Our paper, titled ”  A Thesaurus-guided Text Analytics Technique for Capability-based Classification of Manufacturing Suppliers” received the the  2017 SEIKM/CIE Best Paper award. The CIE conference was held is Cleveland, OH in August 2017. Paper Abstract:  Capability analysis is a necessary step in the early stages of supply chain formation. Most existing approaches to manufacturing capability…

CaMDiF project has a logo now!!  We digitize the factories and blow them into the clouds !!

Texas State’s first Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute ( DMDII ) project was kicked off in the UI LABS headquarter in downtown Chicago on February 10th 2017.Dr. Farhad Ameri is the PI from Texas State on this project. The project is titled “Capability Modeling for Digital Factory (CaMDiF)”. The objective this project is to…

Dr. Ameri Attended the first workshop on Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF) at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD. The objective of this first workshop was to identify industry needs and research issues that will lead to a roadmap for development of such IOF. Academic and industrial representatives (including representatives form Dassault Systems, JPL,  and Autodesk) participated in this workshop to…

In November, Texas State students attended the annual FEF College Industry Conference at the Westin Hotel in downtown Chicago. Texas State is one of only 20 FEF accredited Metalcasting Programs in the United States. FEF provides thousands of dollars each year in scholarship opportunities and equipment to support our students. The College Industry Conference brings together what FEF is all about:…

Dr. Ameri presented two research papers co-authored by Peyman Yazdizadeh Shotorbani and Ramin Sabbagh (graduate students from Engineering Informatics  Research Group) at Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) in Iguassu Falls, Brazil . The papers presented at the conference are titled “ Digital Factories for Capability Modeling and Representation” and “A Hybrid Method for Manufacturing…

Dr. Farhad Ameri chaired the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) International Conference in that was held in Columbia, South Carolina in July 2016.  This year, 69 papers from 19 countries were presented at the conference.  PLM International Conference (PLM IC) brings together researchers, developers, and users of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), an integrated business approach to…