 at the CIRP General Assembly.

Mr. Makoto Sato

Honorary Fellow, Former Executive Senior Managing Director, Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd.　

Mr. Makoto Sato was born in Japan on 4 March 1941, graduated from Hokkaido University in 1963 and joined Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. Shortly after joining the company, he participated in the commercialization of Japan's first NC milling machine, which was successfully developed. He was involved in Japan's first machining centre, which was later commercialized worldwide. He served as a member of the Technical Committee of the Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association and made efforts to harmonize Japanese Standards (JIS) and International Standards (ISO) for machine tools, which greatly promoted the globalization of machine tools. He also devised the practical application of FMS and the standardization of machining cells, which he disseminated worldwide.
　
His contact with CIRP began in 1974, when he introduced MAD: Machining oriented Automatic Decision system of tooling for machining centres. In this year, the first General Assembly of CIRP in Asia was held in Tokyo and Kyoto. He participated in the round table in Tokyo as an observer. In Kyoto, he took the participants to the Yanmar Diesel Amagasaki Factory. A demonstration plant of the Mechanical Engineering Research Institute "The Adaptive Controlled Transfercenter" designed and built by Makino Milling Machine, was in action without the need of the operator, and won praise from CIRP participants.

He also conducted research and development of innovative machining methods including Flush Fine Cutting (FF Cutting), which is widely used for high-speed machining of hard materials and ultra-high-speed machining of light alloys. In FF cutting, the machining heat does not accumulate inside the cutting area, which is advantageous for high-speed machining. Accordingly, the speed of machine tools has increased dramatically, and machine structure has been lightened and made smaller. Makino Milling Machine became global machine tool builder and as a result was the pioneer of today's high-speed, high-precision and multi-axis machine tools.
At the same time, Mr. Makoto Sato conducted joint research with many universities, research institutes, and companies, participated in national projects, and actively lectured and wrote at various academic conferences.

　As soon as NC machine tools became commercially available, there was a demand for 5-axis controlled machining centres. In 1969, he developed the first 5-axis NC milling machine requested from a European tyre manufacturer. Since then, he and the company have developed a variety of 5-axis machining centres to meet by different kinematic demands for various industries around the world.　

　Mr. Makoto Sato has been working step by step in the field of machining technology to find solutions and disseminate the results of his efforts. His aim has been to achieve machining technology which has high accuracy, high efficiency and short lead time, and which is economical and non-invasive to nature. The actions he has taken are in line with the common consciousness of all people that the environment of the earth must be protected in a sustainable manner.

He is married and has three daughters and four grandchildren. Aquabics (Aerobics performed in the pool) is part of his daily routine.

Professor Emeritus Pat McKeown

Professor Emeritus Pat McKeown has been described as one of the pioneers of modern high precision engineering, helping to advance it into the realm of nano-engineering.

After initial student apprentice training [1951-54] in the aircraft industry, he attended the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield for two intensive post graduate years and then joined the world leading Swiss high precision metrology and machine tool company GSIP where he specialised in the comprehensive geometric and thermal error analyses of high precision machines. This led, in due course, to his paper CIRP Vol 22/1,1973 (Tokyo) on calculating volumetric accuracy, 3D error-mapping and eventually to software error compensation, in universal use today.

After 13 years in industry he returned to Cranfield in 1968 to help his predecessor Prof. John Loxham CBE FCIRP establish the Cranfield Unit for Precision Engineering, (CUPE) a MinTech Industrial Unit which went on to design, build and supply a wide range of high and ultra precision machine tools including the world's first CNC camshaft grinding machines, later further developed for crankshaft pin orbital grinding. These were based on, or derived from, the original CUPE master-slave NC system. Machine sales by Fives Landis Ltd. now exceed £2.5 bn with similar sales by its USA sister company. The range of innovative UP machines designed, built, and supplied included single point diamond turning machines capable of nanometre precision and large telescope mirror grinding machines.

He has led professional development short courses in the UK, USA, China, Singapore, Taiwan and Australia and has been a visiting professor at U of C , Berkeley, U of Wisconsin Madison and Nanjing University of Aeronautics, China. In 1996 he received HonDSc from both the University of Connecticut and his own Cranfield University.
He was awarded the Faraday Medal (IET,1999) and the James Clayton Prize (IMechE,2007) He was the initiator of, and in 1998, the founding president, of the highly successful European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology, euspen, to which several senior CIRP colleagues and friends have been outstanding contributors and leaders.
He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Japan Society for Precision Engineering, the American Society for Precision Engineering and euspen and was awarded the Georg-Schlesinger-Preis from the state of Berlin in 2006 for his work in production engineering in general and high precision engineering in particular.

Pat McKeown was elected a full member of CIRP in 1974 (Tokyo) and was President in 1989-90; he has benefitted greatly from CIRP Fellowship in his professional career and feels greatly honoured by this prestigious General Nicolau Award.
He is married to Mary, a historian; they have three sons, nine grandchildren and in 2019, a great granddaughter. Mary has attended and supported many CIRP General Assemblies.

Mr. Charles W. Hull

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer - 3D Systems

Charles W. Hull is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of 3D Systems. Chuck is the inventor of the solid imaging process known as Stereolithography, the first commercial 3D printing technology. With the founding of 3D Systems in 1986, he initiated the 3D printing industry and continues to lead it today with cutting edge innovations ranging from state-of-the-art production 3D printers that have changed the game in manufacturing to precision healthcare and medical 3D printing solutions, on-demand parts manufacturing services and digital design tools. He is a named inventor on 85 United States patents, plus numerous other patents around the world in the fields of ion optics and 3D printing.

In 2014, Chuck was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame at the United States Patent and Trademark Office for his globally impactful and transformative work inventing and pioneering 3D printing. The same year, Chuck was the recipient of the European Patent Office’s prestigious European Inventor Award in the non-European countries category for his contributions to technological progress and the advancement of society, as well as the General Pierre Nicolau Award from the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).

In 2016 he received the Manufacturing Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award from Frost & Sullivan's Manufacturing Leadership Council, and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME, honored Chuck and named the SLA-1, the first commercial 3D printer, a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark. He also received The Economist’s prestigious 2013 Innovation Award, recognizing significant contributions across the fields of science and technology.

Prior to founding 3D Systems, Chuck served six years as vice president of engineering at UVP, Inc. in San Gabriel, California, a systems manufacturing company. Before that, he spent 10 years as an engineering manager at DuPont’s Photo Products Division, concentrating on the development of analytical equipment for chemists, including mass spectrometer and GC/MS systems. Earlier in his career he was a senior engineer at Bell & Howell. Chuck received a BS in engineering physics from the University of Colorado in 1961, an honorary Doctorate in Engineering from Loughborough University in the U.K. in 2005, and an honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Colorado in 2016.

Mrs. Sonia Bonfiglioli

Cavaliere del Lavoro (Knighthood for Labour)
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bonfiglioli Riduttori S.p.A.
Mechanical Engineer, Married, 2 children

Entrepreneur, degree in mechanical engineering and MBA at Profingest, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bonfiglioli Riduttori S.p.A., the company founded by her father 60 years ago.

In 1992, immediately after graduation, she joined the company permanently.

After a start in production, she differentiates her professional experience working in different areas of the company.

Thanks to her strategic vision she guides the company into a wider international dimension, promoting investments in the development of new activities as well as major acquisitions in Italy and abroad.

Today Bonfiglioli Group is a leader in the field of transmission and power control for industrial applications and is a reality present in over 80 countries in 5 continents, with 22 subsidiaries, 14 production plants, over 3,600 employees worldwide and a turnover of 730 million Euro (2015 data).

Professor David Whitehouse

Professor David Whitehouse is a world authority on surface and nanometrology - theoretically and practically. He has a B.Sc. in Physics, a Ph. D. in Surface Tribology and a D.Sc. in Metrology. He has published over 250 papers on surface and nanometrology, has 23 patents and has written six books including the definitive ‘Handbook of Surface Metrology’ and ‘Handbook of Surface and Nanometrology’. Over 50% of all these publications having been written by himself alone.

In 1979 he started the first ‘Centre for Micro and Nano Engineering.’ And in 1990 he initiated the world’s first Journal of Nanotechnology published by the Institute of Physics. He is also a joint Founder in 2002 of the Chinese Journal of Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering. The first 20 years of his career were spent in industry including 10 years as Chief Research Engineer at Taylor Hobson Ltd. UK. After this he spent 23 years as Full Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Warwick UK, for the last 5 of which he was Chief Scientist in the School of Engineering.

Currently, he is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Warwick UK, Consultant Professor at the University of Harbin, PR China, Visiting Professor at Tianjin PR China and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Precision Technologies University of Huddersfield UK .

He has lectured in 37 countries and has received many honours and prizes including the Joseph Whitworth Prize (I. Mech. E.), The James Clayton Prize (I. Mech. E.), the Commemorative Medallion for Advanced Technology; Mendeleev Institute of Metrology Leningrad, USSR (twice), a SERC Senior Fellowship, The Callendar Prize ‘For Outstanding Contribution to Metrology’, a Lifetime Achievement Award for World Class Metrology: ‘Champion of Metrology’ from the National Physical Laboratory, and in a recent award for a long and distinguished career, the American Society of Precision Engineers described Professor Whitehouse as the ‘Father of digital metrology’. He is a recipient of the General Pierre Nicolau Award from CIRP in 2012.

Professor Whitehouse is a charter member of the American Society for Precision Engineering, a Fellow of the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP), and a past President of the Committee for Surface Roughness. He is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics, the Institute of Measurement and Control, the Institution of Production Engineers, and the Institution of Electrical Engineering and Technology. He is an Honorary Member of The Japanese Institution of Precision Engineers, a Senior Member of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of ‘The International Society of Nanomanufacturing’. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He has been a consultant to Rolls Royce, Taylor Hobson in the UK, Kodak, Unilever, General Motors, Caterpillar, Bardon Corporation in the USA, Toshiba in Japan and UBM in Germany, the Ministry of Technology Singapore and the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment Aldermaston in the UK.

He is married to Ruth, an organist and retired teacher and they have just celebrated their 50^th Wedding Anniversary. They have two children Anne, a material scientist and Steven a computer scientist. Professor Whitehouse has, apart from his research into surfaces, a great interest in classical music and physical training.

Joaquim Menezes

Chairman of the Board of Directors of IBEROMOLDES Group

Joaquim Menezes was born on November 9, 1946 in Coimbra, Portugal.

In September of 1963, started his professional career, as a trainee at ABRANTES (the founding and pioneering company for the Engineering & Tooling Portugal's industry - mouldmaking for injection of thermoplastics and light alloys).

Academic Background

Electromechanical Engineering Degree, graduated by the ISEL (Lisbon - 1971);

Senior Management Program by AESE (Lisbon - 1982);

OPM - Owner President Management Program, at Harvard Business School (Boston, USA 1994);

Innovation Management Program, at EU-Japan Center (Tokyo, Japan-1996).

Industrial and Entrepreneurial Activities

Co-founder of IBEROMOLDES Group, in September 1975.

Since April 2009 holds, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Group (the capital shares of its 12 companies) and is currently its President.

Institutional Activities

Since 2003, President of the Incubation Center OPEN in Marinha Grande;

Vice-President of Pool-Net, Portuguese Engineering and Tooling Cluster;

President of the Forum ManuFuture Portugal and the European Tooling Platform;

Member of the EU MANUFUTURE High-Level Group;

Member of the Board of Directors of EFFRA – European Factories of the Future Research Association;

National Representative of CEFAMOL (the Moulds Industry Portuguese Association) at ISTMA, the International Special Tooling and Machining Association;

Member of the Consultive Board of the ANI – Portuguese National Innovation Agency

Member of the Advisory Boards of the University of Minho, of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and of the Polythecnical Institutes of Lisbon.

2003-2007, President of ISTMA EUROPE, the European Chapter of ISTMA;

2008-2011, President of the ISTMA World, ISTMA World's Confederation;

1995-2016, President of Centimfe - the Portugal's Technological Center for Moulds Industry, Special Tooling and Plastics, in Marinha Grande;

Awards and distinctions

Commendation of Industrial Merit, awarded by the Portugal's Presidency of Republic;

Industrial Entrepreneur of the Year 2002 by the Rotary Club (Marinha Grande);

2002 Career National Award, by the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs;

Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 by VCIT / International Congress of Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship;

Presented with CIRP's General Pierre Nicolau Award, by the International Academy for Production Engineering (August 2011).

. /. June 2016

Sir David McMurtry

Virtually all high value mechanical engineering products built today have component shapes and sizes that have been “touched and verified” by one of Sir David McMurtry’s metrology inventions, the “touch-trigger-probe”. His inventions have revolutionised the manufacture of precision products since late 1970s and improved product quality and reliability significantly.

Sir David was born in Ireland in 1940. He became interested in model aeroplanes as a boy, particularly the miniature diesel engines that powered them. Modifying these engines to increase performance convinced him that he had much to offer the emerging aero engine industry.

In 1958 he joined Bristol Aero Engines (now Rolls-Royce) as a craft apprentice specialising in machining and fitting. He did well at college and after 2 years was promoted to student apprentice. As a student apprentice he studied for a Higher National Diploma at the Ashley Down College of Advanced Technology in Bristol; this was prior to it becoming the University of Bath.

Sir David’s career in engineering design had finally started and his first role was as a junior designer in rocket design. His undoubted talents rapidly became recognised and within four years he had become head of the Final Nozzle and Thrust Reverse group.

In 1971 as part of the new Rolls-Royce, he was promoted to assistant chief engineer (special design problems) and in 1974 he became deputy chief designer for the RB401 and assistant chief engineer for all engine design. It was during this period that he was asked to solve the problem of making and validating fuel pipes, that was causing significant engine assembly problems. The answer was to measure the pipes in free space and Sir David invented the first touch trigger probe that was patented by Rolls-Royce. The device worked so well that several other companies wanted it and a new cottage or shed industry was born.

The “touch-trigger-probe” had taken off, and the only way to meet demand was to set up a new company “Renishaw”, with Rolls-Royce, after negotiation, receiving 10% royalties. To do this Sir David teamed up with John Deer who concentrated on marketing and the business of getting the probe properly manufactured. John is now Deputy Chairman of Renishaw and the partnership of McMurtry and Deer has been one of the great industrial partnerships in recent years. Renishaw is now a major multi-national company with a turnover of £180M.

His engineering and business achievements have been widely acclaimed internationally. In 1994 he was awarded a CBE “for services to Science and Technology” and he was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 1989. In the 2001 New Years Honour List he was appointed a Knight Bachelor “for services to Design and Innovation”. He was a visiting Professor of Huddersfield University and has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Engineering of the University of Birmingham, plus three honorary degrees of Doctor of Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Bristol University and the University of Bath. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the American Society of Manufacturing Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He also sits on the US Standards Committee for Co-ordinate Measuring Machines and was for ten years a member of the UK Patents Office Steering Board.

Sir David is a highly acclaimed engineer at the helm of one of the UK’s leading companies, who still finds engineering the most exciting career to be in and who is an inspirational role model for young engineers. In his career he has played a fundamental role in the design and manufacture of a family of products that have revolutionised precision measurements and made Renishaw the Internationally leading company it is today. He is a Corporate Member of CIRP and many CIRP colleagues are actively involved in research projects with Renishaw.

Mr. James B. Bryan

Mr.James B. Bryan is considered by many to be the “founding father of modern precision engineering”. He began his engineering career in the U.S. Merchant Marines during World War II (1944) as a Jr. Engineer and graduated with a degree in industrial engineering in 1951 from the University of California at Berkeley. He was next employed for several years by Westinghouse and then joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1955. While at Livermore it was his search for ever higher precision in diverse applications that led to the advances in manufacturing that characterized his career. By the time he retired in 1986 he was known worldwide as the leading practitioner and teacher of precision engineering principles.

Some of his accomplishments are listed below: Mr.James B.Bryan was one of the first manufacturing engineers to really realize the importance of temperature in achieving precision in manufacturing. He has served as the world’s educator on “thermal effects” and played the key role in the development of the seminal American Standard, “Temperature and Humidity Environment for Dimensional Metrology.” This standard introduces critical concepts such as the thermal error index, the uncertainty of nominal differential expansion, and the thermal variation error (drift test) which form the backbone of ISO machine tool standards almost 40 years later.

He played critical and pivotal roles in the development of the U.S. axis of rotation standards as well as the CIRP unification document. The technical content of these contributions is now also included in an ISO standard. Mr. Bryan has over 45 published research papers, a fine record for a non-academic.

Besides his contributions to the written literature, standards and education, Mr. Bryan has made outstanding contributions to the “hardware” of precision engineering. This really is best illustrated by his work on large diamond turning machines. This began in the early 1970s with the development of Diamond Turning Machine 1 (DTM1) and proceeded thorough a series of machines of increasing capabilities. These machines were all-liquid showered with temperature control at the milli-degree level and exhibited near 25-nanometer repeatability.

The deterministic theory formulated by him is based on “there is nothing random or probabilistic in the behavior of automatic machine tools or coordinate measuring machines”. This theory have helped many precision engineers to look at any effects in more detailed and recognize the systematic reasons behind any effect .

Other improvements included better tool-setting stations, part trace tests, reversal techniques for machine alignment and, of course, such ideas as the telescoping ball bar. The design and development of the telescopic ball-bar metrology device for the rapid metrological testing of machine tools, subsequently patented and now widely used throughout industry across the world. Such tests are now in American and ISO standards and used worldwide. He has initiated and driven several important ANSI standards in this field.

Mr. Bryan’s contributions have been widely recognized in the U. S. where he was elected a Charter Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, a recipient of their International Medal for Research in Manufacturing, and an Honorary Member of the American Society for Precision Engineering. He was also featured in Manufacturing Engineering Magazine as a “Master of Manufacturing” and in Fortune Magazine for his contributions to precision.

Professor Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Klaus Wucherer

Born July 9^th, 1944 in Germany

Education

Dipl.-lng. Electrical Engineering

Dipl.-lng. Mechanical Engineering Dr.-lngenieur

Professional history (Siemens AG 03/1970 to 12/2007)

1970 Project-Engineer; 1972 Head of Engineering Department (Bremen / Osnabruck)

1983 Head of Sales and Engineering Department (São Paulo, Brazil)

1986 Head of various Divisions: Automations Systems for Machine Tools, Software House, Industrial Communications, Industrial Automation Systems SIMATIC

1996 / 1998 Member / President of the Automation and Drives Group (A&D)

1999 Member of the Corporate Executive Committee of Siemens AG

Responsibility for the groups A&D, I&S, TS; Economic Region Asia and Australia;

Company program top⁺; Siemens Quality Management; Mentoring of Universities

(Business volume 30 Billion Euros )

Supervisory board positions

Chairman of the board:

Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg (to 2011)

Festo AG, Esslingen

Member of the board:

Bosch-Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich (to 2008)

Messe Hannover AG, Hannover (to 2008)

SAP AG, Walldorf

Leoni AG, Nürnberg

Dürr AG, Bietigheim-Bissingen (to 2015)

Heitec AG, Erlangen

Professorships

Honorary professorships:

Technical University of Chemnitz

University of Applied Sciences Osnabruck

Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Guest professorships:

Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Shandong University, Shandong, China

VDE German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies

(Founding member of the IEC)

1998 - 2009 Member of the Supervisory Board of VDE

2003 - 2005 President of VDE

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva

1997 - 2000 Member of the Sector Board for Factory Automation

2000 - 2009 President of the German National Committee of the IEC

2011 - 2013 President of the IEC

Fraunhofer Institut

since 1998 Member of the board of trustees IPK-Berlin

since 2002 Chairman of the board of trustees IPK-Berlin

Distinction

Dr.-lng. E.h. - Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Member of - Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften

Nicolau Award - The International Academy for Production Engineering

Dr. Yoshiharu Inaba

President and CEO, FANUC Ltd

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

April 1973 - August 1983: ISUZU Motors Limited

September 1983 - Present: FANUC LTD

June 1989: Vice President

January 1992: General Manager of Robo Machine Laboratory

June 1992: Senior Vice President

June 1995: Senior Executive Vice President

June 2003: President & CEO

MEMBERSHIP OF ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

The Japan Society for Precision Engineering

The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

The Japan Society of Polymer Processing

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Past Chairman of JARA (Japan Robot Association)

Vice Chairman of JMTBA (Japan Machine Tool Builders’ Association)

Board of Directors of JMF (Japan Machinery Federation)

BUSINESS ACHIEVEMENTS AS A COMPANY PRESIDENT

Fanuc developed the first NC in Japanese private sector in 1956. Since then, FANUC have continued to develop new technology into the products. In recent years, Dr. Inaba is steering this company by his strong leadership agreed with his accomplishment in Research and Development.

His career in FANUC had started as an engineer to develop Electric Injection Molding Machines. This development and accomplishment made an enormous influence on the injection molding industry, and contributed to create new market for Electric Injection Molding Machines.

In the four years after becoming the President, FANUC group’s sales volume has been expanded 1.8 times to 381,047 billion yen by launching globally competitive products into the markets.

FANUC has two principles, one is to set Research and Development and Robotization in the basis of management, the other is to preserve nature. FANUC had the honor of being presented with one of the Grand Prizes for the first Global Environment Award (1991), the Prize of the Minister of Ministry of Trade and Industry. FANUC approved the certification of ISO 14001 the business activities for FA and Robot produces at the entire business complex in 1999.

FANUC won the Prime Minister's Prize of the first Monodzukuri Nippon Grand Award for its Robot Cell machining system featuring intelligent robots to perform long continuous hours of machining in 2005. Monodzukuri Nippon Grand Award has been established this year to commend outstanding human resources and groups in diverse fields ranging from state-of-the-art technologies to traditional & cultural skills, thereby encouraging them to succeed and develop "Monodzukuri - the art of making goods" which has contributed much to the development of the Japanese industry & culture, and to providing the Japanese citizens with affluent lives.

FANUC won the 49th Okochi Memorial Production Prize on March 18, 2003 from the Okochi Memorial Foundation for "Development of Unmanned Fully-automated Machining System with Intelligent Robots for Long-hour Operation." FANUC Robot Cell system integrates intelligent robots with a high-speed horizontal machining center, in order to machine parts of varying shapes and weight, for 720 hours per month continuously. The system helps reduce the number of operators, machining fixtures and initial facility investment, bringing about significant reduction in machining costs per hour.

CONTRIBUTION TO THE SOCIETY

Dr. Inaba’s research paper entitled "Pressure Profile Trace Control of Electric Injection Molding Machine (the first report) - an application of learning control to flow pressure" received the 1999 (the 22nd) JSPE Award. The award is given to the authors of the most original research paper cited in the "Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering" and the "International Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering" with engineering and industrial merits, in order to encourage academic research and to promote precision engineering. The Precision Engineering Society also gives "JSPE Paper Prize" and "JSPE Technology Development Award." Among those awards, the "JSPE Award," a special honor to the recipient engineers, significantly encourages their research and development.

The FANUC FA & Robot Foundation was established in 1989 with its capital donated by FANUC. Since its inception, the foundation has provided subsidies to R&D efforts and supported international technological exchange in the field of advanced automation technologies. The foundation's "Original Paper Award" recognizes creative research papers of industrial merits in the fields of the Factory Automation and Industrial Robot. This award is selected by the foundation's Paper Awards Screening Committee out of the research papers recommended by five academic societies related to FA and Industrial Robots.

The FANUC FA & Robot Foundation is playing a valuable role by university professors and industry experts evaluating and identifying prospective research results, which will, then, further produce the next technologies.

Professor Nam Pyo Suh

The Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor

Director, Manufacturing Institute, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 - USA

Previous Positions

National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.

1984 - 1988 (Jan.) Assistant Director for Engineering (Presidential Appointee).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1991 - 2001 Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

1990 - Present Director, Manufacturing Institute.

1989 - Present The Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor of Manufacturing.

1975 - Present Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

1977 - 84 Founding Director, Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity.

1973 - 84 Founder and Director, MIT-Industry Polymer Processing Program.

1979 - 84 Member, Engineering Council, MIT.

1975 - 77 Head, Mechanics and Materials Division, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

1974 - 75 Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Tenured).

1970 – 74 Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

1968 - 69 Associate Professor of Engineering.

1965 - 68 Assistant Professor of Engineering.

USM Corporation, Beverly, MA.

1961 - 65 Senior Research Engineer and Project Manager (1962-63 at CMU).

Guild Plastics, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

1958 - 60 Development Engineer (half-time during academic year, full-time in summer).

Education & Related

1955 Buckingham, Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, MA.

1959 S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

1961 S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

1964 Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Honorary doctorates

1986 Eng. D. (Hon.), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.

1988 L.H.D. (Hon.), University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Lowell, MA.

2000 Tekn.Dr. hc, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Honors and Awards

1. Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award of ASME and Pi Tau Sigma for pioneering work in the field of tribology: the Delamination Theory of Wear, 1976.

2. Blackall Award of ASME for the Solution Wear Theory (with B. M. Kramer), 1982.

3. SPE Award for Contribution in Tribology of Polymers (with J. R. Youn), 1981.

4. Citation Classic by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) for one of the most quoted papers, "The Delamination Theory of Wear", 1979.

5. Election to CIRP (International Institution for Production Engineering Research), 1978.

6. Selected by USM Corporation for company sponsored graduate study at Carnegie Mellon University, 1962.

7. Who's Who in America. Who's Who in Science and Technology.

8. Special edition of Wear journal, devoted to the work of Suh and coworkers, 1977.

9. The F. W. Taylor Research Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1986.

10. Honorary Doctor of Engineering Degree, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1986.

11. Phi Kappa Phi.

12. Pi Tau Sigma.

13. Sigma Xi.

14. Life Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

15. Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, 1988.

16. Distinguished Service Award, NSF, 1988.

17. Federal Engineer of the Year, NSF, National Society of Professional Engineers, 1987.

18. Foreign member, The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA), 1988.

19. Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor, MIT, 1989.

20. Centennial Medallion of American Society for Engineering Education, 1993.

21. William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award, ASME, 1993

22. The Best Tribology Paper Award (with D. E. Kim), ASME, 1993

23. Scholarly Achievement Award, KBS, 1995.

24. Life member, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, 1995

25. The 1997 Ho-Am Prize for Engineering, Ho-Am Committee, 1997

26. Honorary Doctor (Tekn.Hedersdoktor), Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2000

27. The Mensforth International Gold Medal, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, United Kingdom, March 15, 2001

28. The Hills Millennium Award of the Institution of Engineering Designers of the United Kingdom (First recipient) , June 4, 2001

29. Who’s Who in The World

30. Honorary Professor and The William Mong Lecturer/Fellow, The University of Hong Kong, 2003

Publications

1. About 280 scholarly papers on topics such as:

Axiomatic design principles and methodologies
Complexity theory
Delamination theory of wear.
Solution wear theory for cutting tools.
Friction space and friction theory.
Reaction injection molding.
Solid state forming.
Mixalloy process.
Engineering education
Microcellular Plastics
R&D policy

2. Books

a) Elements of the Mechanical Behavior of Solids (with A.P.L. Turner), McGraw-Hill, 1975.

b) The Delamination Theory of Wear, Elsevier, 1977

c) Tribophysics, Prentice-Hall, 1986.

d) The Principles of Design,Oxford University Press, 1990.

e) Axiomatic Design: Advances and Applications, Oxford University Press, 2001

f) Complexity: Theory and Applications, Oxford University Press, 2004

g) Axiomatic Design and Fabrication of Composite Structures, (With Dai Gil Lee) 2005

3. Edited Books

a) Fundamentals of Tribology (with N. Saka), MIT Press, 1980.

b) Science and Technology of Polymer Processing (with N. Sung), MIT Press, 1979.

c) University/Industry Cooperation, NSF publication, 1982 (with B. M. Kramer).

d) Manufacturing Engineering, (In manuscript form, Principal Author & Editor).

Patents

Approximately 50 U.S. patents (and many foreign patents) - Some of the important patents include:

Electrostatic charge decay NDE technique (commercialized by Dr. Ming Tse).
Method for making laminated plastic molded parts (Sweetheart plastics).
Tough plastics.
Electrostatic mixing apparatus.
Mixalloys.(Trademark).
Minute moisture measuring system for polymers (Trademark– Axiometer).
Low-energy solvent separation using spinodal decomposition.
Microcellular plastics (Commercial trademark – MuCell)
Axiomatic design software (Trademark – Acclaro)
Electrical connectors (Trademark Low R, a Tribotek product)

Other Professional Activities

A. Current (in 2006)

Founder and Member of the Board of Directors, Trexel, Inc. (formerly Axiomatics Corporation), Woburn, MA.
Founder and Member of the Board, Axiomatic Design Software, Inc., Boston, MA
Member of the Board of Directors, Integrated Circuit Systems, Inc., Valley Forge, PA
Member of the Board of Directors, ParkerVision, Inc., Jacksonville, FL
Member of the Board of Directors, Therma Wave, Inc., Fremont, CA
Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors, Tribotek, Inc., Burlington, MA
Series Editor, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Series, Oxford University Press
Editor, MIT/Pappalardo Series of Mechanical Engineering Books, Oxford University Press
Consultant, Pharos, Inc.
Member, Advisory Council Member, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Visiting Faculty (part-time), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Member of editorial board of the following journals:

Polymer Processing Engineering

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Research in Engineering Design

Advanced Manufacturing Processes

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Journal of Design manufacturing

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

and others

B. Past

Member of the Board of Directors (Chairman of Tech. Adv. Comm.), Silicon Valley Group, Inc., San Jose, California
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, an international journal.
Founder and Chairman of the Board, Sutek Corporation (formerly Mixalloy Corporation), Hudson, MA.
Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Alcan Aluminum Corporation, Cambridge, MA.
Visiting committee member of the following mechanical engineering departments, Texas A&M University, Stanford University, University of Michigan, and the University of California at Berkeley
Chief Technical Advisor, United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
Consultant, World Bank.
Member of the board, Surftech Corporation, Nashua, NH.
Consultant to many corporations throughout the world.
Member of the Scientific and Technical Board, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory.
Member of the NRC Panel for the National Engineering Laboratory.
Member of the Visiting Committee (Statutory) on Advanced Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce, 1991-1994.
Member of the Advisory Committee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Chairman, the Overseas Advisory Committee, the BK 21 Program, Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea.
CIRP (STC Design, Chairman)
Member of a Research Award Committee of ASEE.
ENDREA Program, Scientific Committee, Sweden
Review Panel, Kplus Center Program, Austria
Visiting Faculty, University of Tokyo and Yonsei University
The William Mong Distinguished Fellow, University of Hong Kong, 2002

Other Accomplishments

Professor Suh is the creator of the axiomatic design theory that has been adopted by many industrial firms and taught at many universities and industrial firms throughout the world. The axiomatic design principles have been used to create new materials, products, processes, systems, software, and organizations. He taught a large number of industrial engineers, including automotive companies, aerospace companies, and defense industries.

He also advanced a complexity theory and the concept of Functional Periodicity for creation of stable systems.

He has also made contributions in the field of tribology: the delamination theory of wear, solution wear, genesis of friction, undulated surfaces, electrical connectors, and others. Innovative electrical connector design is being commercialized by Tribotek, Inc.

In 1973, Professor Suh established the first university/industry cooperative research program at MIT known as the MIT-Industry Polymer Processing Program, which became a model in establishing similar programs at many other universities by NSF and in formulating the Stevenson-Wydler Innovation Act of 1981 by U. S. Congress. He has also created many polymer-processing techniques, in addition to generating many of the leading academics in the field of polymer processing.

Among the many new materials, products and manufacturing processes invented by him are: Microcellular plastics (known as MuCell and used commercially worldwide), Mixalloy, USM high pressure foam molding technology (used world wide), electrostatic charge-decay NDE technique, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, electrical connectors, low friction surfaces, and foam/straight plastic lamination process (a major industrial product). Many of these have been commercialized.

The MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (of which Professor Suh was the founder and first Director until his NSF appointment) became one of the world's largest and most successful laboratories of its kind.

His inventions have become the basis for several successful commercial and industrial technologies.

Professor Suh has supervised approximately 50 PhDs and 70 SMs in the fields of materials processing, mechanical engineering and manufacturing. His former students now number among the most promising educators and industrial engineers in the world.

He was the principal architect of the highly successful Five-Year Economic Plan of Korea for the Period 1980 - 1985.

Upon his appointment to the National Science Foundation by President Reagan, Dr. Suh instituted a new structure and policies for engineering education and research to prepare for a new era. His plans received strong endorsements from U.S. Congress and the Administration. Many distinguished researchers and educators joined him at NSF to implement the new programs for engineering education and research. Dr. Suh created programs for design theory and methodology, biotechnology, computer-integrated engineering, emerging technologies, critical technologies, the Engineering Research Centers, Expedited Grants for Novel Research, Creativity Grants, and the University-Industry-Government Cooperative Program for engineering education.

As the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, Professor Suh worked with his colleagues to elevate the already highest ranked department to a higher level of excellence by establishing clear macro-strategic goals and carefully developing and implementing programs and activities to achieve these goals. He established the following goals, which have been achieved during his tenure as Department Head:

1. Transformation of the mechanical engineering field from a discipline that is primarily based on physics to a discipline that is based on physics, information and biology.

2. Concentration of the two ends (rather than the middle of the research spectrum) of the research spectrum – basic research and technology innovation – where the impact on knowledge base and society is the largest.

3. Improvement of undergraduate education by providing a right context for learning, integrating engineering science subjects, providing hands-on experience in design and manufacturing, and by simultaneously teaching design and analysis in all subjects.

4. Emphasis on interdisciplinary research at the interface between traditional mechanical engineering and information, biology, and energy, which have resulted in the creation of the d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems, the Laboratory for BioInstrumentation, Hatosopoulos Microfluids Laboratory, Auto ID center, and the Laboratory for 21^st Century Energy. The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering has some of the finest teaching and research laboratories in the world.

The educational goal of the Department is to prepare MIT students for leadership in their chosen fields. To achieve this goal, an innovative undergraduate curriculum was adopted. This curriculum incorporates many new ideas and pedagogical innovations. The BJ and Chunghi Park Lecture Halls were created to enable “self-discovery” form of learning as well as more traditional form of lecturing. He also raised a substantial sum of money from MIT alumni/ae and industrial corporations to renovate and endow undergraduate teaching laboratories and to establish endowed senior faculty chairs. Also to encourage and support the faculty effort for teaching material development, an endowment fund for book writing was created. Oxford University Press through its MIT/Pappalardo Series of Mechanical Engineering Books will publish the books written with the support of this endowment fund.

Professor Suh also established the Manufacturing Institute at MIT to provide an educational mechanism for teaching engineering systems and to strengthen the interaction between MIT and industry by conducting industrially funded research in the field of large systems and by creating more effective technology transfer mechanisms.

His major achievement as Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department was the hiring of the brightest young professors from many fields – mechanical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, physics, and optics -- who have already become world’s leaders in their respective fields. Nearly 40% of the department faculty were hired during his tenure.

Professional Societies

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Life Fellow; Chairman, Productivity Committee, 1982-84).
American Society for Engineering Education.
International Institution for Production Engineering Research (CIRP) (Active Member; Former Chairman: Design STC).
Society of Plastics Engineers
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (Foreign Member)
Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Life Fellow)
American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Personal

US citizen. He was born in Korea on April 22, 1936, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1954 to join his father who was teaching at Harvard University. He completed his high school education at Browne & Nichols School before entering MIT as a freshman in 1955.

Mr. Stefan Wertheimer

Founder of ISCAR, Ltd.

Forced to flee Nazi Germany at the age of 10, Stef Wertheimer has long recognized the importance of Israel to the survival of the Jewish people. Although he trained as a pilot in the War of Independence, he served in the Palmach as a close technical aide to Yigal Alon developing armaments.

Since then, he has spent his life fostering the economic independence of Israel and promoting peaceful coexistence with its neighbors. Export manufacturing and educational initiatives have been the vehicles to achieve these goals.

The firm he founded in 1952, ISCAR, Ltd., is today one of the world’s top two manufacturers of precision carbide cutting tools. These precision tools are used in the automotive, aerospace, and electronics industries. In May 2013, Warren Buffett purchased the remaining shares of ISCAR, making it wholly owned and operated by Berkshire Hathaway.

In 1967, in response to Charles de Gaulle’s embargo on French weapons to Israel, Mr. Wertheimer began to manufacture jet engine blades. What began as a liability was transformed into a strategic asset: no longer was the Israeli Air Force dependent on imported blades. Recently, Pratt and Whitney and Rolls Royce have both become partners with him in the creation of Blades Technologies International, Inc. and TechJet. He has also recently created a third international blades industry in Xian, China.

Since 1982, Mr. Wertheimer has built seven industrial parks. The original park, at Tefen in the Galilee, created an unusual model that has been replicated at Tel Hai, Lavon, Omer, and Dalton. In the spring of 2013, Wertheimer opened his latest park in the Arab city of Nazareth. The seventh park – the first to be built outside of Israel – has been active since 2005 in Gebze, Turkey, near Istanbul. It is a successful joint venture with Turkish partners.

In 1999, he worked closely with Palestinians, who wished to emulate his successful model. The Israeli and Palestinian governments approved this initiative, which would have stimulated the Palestinian economy. The idea was to create twin industrial parks—one Palestinian, the other Israeli—on either side of the border. These parks were expected, ultimately, to enjoy the benefits of a free trade zone. The second Intifada, however, prevented its construction.

All of his parks are designed to promote export and to ensure a better quality of life. To encourage a new generation of entrepreneurs, they include incubator facilities for start-up firms. They also offer cultural facilities, schools, and aesthetic landscapes. In addition, Mr. Wertheimer has built designed communities near several of the parks.

Mr. Wertheimer’s contributions have been honored in a variety of ways. From 1977-1981, he served in the Ninth Israeli Knesset as a member of the DASH party. Of his many awards, none is more meaningful to him than his nation’s highest honor, the Israel Prize, bestowed in 1991. In 2010, he received the Business for Peace Award in Oslo, Norway, and in 2011 the Technion honored him for his outstanding achievements. A year later, President Joachim Gauck of Germany -- the nation from which he was forced to flee -- bestowed on him that country’s highest honor, the Federal Cross of Merit. His deep commitment to education has led him to establish technical and entrepreneurial programs. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Pratt University/NYU, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Bard College, Brandeis University, the Weizmann Institute, and the Hebrew Union College. He also received the Honorary Meister degree from the Chamber of Crafts of the Stuttgart Region (Handwerkskammer Stuttgart) – the first and only time they have made such an award.

Mr. Francis Bernard

Dassault Systèmes.

Francis Bernard graduated in 1965 from France’s renowned Ecole Nationale de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace. Two years later, he joined Dassault Aviation as an aerodynamics engineer and participated in the computer technology revolution, which started during the same period, to form the aircraft manufacturer’s Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) department. In 1977, he conceived the company’s first 3D design system, called CATIA, a critical technology breakthrough and a business transformation revolutionizing the way to design and manufacture in 3D. En 1981, Francis BERNARD cofounded Dassault Systèmes, at this time a subsidiary of Dassault Aviation, with a modest 20-employee workforce.

A long-time President of Dassault Systèmes, and under his technical leadership, together with a marketing and distribution alliance with IBM to sell CATIA worldwide to all the industries, the start-up company evolved into a world-class player which became number one in the early 90’s. In 1995 the company was listed on the Nasdaq stock market and in Paris. Its workforce comprised more than 8000 employees in 2006.

Francis Bernard retired from Dassault Systèmes in 2006.

Since then he is an Executive Advisor and a Board Director of several software editors. He is also a Board Director of a Capital Ventures company based in Paris, CapHorn Invest, which invests in start-up’s addressing numerical innovations and new usages.

Francis Bernard was honoured with the 1997 Award from the “Académie Nationale de l’Air et de l’Espace” in France, with the 1997 Award from the Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine and the National Air & Space Museum of the USA as being the “inventor of CATIA”, with the 1998 « Chaptal de l’Industrie de la Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale » in France and with the 2013 General Nicolau Award from the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).

Dr. Eng. Masahiko MORI

President of DMG MORI CO., LTD.

PERSONAL DATA

Name: Dr. Eng. Masahiko Mori
Birth date: September 16, 1961
Marital Status: Married, 2 children
Nationality: Japanese

DMG MORI CO., LTD., 2-35-16 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi 450-0002, Japan - Phone: +81-52-587-1811 - Fax: +81-52-587-1818

EDUCATION

March 1985 Kyoto University - Department of Precision Engineering; Bachelor of Mechanical Science, (Thesis title): “In process monitoring of tool wear by acoustic emission”

October 2003 The University of Tokyo - Dr. of Engineering, (Thesis title): “Research on Business Model of Domestic and Foreign Production in the Machine Tool Industry”

WORK EXPERIENCES

April 1985 - March 1993 - ITOCHU Corporation Osaka Headquarters Industrial Machinery Division (Textile Machine, Plant, Advanced Composite Materials)

April 1993 - June 1994 - General Manager of Corporate Planing Dept., Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.

June 1994 - June 1996 - Director of the Board, Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.

June 1999 - present - President & Representative Director, Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.

November 2009- present - A member of supervisory board, GILDEMEISTER AG.

Present - Chief Executive Officer of DMG MORI Group

(Note)

The company name of “Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.” was changed to “DMG MORI CO., LTD. “ in June 2015.

The company name of “GILDEMEISTER AG” was changed to “DMG MORI AG” in May 2015.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Fellow, International Academy for Production Engineering ( CIRP)
Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engineers(SME)
Member, Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE)
Member of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)

SOCIAL SERVICES

Jul. 2001 – Present Vice-president of JMTBA
Oct. 2012 – Present Specially appointed Professor of the Graduate School of Advanced Leadership Studies, Kyoto University

Apr. 2014 – Present Specially appointed Professor of Osaka Institute of Technology
Apr. 2013 – Present Specially appointed Professor of Setsunan University
Jan. 2002 – May. 2006 Member of Provisional Committee of Industrial Structure Council of METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

Jul. 1999 – 2011 Member of Advisory Board of College of Engineering, University of California, Davis

2000 – 2001 Member of the Board of American Machine Tool Distributors Association (AMTDA)

Oct. 2008 – Sep. 2014 Member of the Management council of Kyoto University
Oct. 2011 – Jun. 2012 Member of Provisional Committee of Industrial Structure Council of METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

Jun. 2013 – Present Member of COI STREAM Visionary team of MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)

March, 2015 – Present Board member of Kyoto University Innovation Capital

Professor Dr.-Ing. Joachim Milberg

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG up to 2015

Personal Data

April 10, 1943 born in Verl, Germany

Married, 1 daughter

Education

1971 Doctorate in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) with a thesis on:

Analytical and experimental investigations into stability

Limits in turning machining, Berlin Technical University, Germany

1970 – 1972 Research Assistant at the Institute of Machine Tools and

Production Technology at Berlin Technical University, Germany

1966 – 1969 Berlin Technical University, Germany

1962 – 1965 Study of Production Technology at the State Engineering School in Bielefeld, Germany

1953 –1959 Secondary school, GCE O-levels

Professional Affiliations

05/2004 – 05/2015 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG, Germany

16 May 2002 Member of the Supervisory Board of BMW AG, Germany

5 February 1999 Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Germany

March 1998 Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Engineering and Production, Germany

November 1993 Joined BMW AG as Member of the Board of Management, Production, Germany

1991 – 1993 Dean of the Faculty for Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Germany

1981 – 1993 Professor of Machine Tools and Management Science at the Technical University of Munich, Germany

1992 Called to the Technical University of Berlin, Germany

1988 Called to ETH Zurich, Switzerland

1978 – 1981 Head of the ‘Automatic Turning Machines’ division at Werkzeugmaschinen Gildemeister AG, Bielefeld, Germany

1972 – 1978 Executive employee at Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Gildemeister AG, Bielefeld, Germany

Mandates

Since 2005 Bertelsmann AG (Vice Chairman)

Since 2004 Chairman of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Board of Trustees

Professional Association / Society Memberships

2003 – 2016 Deere & Company, Moline, U S A

2002 – 2015 Member of the Supervisory Board BMW AG, Munich, Germany (Chairman 2004 – 2015)

2003 – 2013 Member of the Supervisory Board Festo AG, Esslingen, Germany (Chairman 2011 – 2013)

2008 – 2011 Member of the Supervisory Board ZF Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany

2007 – 2012 Member of the Supervisory Board of SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany

2000 – 2003 Member of the Supervisory Board Royal Dutch Shell, London / Rotterdam

2001 – 2006 Member of the Advisory Board, Allianz Versicherungs-AG, Munich, Germany

2002 – 2007 Member of the Supervisory Board of MAN AG, Munich, Germany (Vice Chairman)

2002 – 2008 Member of the Senate and Member of the Executive committee of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany

2003 – 2006 Member of the Supervisory Board of Leipziger Messe GmbH, Leipzig, Germany

2005 – 2008 Member of the Senate of the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Berlin, Germany

2000 – 2009 Member of the Partner Committee TÜV Süddeutschland Holding AG, Munich, Germany

2002 - 2009 Founding President of acatech – Council of Technical Sciences of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities

Awards and Honors

2015 Induction into the Hall of Fame for Business, Germany

2014 Heinrich-Hertz Guest Professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany

2012 Georg-Schlesinger Award, Berlin, Germany

2011 Induction into the Hall of Fame for Science, Germany

2010 Honorary Professorship at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

2010 Medal of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Germany

2008 Hanns Martin Schleyer Award, Germany

2005 Arthur Burkhardt Prize of the Arthur Burkhardt Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany

2004 Honorary doctorate of Berlin Technical University, Germany

2004 Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal of the Braunschweigische-Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Germany

2003 Member of the Honorary Senate of the Foundation of the Nobel Laureates‘ Meetings at Lindau am Bodensee, Germany

2003 Ernst-Blickle Prize of the SEW-Eurodrive Foundation, Bruchsal, Germany

2002 “Heiße Kartoffel”, Mitteldeutscher Presseclub, Germany

2002 Bavarian Medal of Environment, Germany

2002 BILD “Osgar”, BILD/Springer Publishing House, Germany

2001 Honorary Award “Golden Steering Wheel”, Axel-Springer Publishing House, Germany

2001 General Pierre Nicolau Award of the CIRP

2000 Grashof Commemorative Coin of the VDI (Society of German Engineers)

1999 State Medal for Special Services to Bavaria Industry

1998 Honorary Professorship for machine tools and management science at Munich Technical University, Germany

1996 Honorary doctorate of Hanover University, Germany

1994 Honorary doctorate of Ljubljana University, Slovenia

1994 Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

1992 Herwart Opitz Medal of the VDI (Society of German Engineers)

1991 Fritz Winter Prize of the Fritz Winter Foundation

1988 Sponsorship Award for German scientists:

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Program of the German Research Society

Publications

Milberg, J. (ed.) Wettbewerbsfähigkeit durch Integration (Competitiveness through Integration), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1988

Milberg, J. (ed.) Wettbewerbsfaktor Zeit in Produktionsunternehmen (Competition Factor Time in Manufacturing Enterprises), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1991

Milberg, J. Von CAD/CAM zu CIM (From CAD/CAM to CIM), Verlag TÜV Rheinland, Köln 1992, Germany

VDI-Gemeinschafts- Rechnerintegrierte Konstruktion und Produktion

Ausschuss CIM Band 1: CIM Management

(ed.) Band 2: Integrierte Produktdatenverarbeitung

Chairman: Band 3: Auftragsabwicklung

Milberg, J. Band 4: Flexible Fertigung

Band 5: Produktionslogistik

Band 6: Kommunikations- und Datenbanktechnik

Band 7: Qualitätssicherung

Band 8: Flexible Montage

(Computer-integrated construction and production, 8 Volumes)

VDI Verlag Düsseldorf 1992, Germany

Milberg, J. Werkzeugmaschinen Grundlagen (Machine Tools Fundamentals), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1992

Milberg, J., Reinhart, G. (Hrsg.) Unsere Stärken stärken - Der Weg zu Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Standortsicherung (Strengthening our Strenghts – The Way to Competitiveness and Assuring the Future of Business Locations), mi Verlag, Landsberg 1994, Germany

Milberg, J. , Reinhart, G. Mit Schwung zum Aufschwung (With momentum to the boom), mi Verlag, Landsberg 1997, Germany

Milberg J. , Schuh, G. (eds.) Erfolg in Netzwerken (Success in Networks), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 2002, Germany

Patents

DE- PS 3531243 31.08.1985

“Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Verschließen von Öffnungen in einem Hohlkörper“ (Method and device for closing openings in a hollow body) - Inventor: Milberg, J.

DE - PS 39 21863 04.07.1989

“Verfahren zum Setzen von Befestigungsmitteln und Vorrichtungen hierzu” (Method and device for placing a fastening element) - Inventor: Milberg, J.

DE 40 21 330 A1 03.07.1990

“Verfahren zum Betrieb eines Roboters und eine Vorrichtung dazu“ (Method and device for operating a robot) - Inventor: Milberg, J.

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