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משה שפיטלני

משה שפיטלני

Schlesinger Chair of Manufacturing Systems

Education

  • 1972 – B.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion -I.I.T.
  • 1975 – M.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion -I.I.T.
  • 1980 – D.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion -I.I.T.

Research Interests

  • Knowledge Management for Product Life Cycle.
  • Life Cycle Engineering (Design, Manufacturing, Maintenance, End-of-Life).
  • Geometry (Modeling, Reasoning, Variational).
  • Intelligent CAD/CAM Systems and Geometrical Modeling.
  • CAD and CAM of Sheet Metal Products.
  • Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.
  • Non-Polynomial Problems in Manufacturing and Assembly.

Academic Appointments

  • 10/15 – present Professor Emeritus.
  • 1/99 – 9/15: Schlesinger Chair in Manufacturing Systems.
  • 6/97 9/15: Professor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  • 4/12 – 9/12 Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI USA.
  • 7/01 – 7/02 Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI USA.
  • 10/97 – 1/98: Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  • 9/97 – 10/97: Visiting Professor, Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
  • 7/90 – 6/98: Associate Professor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  • 1988: Tenure, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  • 8/87 8/88: Visiting Associate Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara.
  • 1/85 – 6/90: Senior Lecturer, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  • 8/83 – 12/84: Lecturer, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  • 5/81 – 7/83: Visiting Asst. Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.
  • 10/80 – 2/81: Lecturer, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  • 1980: Teaching Instructor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  • 1976 – 1977: Teaching Instructor, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  • 1973 – 1975: Teaching Assistant, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Public Professional Activities

  • Directory Board, VRL-KCiP, EU Net of Excellence (EC – 6th Research Frame) (2004-2008)
  • Editor-in-Chief, International Journal for Manufacturing Science and Production (2003- 2005)
  • Chair, CIRP Scientific Technical Committee on Design – STC Dn (2003-2006)
  • European Commission Fifth Framework Programmes, External Advisory Group (EAG)
  • on: "Innovative Products, Processes and Organisation" (1999-2002)
  • Member of the Georg Schlesinger Prize Committee – Appointment by the Senate of Berlin (2003-2008)
  • Vice Chairman, CIRP Scientific Technical Committee on Design – STC Dn (2000-2003)
  • Member, CIRP – Standing Editorial Committee (two terms) (1997-2003)
  • Member, Israel Theatre Academy (2004-2006)

Technion Activities

  • 6/15 – Present Head of the Technion's SLCM (Student Life Cycle Management) Project, New computerised system for Student Information System
  • 3/13 –12/14 Member, Sreering Committee, SAP – HR (Human resources)
  • 1/13 – 3/17 Deputy Vice President for Academic Affairs
  • 10/12-9/15 Head, Technion Interdisiplinary Committee on Autonomous Systems and Robotics
  • 11/12 – 9/15 Ellected Member of the Senate
  • 2012 Executive Board Representative and Campus Academic Liaison, iPodia AllianceTM
  • 1/06-12/11: Dean, Technion Graduate School
    – Member, Steering Committee
    – Member, Scholar and Prizes Committee
    – Member, Standing Committee Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
    – Member, Standing Committee for Honorary Degree
    – Member of the Senate
    – Member of the Sabbatical Committee
  • Vice Dean of the Technion Graduate School (2004-2005 )
  • Member, Degrees Committee – Technion Graduate School (2003-2004)
  • Head, (Minerva) Schlesinger Laboratory for Automated Assembly (1998-)
  • Member, Directors Advisory Council, Samuel Neaman Institute (2003-2005)
  • Chairman, Technion Joint Faculty-Students Committee (2000-2001)
  • Member, Technion Joint Faculty-Students Committee (2000-2001)
  • Member, Senate Standing Committee for Undergraduate and Graduate Studies (1995)

Faculty Activities

  • Head, Laboratory for CAD and Lifecycle Engineering
    (formerly Laboratory for Interactive Comp. Graphics & CAD) (1984-)
  • Head, Design, Manufacturing and CAD/CAM Specialization Courses (2004-)
  • Head, J. W. Ullmann Center for Manufacturing Systems and Robotics (1998-2001)
  • Assoc. Dean for Undergrad. Studies, Faculty of Mechanical Eng. (1994-1995)
  • Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Mechanical Eng. (1993-1994)
  • Development of the Computer Graphics and CAD Lab. (1983-1984)
  • Head, CAD/CAM Specialization Courses (1987-1997)

Membership in Professional Societies

  • CIRP (Fellow)
  • ASME (Fellow)
  • IEEE
  • IFIP (W.G. 5.2-CAD)
  • ITIM
  • SME (Fellow)

Honors and Awards

  • 2013: 2013 SME Albert M. Sargent Progress Award, SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers).
  • 2007: The WBMiZ Medal from Politechnika Poznanska, Poland
  • 2007: Fellow, SME (13151173)
  • 2006: Fellow – ASME (1122704)
  • German Technion Society Prize (2006)
  • Advisory Professorship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2005)
  • Hershel Rich Prize for Innovative Research on "Application of Artificial Intelligence in Man-Machine Interfaces" (1997)
  • Alexander Goldberg Prize for Research on "Geometrical Modeling and its Application to CAD/CAM and Manufacturing Processes"(1994)
  • Elias Family Lectureship Award (1985-1988)

Selected Publications

  • A. Fischer, M. Shpitalni, “Accelerating the Evaluation of Volumetric Modelers by Manipulating CSG Trees and DAGs”, CAD-Comp. Aided Design, Vol. 23, No. 6, July/Aug. 1991, pp. 420 434.
  • A. Blumfield, M. Shpitalni, E. Lenz, “A Generator for Creating Adaptive Post Processors”, Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 41/1, 1992, pp. 527 530.
  • A. Fischer, I. Gilboa, M. Shpitalni, “A Polynomial Algorithm for Minimal Interval Representation,” J. of Algorithms, Vol. 13, 1992, pp. 546-563.
  • M. Shpitalni, “A New Concept for Design of Sheet Metal Products”, Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 42/1, 1993, pp. 123-126.
  • M. Shpitalni, A. Fischer, “Separation of Disconnected Machining Regions on the Basis of a CSG Model”, CAD-Comp. Aided Design, Vol. 26, No. 1, January 1994, pp. 46-58.
  • M. Shpitalni, D. Sadan, “Automatic Determination of Bending Sequence in Sheet Metal Products,” Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 43/1, 1994, pp. 23 26.
  • M. Shpitalni, Y. Koren, C.C. Lo, “Real Time Curve Interpolators”, CAD Comp. Aided Design, Vol. 26, No. 11, 1994, pp. 832-838.
  • H. Lipson, M. Shpitalni, “A New Interface for Conceptual Design Based on Object Reconstruction from a Single Freehand Sketch,” Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 44/1, 1995, pp. 133-136. ****(F.W. Taylor Medal Award)****
  • H. Lipson, M. Shpitalni, “Optimization-Based Reconstruction of a 3D Object from a Single Freehand Line Drawing,” CAD-Comp. Aided Design, Vol. 28, No. 8, 1996, pp. 651-663.
  • M. Shpitalni, V. Manevich, “Optimal Orthogonal Subdivision of Rectangular Sheets”, Trans. of ASME J. of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 118, August 1996, pp. 281-288.
  • M. Shpitalni, H. Lipson, “Automatic reasoning for design under geometric constraints,” Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 46/1, 1997, pp. 85-89.
  • B. Radin, M. Shpitalni, I. Hartman, “Two-Stage Algorithm for Determination of the Bending Sequence in Sheet Metal Product,” Trans. of ASME J. of Mechanical Design, Vol. 119, No. 2, June 1997, pp. 259-266.
  • H. Lipson, M. Shpitalni, “On the Topology of Sheet Metal Parts,” Trans. of ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 120, No. 1, March 1998, pp. 10-16.
  • M. Shpitalni, B. Radin, “Critical Tolerance Oriented Process Planning in Sheet Metal Bending,” Trans. of ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 121, March 1999, pp. 136-144.
  • S. C-Y. Lu, M. Shpitalni, R. Bar-Or, R. Gadh, "Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies for Product Realization," (Keynote Paper), Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 48/2, 1999, pp.471-495.
  • D. Dutta, M. Shpitalni, "Heterogeneous Solid Modeling for Layered Manufacturing," Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 49/1, 2000, pp. 109-112.
  • M. Shpitalni, H. Lipson, "3D Conceptual Design of Sheet Metal Products by Sketching," Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 103, 2000, pp. 128-134.
  • Lipson, H., Shpitalni, M., 2000, "Conceptual Design and Analysis by Sketching”, Journal of AI in Design and Manufacturing, Vol. 14, pp. 391-401.
  • T. Freiheit, M. Shpitalni, S. J. Hu, Y. Koren, "Designing Productive Manufacturing Systems without Buffers", Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 52/1, 2003, pp. 105-108.
  • T. Freiheit, T., M. Shpitalni, M., S. J. Hu, 2004, “Productivity of Paced Parallel-Serial Manufacturing Lines with and without Crossover,” ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 126 (2), May 2004, pp. 361-367.
  • S. Takata, F. Kimura, F.J.A.M. van Houten, E. Westkämper, M. Shpitalni, D. Ceglarek, Jay Lee, " Maintenance: Changing Role in Life Cycle Management", (Keynote Paper), Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 53/2, 2004.
  • M. Shpitalni, V. Remennik, "Practical Number of Paths in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems with Crossover", International Journal for Manufacturing Science & Production, Special issue on Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2004, pp. 9-19.
  • S. Tichkiewich, M. Shpitalni & F. –L. Krause, “Virtual Research Lab: A New Way To Do Research”, (Keynote Paper), Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 55/2, 2006.
  • E. Stiassnie, M. Shpitalni, “Incorporating Lifecycle Considerations in Axiomatic Design”, Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 56/1, 2007.
  • B. Denkena, M. Shpitalni, P. Kowalski, G. Molcho, Y. Zipori, “Knowledge Management in Process Planning”, Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 56/1, 2007.
  • G. Molcho, Y. Zipori, R. Schneor, O. Rosen, D. Goldstein, M. Shpitalni, “Computer aided manufacturability analysis: Closing the knowledge gap between the designer and the manufacturer” , CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology (2008), doi:10.1016/j.cirp.2008.03.046.
  • Y. Koren, M. Shpitalni, "Design of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems." Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 29 (2010), pp. 130-141. (Most downloaded in August 2011).
  • Y. Koren, S.J. Hu, P. Gu, M. Shpitalni, ”Open-architecture Products (Keynote Paper), Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 62/2, 2013, p 719-729
  • G. Molcho , A. Cristal, M. Shpitalni, “ Part Cost Estimation at Early Design Phase”, Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 63/1, 2014
  • D. Weimer, B. Scholz-Reiter, M. Shpitalni, "Design of Deep Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Automated Feature Extraction in Industrial Inspection", Annals of the CIRP, Vol. 65/1, 2016 p 417-421
  • 65. Miri Weiss-Cohen, Michael Mitnovizky, Moshe Shpitalni, "Manufacturing systems: Using agents with local intelligence to maximize factory profit", Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, Volume 18, August 2017, Pages 135-144

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