5th International CIRP Digital Enterprise Technology Conference

Professor Paul G. Maropoulos

Professor Paul G. Maropoulos (Co-Chair)

Professor Maropoulos holds the Chair of Innovative Manufacturing in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Bath, in the United Kingdom. He is also the Director of the Global Digital Enterprise Research Laboratory, a joint Laboratory with Oregon State University, USA. Professor Maropoulos is a Fellow of CIRP (the International Academy for Production Engineering), a Eur Ing and a Member of the EPSRC College. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of; the “Proceedings of IMechE, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture”, the “International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering” and the “Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering”. Prof Maropoulos is the Founder and Chair of the CIRP-sponsored International Series of Conferences in “Digital Enterprise Technology” and a member of the Scientific Committees of numerous refereed conferences. Professor Maropoulos has published 3 edited books and more than 170 refereed research papers, 52 of which in learned journals. Professor Maropoulos has substantial expertise in the management of technology transfer from Universities to Industry and considerable consulting experience in industry. During the period 2000 to 2005, he has specified and led knowledge and technology transfer programmes that created more than 140 new jobs and sustained more than 2,000 jobs in industry in the North East of England. Currently, he leads a large research consortium in collaboration with many blue-chip companies, including Airbus, EADS Astrium, Rolls-Royce, Vestas, Renishaw, Metris and FARO focused on new technologies for large and complex product design, process development and verification and the development of new assembly technology.