news time machine
2022
[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
2021
[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
2020
[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