Event date:
Mar 18 2022 11:00 am

Retooling the Design and Manufacturing for Industry 4.0

Speaker(s)
Ahmed Qureshi, Ph.D., P.Eng. Additive Design and Manufacturing Systems Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Venue
SBASSE Auditorium 10-201
Abstract
As Industry 4.0 matures and starts to find broader acceptance in the industry and production community, stark gaps appear between the concepts and opportunities that industry 4.0 has to offer and the current level of technological readiness and capability of the traditional design and manufacturing practices. In terms of design methodologies and processes, our reliance on conventional computer-aided design tools and methods have limited our capacity to fully leverage the benefits of emerging digital manufacturing technologies such as additive manufacturing. In terms of manufacturing technology, as additive manufacturing graduates from being a small scale and small-batch size exotic technology to a highly value-added, medium-scale flexible technology, questions about the design criteria, modeling support, manufacturing strategies, and qualification and quality assurance loom large, preventing its uptake by industries. This talk showcases the research projects and initiatives in the area of industry 4.0 and advanced manufacturing that strive to answer the following questions:
• How do we move to design for additive manufacturing, and why should we design for additive manufacturing, rather than trying to additively manufacture what we can make through conventional manufacturing anyway?
• How do we manage, measure, and quantify the geometric variation in the additive manufacturing produce lifecycle?
• How do we innovate and push the technological frontier in large scale additive manufacturing systems engineering and material systems? and,
• How do we integrate multiscale quality assurance and process and product qualification for additive manufacturing?

 Dr. Ahmed Qureshi is an associate professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, leading the Additive Design and Manufacturing Systems (ADaMS) Laboratory at the Mechanical Engineering department. He has a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from UET Lahore, Pakistan, a Master's in Design and Industrialization, and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Arts Et Metiers ParisTech, France. Following the doctorate, Dr. Qureshi worked as a research associate at the University of Luxembourg and a lecturer at the Newcastle University UK and its Singapore campus. Dr. Qureshi's research interests are in advanced design and manufacturing, focusing mainly on additive manufacturing systems engineering, design for X, and quality and qualification in manufacturing processes. His recent research projects include systems engineering projects for plasma transferred arc AM system for AM of Nickel-Tungsten Carbide parts, development of novel 4D ferromagnetic polymer-metal composite material jetting systems, and multi-degree of freedom robotic wire arc additive manufacturing systems for supportless printing. Dr. Qureshi also has extensive experience in quality assurance and control of mechanical and geometric properties of 3D printing/Additively manufactured parts. Dr. Qureshi's lab also innovates in digital design and manufacturing chains. This includes developing algorithms and software for additive manufacturing, reverse engineering, and computer-aided path planning.