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“This is the age of variation,” says Hoda ElMaraghy, a Canada Research Chair in Manufacturing Systems and director of the University’s Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Centre. “Change is here to stay and we have to embrace it.”

Click Here to read the DailyNews article - May 14, 2012

Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy Thanks the Ontario Government and the Ministry of Research and Innovation for their Funding Support.

On Wednesday, July 27, Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Dwight Duncan, Ontario's Minister of Finance, was on campus to make a funding  announcement on behalf of the Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI). This event took place at the new CEI building in the Industrial Courtyard. IMSC Director Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy thanked Duncan and the Ontario Government for their continuing support of research in Ontario and at the University of Windsor specifically.

Click Here to Read the Full Windsor Star Article

IMS Centre Seminar Announcement

  • Professor Ian McCarthy, Canada Research Chair in Technology & Operations Management, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University presented, “Industry Dynamics: Rethinking the Effects of Velocity on Product Innovation.”

New iFactory and iDesign Studio at the IMS Centre

  • The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded IMSC's Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy, Dr. Waguih ElMaraghy and Dr. Ahmed Azab $398,811 to support the development of an Innovation Design Studio and Transformable Manufacturing System, the first of its kind in North America. The systems will be housed in the university’s $112 million Centre for Engineering Innovation, scheduled to open for classes in the fall of 2012.

    According to Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy, the new iDesign Studio and iFactory will allow users to experiment with the entire chain of innovation. Stating, “It’s an assembly system. It contains robotic assembly stations, inspection stations, automated retrieval and storage systems, and material handling systems. It allows us to not only make things within that factory, but to reconfigure its layout. So if the market needs change in six months, we can reconfigure the whole layout in one hour. Think about that."

    To hear more about this exciting new addition to the University of Windsor and   an interview with Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy click here.

Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy Featured in Toronto Star Article

  • Dr. Hoda was featured in a Toronto Star article titled, “Industrial revolution will be close to home”, on November 24, where she discussed what the next industrial revolution will look like.  To read more click here.  

IMSC Represented at 10th Anniversary Event for Canada Research Chair program

  • On November 24 and 25, 2010, Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy and Dr. Ahmed Azab and Sameh Badrous (IMSC Student) travelled to Toronto for the 10th Anniversary Canada Research Chair: Thinking Ahead for a Strong Future event, in which an IMS Centre research poster that was designed by IMSC students was presented.
  • Dr. Hoda was also nominated as a panellist in the Advance Manufacturing: What Will the Next Industrial Revolution Look Like? panel where she presented her thoughts on the where industry will be in 10 years and her thoughts on increased Canadian productivity through reconfigurable manufacturing systems.

Keynotes Presented

  • The 8th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, Dr. Waguih ElMaraghy, “Future Trends in Engineering Education and Research,” Abu Dhabi University, Khalifa City, 22-24 November 2010.  
  • Competitive Sustainable Manufacturing Forum Seminar, Tampere, Dr. Waguih ElMaraghy, “Manufacturing Complexity Management,” & Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy, “Manufacturing Success in the Age of Variation,” Tampere, Finland, 4 August, 2010
  •  Stuttgart Competence Forum: Intelligent Production Systems of the Future, Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy, “Evolution Inspired Sustainability and Variety Management in Manufacturing Systems,” Stuttgart, Germany, 4 November.
  •  43rd CIRP International Conference of Manufacturing Systems(ICMS), Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy, “Manufacturing Systems Sustainability Through Perfect Co-evolution with Products,” Vienna, Austria, 26-28 May. pp. 19-28.
  •  30th Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Conference, Dr. Waguih ElMaraghy, “Complexity Management in Engineering Design and Manufacturing,” Windsor, ON, 14-17 January 2010.

 Student Papers Presented

  • 7th Jordanian International Mechanical Engineering Conference(JIMEC), Abdo Al-Zaher and Ana Djuric (PDF),“Design with Focused Flexibility of Automotive Framing Systems Using Reconfigurability Principles,” and Aiman Ziout, “Modeling & Optimization for Disassembly Planning,”Amman, Jordan, 27-29 September, 2010.
  • 60th CIRP General Assembly, Mr. Tarek Algeddawy, "Co-evolution hypotheses and model for manufacturing planning,” Pisa, Italy, August, 2010.
  • IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering(CASE 2010), Dr. Ana Djuric and Riyadh AlSaidi, “Global Kinematic Model Generation for n-DOF Reconfigurable Machinery Structure,”  Toronto, Canada, August 2010.
  • 3rd CIRP Conference on Assembly Technologies and Systems(CATS), Sameh Badrous, “A Classification Code for Assembly Systems,” Trondheim, Norway, June 1-3 .

 Awards and Honours 

  • Dr. Waguih ElMaraghy received the designation of “Fellow of Engineers Canada“ from Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), November 27, 2009.   
  • Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy received the University of Windsor's “Established Scholars/Researchers” award in recognition of her national and international leadership in research, February 2009. 
  • Dr. Ahmed Azab Ismail and Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy received the University of Windsor's “Outstanding Graduate Research,” February 2009.

Conferences 

  • Dr. Hoda ElMaraghy, Chair, 4th Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production, to be held in Montreal, Canada, 2-5 October, 2011. www.uwindsor.ca/carv2011.
  • Dr. Waguih ElMaraghy Chair, CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE 2009), Cairo, Egypt 4-6 May 2009. http://www.uwindsor.ca/lce2009.

Publications

  • The book titled “Changeable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems” discusses many key strategies for success in this environment. It presents the new concept of changeability as an umbrella framework that encompasses many paradigms such as agility, adaptability, flexibility and reconfigurability. It provides the definitions and classification of key terms in this new field and emphasizes the required physical/hard and logical/soft change enablers. Dr. Hoda is the Editor and author of 9 out of 22 Chapters in this book. The book is published by Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-1-84882-066-1. Visit the Book's page on the Springer website for further information.

The Book Flyer from the Publisher is linked for you. 

 

Last updated: February 2011