Speaker:

Bianca Maria Colosimo, Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Host:

Wu Jianguo, College of Engineering

Time: 15:00-16:30, March 25, Friday, 2022

Venue: Zoom Meeting ID: 919 9070 9245 Passcode: 503557

Abstract:

Additive Manufacturing (AM), commonly known as three-dimensional printing, is widely recognized as a disruptive technology, having the potential to fundamentally change the nature of future manufacturing. By building products layerwise, AM represents a paradigm shift in manufacturing, enabling the production of lightweight, customized products, with topologically optimized structures and high-value-added components with novel embedded functionalities that are difficult or even impossible to produce with traditional technologies. This new generation of products can find applications in different industrial sectors: from aerospace to automotive, from oil and gas to machinery, from biomedical to constructions, to name a few. Despite tremendous enthusiasm, AM faces several major research challenges for the widespread adoption of these innovative technologies. Among the most relevant ones, stringent quality standards and qualification requirements impose defect-free and first-time-right capabilities that are still challenging to achieve with state-of-the-art AM systems. This talk discusses existing solutions and open research questions for quality modelling, monitoring and control in AM via in-situ and in-line big data mining. Fostered by Industry 4.0, complex and massive data sets are currently available as multi-stream signals, image and video-images data. In this scenario, novel solutions for intelligent data analysis based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning represent a tremendous opportunity to reduce waste, thus fostering digital AM as a viable solution for sustainable manufacturing.

Biography:

Bianca Maria Colosimo is Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, where she is Deputy-Head of the Department. Politecnico di Milano is the first Engineering school in Italy, ranked among the top 20 universities worldwide in Engineering and Technology. Prof. Colosimo received her MSc and PhD in Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. After her PhD, she spent a visiting period as PostPhD at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interest is mainly in the area of advanced manufacturing with special attention to industrial data modeling, monitoring and control. She is author of 130+ peer-reviewed contributions, most of them published in peer-reviewed international journals and books. Prof. Colosimo is co-leading the research laboratory AddMe Lab, one of the leading labs on Additive Manufacturing in Europe. She is included among the top 100 Italian woman scientist in STEM.

Source: College of Engineering