Join us in welcoming Zhenyu Kong, a professor from Virginia Tech University, as he discusses Smart Additive Manufacturing. Alums and friends of the program are always welcome.
Sensing and Data Analytics for Smart Additive Manufacturing
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.
Zhenyu (James) Kong is the Ralph H. Bogle, Jr. Professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is a Fellow of both IISE and ASME. Kong earned his Ph.D.in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. His research centers on sensing and analytics for smart manufacturing,and he has authored over 100 technical papers. His work has been recognized with more than 20 Best Paper and Best Poster awards. Among his honors, he was named one of the 20 Most Influential Academics in Smart Manufacturing by SME in2021 and received the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence from Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering in 2019. Dr. Kong currently serves as the Editor for IISE Transactions (Focused Issue on Design and Manufacturing).
