Sensing and Data Analytics for Smart Additive Manufacturing
MIE Department Seminar
February 20, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM America/Chicago
Presenter: Zhenyu (James) Kong, PhD, Virginia Tech
Location: ERF 1043
Abstract: Additive manufacturing (AM) enables seamless integration of product design and manufacturing phases and thus offers significant advantages over conventional manufacturing. Despite the enormous progress in recent AM technologies, certain intractable quality issues persist. These product defects lead to considerable rework and scrap rates and thus pose significant impediments to the sustainability of AM. Consequently, there is a vital need to advance online defect detection and mitigation methods in AM processes. Incipient process anomalies can be identified and possibly prevented at an early stage of manufacturing. With the above focus, this talk will introduce some of the ongoing research related to real-time in situ process monitoring for AM performed in the Smart Manufacturing Analytics Research and Technology (SMART) Laboratory at Virginia Tech. The topics cover: smart AM platform development, advanced optical sensing technique for AM; applications of machine learning for real-time process monitoring in AM; and 3D point cloud-based dimensional integrity assessment for AM.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Zhenyu (James) Kong is a professor with the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. Prior to his current position, he was a faculty member at Oklahoma State University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial and System Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, and his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 1993 and 1995, respectively. His research focuses on sensing and analytics for smart manufacturing and modeling/synthesis/diagnosis for large and complex manufacturing systems. His research has been sponsored by federal agencies such as NSF, DoE, DoD, ONR, and DoEd, as well as industries. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers. His research contributions have been recognized by more than 20 Best Paper/Poster-related awards in the IISE annual conference, INFORMS annual meeting, and IISE Transactions, and featured five times by IISE magazines. He has been honored with several awards, including one of the 20 Most Influential Academics in Smart Manufacturing honored by SME in 2021; Fellow of ASME in 2022; Fellow of IISE in 2020; Outstanding Mentor in 2023, Graduate School, Virginia Tech; Dean’s Award for Research Excellence in 2019, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech. He is the editor for IISE Transactions (The focused issue of design and manufacturing).
Date posted
Feb 6, 2024
Date updated
Feb 6, 2024