Wednesday 22/09/2021 - Day 1
Professor Dimitris Mourtzis
Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS), University of Patras, Greece

Smart Manufacturing and Tactile Internet Powered by 5G: Investigation of Current Developments, Challenges, and Future Trends
Biography:
Dimitris Mourtzis is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics of the University of Patras, Vice President of Research and Development of University of Patras and Director of Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation. He is a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control (IFAC TC5.2), the International Federation of Information Processing IFIP WG 5.7-Advances in Production Management Systems. Professor Mourtzis is member of numerous scientific associations including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the Presidential Board of the International Association of Learning Factories (IALF), the European Factories of the Future Association–EFFRA, the European Manufacturing and Innovation Research Association (EMIRACLE), the European Aeronautics Science Network / Association EASN and others. His main research interests are focused in the area of Manufacturing Systems, Robots Automation and Virtual Reality in Manufacturing and Manufacturing Processes Modelling and Energy Efficiency. He is also actively involved in Digital Transformation and Implementation of Industry 4.0 practices, both at a National and International level. He has published more than 270 publications including refereed journal papers, editorials, book chapters and conference proceedings with a total number of more than 8.500 unique citations. He is Member of the Editorial Board of 7 International Journals and Guest Editor in a number of Special Issues.
Assistant Professor Panos Stavropoulos
Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS), University of Patras, Greece

The Environmental Impact of Manufacturing and the LMS approach
Biography:
He owns a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Advanced Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sussex-UK, a PhD in Engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras-GREECE and is candidate for an MBA from the Hellenic Open University-GREECE. His main research interests are focused in the field of conventional/non-conventional/micro manufacturing processes, machine tool design, CAD/CAM and RP/RM systems. He speaks fluently English and German. He is member of the editorial board for one (1) International Journal and reviewer for five (5) International Journals and a number of International Conferences. He has acted as a member of the organising and programme committees of four (4) International Conferences. Since 2002 he has been involved in fourteen (14) RTD projects funded by the EC. He has published more than 170 publications in international Scopus Indexed journals, book chapters and international conferences, reaching a total number of unique citations that exceeds 3.600 citations according to the Scopus, ISI Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar databases.
Thursday 23/09/2021 - Day 2
Professor Alexandre Dolgui
IMT Atlantique, LS2N - CNRS, La Chantrerie, 4 rue Alfred Kastler, 44307 Nantes, France
Combinatorial optimization approaches for the preliminary design of machining systems
Biography:
Dr. Alexandre Dolgui is an IISE Fellow, Distinguished Professor,and the Head of Automation, Production and Computer Sciences Department at the IMT Atlantique, campus in Nantes, France. His research focuses on manufacturing line design, production planning and supply chain optimization. He has partiticpated as a author, co-author, editor, co-editor of more than 790 publications including refereed journal papers, prefaces of books, editorials and book chapters as well as in conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Production Research and in several other Scopus Indexed Journals and a Member of the Editorial Boards for 27 other journals. He is an Active Fellow of the European Academy for Industrial Management, Member of the Board of the International Foundation for Production Research, Chair of IFAC TC 5.2 Manufacturing Modelling for Management and Control, Member of IFIP WG 5.7 Advances in Production Management Systems, IEEE System Council Analytics and Risk Technical Committee, Guest editor of special issues of European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Omega –last ten years.
Dr. Sotiris Makris
Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS), University of Patras, Greece

Industrial human robot collaboration for flexible manufacturing
Biography:
Dr. Sotiris Makris has been working as a Senior Research Associate for the Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation. His main research interests are focused on the field of Robots, Automation and Virtual reality in Manufacturing. He is an Associate Member of the International Academy for Production Research (CIRP). He has published more than 160 scientific articles. He has been involved in numerous RTD projects funded by the EC and by Manufacturing companies, acting as Senior Researcher in the scientific topics of Cooperating robots, Virtual Commissioning of robotic lines, Industrial Applications with Cooperating Robots for the Flexible Assembly and Artificial intelligence methods for multi robot systems cognition among other topics.
Friday 24/09/2021 - Day 3
Professor Alain Bernard
Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France

Integration of additive manufacturing in production systems

Biography:
Prof. A. Bernard, graduated in 82, PhD in 89, was associate-Professor, from 90 to 96 in Centrale Paris. From Sept. 96 to Oct. 01, he was Professor in CRAN, Nancy I, and leaded the “Integrated Design and Manufacturing” team. Since 0ct. 01, he has been Professor at Centrale Nantes and Dean for Research from 07 to 12. He is researcher in LS2N laboratory (UMR CNRS 6004), former head of the “Systems Engineering –Products-Processes-Performances” team. His research topics are KM, PLM, information system modeling, enterprise modeling, systems performance assessment, virtual engineering, additive manufacturing. He supervised more than 40 PhD students. He published more than 150 papers in refereed international journals and books. He is vice-President of France Additive (French Association on Additive Manufacturing) since 1993, vice-chairman of WG5.1 of IFIP (Global Product Development for the whole product lifecycle) and fellow member of CIRP. In 2018, he has been elected Fellow member of the Academy of Technologies of France.
Dr. Kosmas Alexopoulos
Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS), University of Patras, Greece
Artificial Intelligence for Manufacturing Systems
Biography:
Graduated from the Computer engineering and Informatics Department of University of Patras. His research area and expertise are in the fields of smart factory, digital factory, flexibility of manufacturing systems, virtual reality, internet of things, cyber-physical-systems, industrial product service systems, computer-aided ergonomics analysis and modelling, human motion modelling and simulation, semantics. He works as a Research Engineer at the Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics of the University of Patras. He has been leading researcher teams towards accomplishing technical achievements in manufacturing mainly by investigating new technology for the digital and smart factory. He has currently more than 40 publications, including papers in international refereed scientific journals, chapters in books, and papers in conference proceedings with review in the full paper.