Center for Manufacturing Enterprise Integration

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Center for Manufacturing Enterprise Integration

• Dr. Vittal Prabhu and Dr. Soundar Kumara
• Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing
  EngineeringPenn State University
• June 9, 2000

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Motivation

• the recent years remarkable surge in
  availability of real-time information has enabled
  business management to remove large swaths of
  inventory, safety stocks, and worker
  redundancies, and has armed firms with detailed
  data to fine-tune product specifications to most
  individual needs.
• Alan Greenspan
• Federal Reserve Board Chairman

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CMEI Mission and Scope

• RD in enterprise integration for
• Decision-making and control of when supplier and
  customers are distributed
• Integration using open information and control
  systems to enable rapid interaction with
  suppliers and customers
• Integration from sensors to supplier (S2S)
  efficient use of resources

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CMEI Mission and Scope

• Manufacturing and IT - identified as strategic
  areas for PSU
• Partnership between university, industry, and
  government
• Multi-disciplinary resource of solving problems
  faced by industry
• Technology transfer from PSU to industry

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CMEI Focus Areas
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S2S Lab IMEInc.com

• State-of-art test-bed for experimentation and
  advanced research in S2S technology
• Enterprise integration arm for manufacturing
  facilities in Penn State
• Eg. as SMP servers, clusters, high-speed
  networks, sensor networks, open architecture
  controllers, and enterprise software (e-business,
  SCM, ERP, APS, MES)
• Serves as a neutral test-bed for industry
  partners for experimentation

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CMEI Organization
Industry Advisory Board Full Members
Academic Advisory Board Penn State
Vittal Prabhu Soundar Kumara Co-Directors
CMEI Faculty
Manager, Admin. and Mkting.
Visiting Scholars Post Doctoral Fellows
Grad and Undergrad Students
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CMEI People

• A. Balakrishnan, Operations Management
• S. Fonash, Nano Manufacturing
• N. Gautam, Communication Networks
• J. Krumrine, Industry Liaison
• S.R.T. Kumara, Information Technology
• V.V. Prabhu, High Performance Computing
• T. Pugh, Contracts Intellectual Property
• A. Ravindran, Operations Research
• R.A. Wysk, Shop-floor Control

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Benefits for industry partners

• Effective way of keeping abreast of advances in
  technology
• Fee waiver for Center meetings, conferences and
  seminars
• Access to Center Continuing and Distance
  Education courses (Fee)
• Access to faculty, graduate students, staff, and
  laboratory facilities associated with Center
• Access to Center for guest lectures and seminars

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Membership

• Associate Member - 10,000 per year
• Full Member - 20,000 per year
• Full Members
• Serve on the Industry Advisory Board
• Get to shape the research agenda!
• Mentor research projects and student projects
• Potential spin-off from precompetitve work

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Questions???

• Brochure in the packet
• Membership agreements available
• Website www.ie.psu.edu/cmei/