The Scientific Technical Committee: Life Cycle Engineering and Assembly had two meetings in 2014: in Paris on January 23 and in Nantes on August 29. In addition STC A members also participated in the Cross STC 3 meeting in Nantes.
The January STC A meeting in Paris was attended by 87 participants. The Nantes meeting was attended by 76 people.
Conferences and sponsored seminars under STC A are:
Life Cycle Engineering conferences
• 22nd LCE Conference 2015, Sydney, Australia (Prof. Kara)
• 23rd LCE Conference 2016 Berlin, Germany (Prof. Seliger and Prof. Krüger)
• 24th LCE Conference 2017 Tokyo, Japan (Prof. Takata)
• 25th LCE Conference 2018 Copenhagen, Denmark (Prof. Hauschild)
• 26th LCE Conference 2019 LCE Purdue and Michigan, USA (Prof. Sutherland and Prof. Skerlos)
• 27th LCE Conference 2020 Grenoble, France (Prof. Brissaud)
Assembly conferences
• 5th Conference on Assembly Technology and Systems, 2014, Dresden, Germany (Prof. M. Putz)
• 6th Conference on Assembly Technology and Systems, 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden (Prof. R. Soderberg)
STC A Keynote Papers
Future keynote papers will be:
- 2015 Martinsen et al: Joining Technologies in Manufacturing
- 2016 Sutherland et al: The Role of Manufacturing on the Social Dimensions of Sustainability
- 2017 Krüger et al: Innovative Control of Assembly Systems and Lines
Other presentations
At the Paris meeting, the following technical presentations were given:
- Michael Hauschild: The European Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) Guidelines – The EU Commission’s attempt at streamlining LCA for product documentation
- Holger Kohl: Sustainability: Indicator-Based Benchmarking for Sustainability
- Olivier Kerbrat: Sustainable and Innovative Manufacturing
- John Ahmet Erkoyuncu: Service uncertainty and modelling with a case study from the defence sector
- Jürgen Fleischer: Boosting the performance of hybrid electric drives: Challenging aspects of concentrated winding production
- Lihui Wang: Active Collision Avoidance for Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly
- Jaime Camelio: Assembly Modeling and Monitoring using a NURBS representation
- Nicolaos Papakostas: Robotic assembly cells: An approach for Digital Manufacturing
- Jörg Franke: Concept, tools and management of an engineering community to improve project performance, knowledge exchange and personnel development
12 papers were presented in Part I of the General Assembly in Nantes.
The following presentations were given in Part II of the general assembly in Nantes:
- Sotiris Makris: Virtual Commissioning Technology for Assembly Operations
- Annika Raatz: Soft Robotics in Co-operative Assembly
- John Ahmet Erkoyuncu: Agent based modelling to estimate the cost of No-Fault Found
- Nicolas Perry: Design for Recycling and Recycled-based Design - Representations of dynamic and inter-depended systems
- Paolo C. Priarone: Environmental comparison between mass conserving and material removal processes through a LCA approach
- Jörg Krüger: Human Centric Automation in the Context of Sustainability
Other business
CIRPedia and STC LCE/A involvement: Participants are requested to propose new topics for CIRPedia. Jörg Krüger offered support for assembly-related topics, Wim Dewulf offered support for LCE-related topics.
Officers
The officers of STC A in 2014 were:
Chair: Prof. Sami Kara
Vice-chair: Prof. John Sutherland
Secretary: Prof. Jörg Krüger
For further details on the activities of STC A please consult the minutes from the meetings in Paris and Nantes.
Submitted by Sami Kara