Shimon Y. Nof

Shimon Y. Nof

Shimon Y. Nof is a Professor of Industrial Engineering, at Purdue University , has held visiting positions at MIT,and universities in Chile, EU, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, and Mexico and also the director of the NSF-industry supported [http://gilbreth.ecn.purdue.edu/~prism/ PRISM Center] (Production, Robotics and Integration Software for Manufacturing & Management). Received his B.Sc. (69) and M.Sc . (72) in Industrial Engineering & Management (Human-Machine Systems), Technion , Haifa , Israel ; Ph.D. in Industrial & Operations Engineering (Production Simulation and Databases), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (76).

Areas of scholarly and consulting work

Collaborative e-Work and e-Business in multi-enterprise networks; Integrated production and service systems, and decision support; Design of systems for managing distributed activities by collaborative teams. His research pioneered the development of knowledge-based computer-aided facility design and control models. Current research focus is on computer-supported integration and collaboration of distributed e-Work and robotics. Developed and has taught the courses "Industrial Robotics and Flexible Assembly", "Computer and Communication Methods in Production Control", "Integrated Production Systems I and II", "I.E. Computing", and "Design of e-Work and e-Business Systems".

In 1999, Dr. Nof was honored among the inaugural group in Purdue's Book of Great Teachers. In 2002, he was awarded with the Engellerger Medal for Robotics Education. Fellow of [http://www.iienet.org/ IIE] ,Secretary General of IFPR , Chair of IFAC CC-Mfg. and Logistics systems . Dr. Nof has published over 300 articles on production engineering and information technology, and is the author/editorof nine books, including the Handbook of Industrial Robotics (Wiley, 1985) and the International Encyclopedia of Robotics (Wiley, 1988), both winners of the "Most Outstanding Book in Science and Engineering" award by the Association of American Publishers, Industrial Assembly (Chapman & Hall, 1997, co-authored with H-J Warnecke and W. E. Wilhelm), and the Handbook of Industrial Robotics(2nd Edition) plus CD-ROM, (Wiley, 1999).

External links

* [http://gilbreth.ecn.purdue.edu/~nof/ Shimon Y. Nof website]
* [http://www.purdueexponent.org/interface/bebop/showstory.php?date=2002/11/11&section=features&storyid=ProfessorNof167 Newspaper article]


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