[03/21/2023] Our paper on 'Building win-win value networks for product-service systems’ delivery' w./ Sophie Peillon & Khaled Medini was appected for publication in the International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management.

[03/17/2023] Congratulations to our Lab Alumni Juergen Lenz for the new faculty position at University of Applied Sciences Augsbug, Germany! 

[03/16/2023] Our paper on 'Manufacturing Cybersecurity Threat Attributes and Countermeasures: Review, Meta- Taxonomy, and Use Cases of Cyberattack Taxonomies' led by Habibor Rahman and Mohammed Shafae was accepted by the Journal of Manufacturing Systems. 

[03/08/2023] Anna's paper 'Energy Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Literature Review' was shortlisted as a candidate for Student Research Presentation (SRP) competition at NAMRC 51. Congratulations Anna! 

[03/08/2023] Congratulations to Israt and Moji for having their paper 'Machine Learning in Directed Energy Deposition (DED) Additive Manufacturing: A State-of-the-art Review' accepted at NAMRC 51 for publication in Manufacturing Letters!

[03/08/2023] Congratulations to Anna for having her paper 'Energy Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Literature Review' accepted at NAMRC 51 for publication in Manufacturing Letters!

[03/10/2023] Hosting IMSE Graduate Seminar with Guest Speaker Dr. Mohamed Shafae (University of Arizona) titled 'Toward Cyber-Physical Secure and Resilient Smart Manufacturing Systems'.

[02/04/2023] Shout-out to Moji and Matt for getting their paper 'Time-Series Pattern Recognition in Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Literature Review and Ontology' accepted with minor revisions by the premier Journal of Manufacturing Systems in the first round!

[01/19/2023] Article by Peggy Smedley on 'The Underpinnings of Industry 5.0' based on our recent conversation published in Connected World.

[01/13/2023] Our new paper 'Description Model of Smart Connected Devices in Smart Manufacturing Systems' now available in Procedia Computer Science w/ Juergen Lenz & Dominik Lucke.

[12/27/2022] Reached 6,666 citations on GS today - what are the chances of hitting that particular number exactly? 🤔

[12/20/2022] Our WVU Smart Manfuacturing Lab's very own Makenzie accepted a position as Teaching Assistant Professor at WVU IMSE starting in Fall'23! We all couldn't be more proud of her! 

[12/20/2022] Hosted our CESMII Smart Manfuacturing Curriculum Workshop for Educators at WVU with our partners Festo Didactics.

[12/07/2022] Congratulations Makenzie for recieving the very competitive WVU Foundation Distinguished Doctoral Scholarship!

[11/25/2022] The 2022 World Manufacturing Report on 'Redesigning Supply Chains in the new Era of Manufacturing' released! 

[11/17/2022] Congratulations to Sayantee Roy for successfully defending your MS IE Thesis on "Bottleneck Management through Strategic Sequencing in Smart Manufacturing Systems" - a challenging topic & excellent job in combining experimental & simulated data to compare algorithms for sequencing.

[11/10/2022] Vist by Randy Kenworthy, Partner at West Monroe, discussing collaboration opportunities, and he gave an exciting guest lecture to our Smart Manfuacturing students.

[09/21/2022] John Howard MD, the Director of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health references our work on 'Machine Learning in Manufacturing' in his new article on 'Algorithms and the Future of Work'. 

[10/04/2022] New Paper Alert: Putting the controversial new term 'Industry 5.0' into perspective:  'Industry 5.0: Prospect and retrospect. 'Journal of Manufacturing Systems' w./ Leng, J., Sha, W., Wang, B., Zheng, P., Zhuang, C., Liu, Q., Wuest, T., Mourtzis, D., & Wang, L., published in Journal of Manufacturing System.

[09/21/2022] New Paper Alert IV: Rabiul Hasan's new APMS paper on 'A Review of Sustainable Composites Supply Chains' investigating this growing space available online.

[09/19/2022] New Paper Alert V: Our paper on 'Status Quo of Smart Manufacturing Curricula offered by ABET accredited Industrial Engineering programs in the US' was published in Manufacturing Letters.

[09/16/2022] New Paper Alert I: Makenzie & Isabelle spearheaded the paper on 'The Classification of Game Elements for Manufacturing' at APMS 2022.

[09/16/2022] New Paper Alert II: Tao and the team did incredible work on scheduling in SMS: 'Dynamic scheduling with online predicted order remaining completion time considering production uncertainty: A simulation study' at APMS 2022.

[09/16/2022] New Paper Alert III: Melanie, Frederica, & David looked into a 'Thematic Research Framework for Eco-efficient and Circular Industrial Systems' at APMS 2022.

[09/13/2022] Presenting our research funded by CESMII at IMTS, Chicago w./ Sathish Kasilingam & Anna Billey. -> link

[08/22/2022] Our paper on Pattern Recognition in Multivariate Time Series:Towards an Automated Event Detection Method for SMS received Editor's Choice award from JMMP.

[08/06/2022] Joint paper titled "Automated manufacturability analysis in smart manufacturing systems: a signature mapping method for product-centered digital twins" w./ Ramy Harik and Kaishu Xia published in Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.

[07/08/2022] Makenzie's paper "Current State of Research and Outlook of Gamification for Manufacturing" published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems.

[06/30/2022] Milica presented her apper on Smart Manufacturing Curricula at ABET IE programs in teh US at NAMRC 50 (w./ Anna ).

[06/28/2022] Sathish presented his research as a finalist at the NAMRC 50 competition. 

[06/21/2022] Congratulations to Makenzie & Isabelle for their first high-impact journal publication being accepted with minor revisions.

[06/16/2022] Hosted Smart Manufacturing session for middle schoolers (1 of 5 this summer!) as part of our CESMII curriculum evaluation w./ Makenzie, Milica, Anna, & Mike.

[06/15/2022] Keynote on "The road to servitization of industrial assests & the role of smart manfuacturing technologies" at Future of Field Service, Chicago, IL, June 15, 2022, 11:20-11:40 CT. link

[06/07/2022] Discussing "Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing Resiliency" (with Jim Wetzel) at Smart Manufacturing Experience, Pittsburgh, PA, June 7, 2022, 10:15 am- 10:45am. link

[05/26/2022] Presented Smart Manufacturing Curriculum study to CESMII Edu Committee w/ Milica, Anna, Makenzie, and Mike.

[04/26/2022] Sathish was selected as finalists for the ASME/SME Student Manufacturing Design Competition at NAMRC 50. Congratulations! 

[04/22/2022] Congratulations to Jenna for the 'IMSE UG Student Researcher of the Year Award' AND the 'IMSE Outstanding Senior Award (2022)'! We are so very proud of you!

[04/22/2022] Congratulations to Robert for the 'IMSE Outstanding Senior Award (2022)'! Well deserved and looking forward what you will accomplish next!

[04/22/2022] Congratulations to Makenzie for the 'IMSE Graduate Student Researcher of the Year Award'! We are very proud of your accomplishments!

[04/20/2022] New paper led by Muztoba Khan w/ Shaun West & Oliver Stoll on 'Equipment upgrade service provision in the context of servitization: drivers, capabilities, and resources' in Production Planing & Control. 

[04/15/2022] Hosted AMI Roundtable webinar on 'Smart Manufacturing in SMEs: The Struggle & Pathways Towards Success'. 

[04/01/2022] Grateful to receive the 2022 Statler Outstanding Researcher of the Year/Senior award and even more grateful for the amazing team that made this possible in the first place! Thank you! 

[03/23/2022] Listen to an episode of the Peggy Smedley Show on Smart Manufacturing and the Supply Chain. 

[03/22/2022] Congrats Mili & Anna for being awarded a NSF travel grant to attend NAMRC 50 to present your research! 

[03/18/2022] Serving on Scientific Committee for CIPR LCE 2023 - Enabling Absolute Sustainability and the Circular Economy using Data and Insight.

[03/17/2022] Invited talk on Digital Supply Networks at the Industry of Things World USA conference in San Diego.

[03/13/2022] Thankful that the global research community found out work relevant and worthy of citing it over 5,000 times to-date (Google Scholar).

[03/07/2022] New paper accepted "Equipment Upgrade Service Provision in the context of Servitization: Drivers, Capabilities, and Resources" in Production, Planning & Control, lead by Muztoba Khan, w./ Shaun West & Oliver Stoll.

[03/07/2022] Will be talking about "Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing Resiliency" with Jim Wetzel at the Smart Manufacturing Experience, Pittsburgh, PA, on June 2, 2022, 10:15 am - 10:45am. 

[03/03/2022] New paper on 'Factors Affecting Industry 4.0 Adoption - A Hybrid SEM-ANN Approach' accepted in Computers & Industrial Engineering w/ Parhi, S., Joshi, K., & Akarte, M..

[02/24/2022] New book chapter released on The Triple Bottom Line of Smart Manufacturing Technologies. 

[02/23/2022] Featured among the 20 Manufacturing Innovators and Thought Leaders You Should Know by Matics Manufacturing Analytics

[02/23/2022] Join the Cambridge University's SYMPOSIUM ON LOW-COST DIGITALISATION FOR MANUFACTURING SMES - we'll present our view on how to help SMEs together with Thomas Kurfess, Dimitris Kiritsis, Duncan McFarlane, et al.

[02/16/2022] Joined forces with Dr. Guha Manogharan to edit the 'Sustainable Manufacturing' volume of Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies  (2nd edition / link shows 1st ed).

[02/14/2022] Recorded an episode of the Peggy Smedley Show - to be released soon, so stay tuned!

[01/28/2022] Invited talk at Clarkson University on 'Applying Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Research and Training' w/ Mike Nager (Festo).

[01/25/2022] Contributed to the article 'Upgrading the production line' by Workflow. 

[01/11/2022] Accepted Associate Editor position for Elsevier's Robotics & Computer-Integrated Manufacturing journal.

[01/08/2022] Accepted Editorial Board position with T&F's Production & Manufacturing Research (PMR) journal. 

[01/01/2022] Welcome Matt (Ph.D. student), Rabiul (M.S. student), Robert and Frank (both B.S.) to the team! 

[01/05/2022] New paper w/ Khaled and Rodrigo on 'A DMAIC framework to improve quality and sustainability in Additive Manufacturing – a case study' published in Sustainability

[12/18/2021] Featured in PR Newswire on OAGi SME Express Pack release.

[12/08/2021] Speaker at Industry of Things World USA 2022 on Digital Supply Networks March 18, 2022, 3:30-4:00pm

[10/26-28/2021] CIRPe 2021 is LIVE! 

[10/21/2021] The 2021 World Manufacturing Foundation report on 'digitally enabled circular economy' is now available! 

[10/20/2021] Our edited volume in Procedia CIRP was just published w/ Khaled Medini.

[10/20/2021] Congratulations to Sathish (A Bibliometric Analysis of Physics-Based and Data-Driven Hybrid Modeling) and Milica (Image Based Quality Inspection in Smart Manufacturing Systems:A Literature Review) for their first-author papers published today! 

[10/20/2021] New paper lead by Khaled on A Decision Support System to Operationalize Customer-Centric Sustainability published in Procedia CIRP.

[09/16/2021] We were awarded a 3.8 million dollar collaborative project titled 'RII Track 2 FEC: Enabling Factory to Factory (F2F) Networking for Future Manufacturing' lead by PI Dr. Harik at UofSC from NSF. (-> NSF accouncement)

[09/10/2021] Humbled to received the 2021 WVU Value Coin

[09/03/2021] Serving as opponent at Ph.D. defense of Maja Baerring (Chalmers) on 'From Data to Decision Support in Manufacturing' 

[06/11/2021] Digital Supply Networks included in '25 Manufacturing Books That Will Boos Your Business' 

[08/23/2021] Congrats to Sathish, Mili, Moji, & Makenzie to their newly accepted peer-reviewed publications (2x CIRPe, 1x APMS)! 

[08/17/2021] Digital Supply Networks No 3 of the '5 Books You Need to Read on Supply Chain Management' by SDC Supply & Demand Chain Executive

[08/13/2021] Welcome to our newest lab members Anna and Isabelle! 

[07/21/2021] Guest Editor for Special Issue on 'Human-Centered Smart Manufacturing' in Journal of Manufacturing Systems

[07/16/2021] Invited talk at Industry of Things World USA on 'Digital Supply Networks - Resilient Supply Chains thropugh Digital Transformation' 

[07/13/2021] Congrats to Rafi for successfully defending his MS tehsis today!

[07/05/2021] New paper 'Smart Wearable and Collaborative Technologies for the Operator 4.0 in the Present and Post-COVID Digital Manufacturing Worlds' in ASTM's Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

[06/28/2021] Article on Creating a more Resilient Supply Chain with our contribution available at the Composites Manufacturing Magazine 

[06/23/2021] book Digital Supply Networks is now available as an Audiobook

[06/17/2021] Listed in Who's Who in Industry 4.0 by onalytica

[06/10/2021] Selected as finalist for the 2021 NAMRI/SME Blue Sky Competition David Dornfeld Manfuacturign Vision Award funded by NSF

[05/25/2021] Honored to receive the IISE/Joint Publisher Book-of-the-Year award for Digital Supply Networks

[05/24/2021] New paper published titled 'Developing a Multi-Agent System to Support Multi-Variant Production Ramp-Up Management' published in SSMS w/ Khaled Medini & David Romero

[05/06/2021] Lab member Josh Gross graduates asa 2021 WVU Outstanding Senior - CONGRATULATIONS JOSH!!!  

[04/21/2021] Wuest to serve on IPC of LDIC'21 conference

[04/20/2021] Wuest to serve on Advisory Board of WVU Industrial Extension (2021-)

[04/15/2021] Wuest to serve on Advisory Board (AB-1: Smart Manufacturing & Aviation/Aerospace) for the new Digital Twin platform by Taylor & Francis

[04/13/2021] Ranked among top 2% of global scientists by Baas et al. (2020), data available here:  http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.2 

[03/22/2021] Jointly organized by Mines St. Etienne and WVU, the CIRPe 2021 conference website is live!

[03/16/2021] Wuest named among 2021 Pros to Know Awardees by Supply & Demand Chain Executive

[03/15/2021] Wuest to serve on the WVU Faculty Senate 2021-2024 

[03/03/2021] Jenna & our WVU SMlab featured in Manufacturing USA Highlights report (p. 88).

[03/01/2021] REMADE Institute selects our project 'Repurposing of FRP Composites Using Next-Generation Technology' for funding!

[02/25/2021] Presenting opening keynote at PHARMA Digital Supply Network Strategies conference w/ Dr. Dai (JHU) & Sinha (Deloitte)

[02/22/2021] V.I.E.W. Panel on 'The New Supply Chain Paradigm: Digital Supply Networks' by TransformTV

[02/13/2021] New paper 'Product-Service Systems Evolution in the Era of Industry 4.0' accepted in Service Business (open access)

[02/10/2021] New paper 'Configurators as a means to Leverage Customer-Centric Sustainable Systems - Evidence from the 3D-Printing Domain' published in Procedia CIRP

[02/03/2021] Featured in IndustryWeek: 'A Manufacturing ‘Google’ Could Be a Breakthrough for Reshoring'

[01/25/2021] Join Benoit Montreuil and me at the IISE webinar on 'Supply Chain 4.0: Innovative Concepts and Methods Driving Transformation' 

[01/21/2021] New paper 'Decision support for the implementation of Industry 4.0 methods: Toolbox, Assessment and Implementation Sequences for Industry 4.0' published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems

[01/13/2021] Featured profile at WVU Foundation

[01/05/2021] Welcome to our newest team member Sathish Kasilingam

[12/11/2020] Featured in Deloitte Podcast series  on Future of Manufacturing

[12/-4/2020] New Op-Ed To program robots is human, to problem-solve is divine in SME's Smart Manufacutring Magazine

[11/13/2020] Received Commended Paper Award at SysInt 2020 Conference

[11/12/2020] Presenting the 2020 World Manufacturing Report: Manufacturing in the Age of Artifical Intelligence w/ Marco Taisch & David Romero