Chairman:Dr. Makoto Fujishima  (Corporate member)
Vice-Chairmen: Dr. Yavuz  Murtezaoglu (Corporate member) / Prof. Bert Lauwers (Council Fellow)
Secretary: Dr. Luis Uriarte (Corporate member)

The Corporate Members Advisory Group allows to focus the attention of CIRP members on specific industrial problems as well as on new research topics.

Corporate Industry Members are very valuable to the entire CIRP Community. They give feedback to ongoing and planned scientific work and can also give CIRP academic members recommendations for future industry-related research needs. On the other hand they establish networks within the scientific community and can receive advice and help for their current problems. One platform for this synergistic exchange is currently achieved at the Corporate Members Advisory Group (CMAG) meetings which are held during the CIRP General Assembly (GA) and during the CIRP Winter meetings in Paris. During the August General Assembly, a special lunch is reserved to the Corporate members where a friendly meeting with the CIRP officers and STC chairmen encourages a fruitful exchange of opinions and experiences.

Unlike for members from academia it is very hard for representatives from companies, industrial research labs, and service providers, to place papers in Vol.1 of the CIRP Annals. This is due to the high requirements regarding the scientific standard of papers in Vol.1. Therefore, CIRP Council and the Editorial Committee (EC) have approved a new route to accept CIRP Industrial Technical Papers, to allow their presentation at a CMAG paper session during a GA, and to publish them in a special section on our CIRP website:

Link to the ITP papers online (you must be logged in to get to this members' area)

Link to the procedure to propose an ITP paper  (you must be logged in to get to this members' area)

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