facility—to administer the MTConnect Student Challenge John P. Snyder, who is a senior mechanical engineer with Benét Laboratories and who is the lead program manager for the MTCon- nect Student Challenge, said the program’s goal is to make defense manufacturing, such as at the Wa- tervliet Arsenal, more effi cient and
MTConnect 2014 winner Valerie Pezzullo.
competitive by leveraging advanced manufacturing ideas from collegiate-level science, technology, engineering, and mathematic students (STEM).
It is widely accepted that the overall goal of manufactur- ing is to produce goods in a timely manner while provid- ing high levels of quality and minimal costs. MTConnect’s leaders believe the student challenge could lead to ideas and software applications that may improve the effi ciency of manufacturing.
Digital Manufacturing Visionaries
During an earlier 2014 MTConnect Challenge, which was open to both students and industry professionals, one of the contests was won by Clemson University student Valerie Pezullo. She was awarded $100,000 for her “Machining Process Monitoring to Aid in Chatter Identifi cation.” The application developed by Pezullo offers machin-
ing process monitoring, facilitates the communication of part-specifi c information, and includes customization and scalability for different manufacturing facilities and academic research institutions.
By integrating machining process information gathered
through MTConnect with information from data acquisi- tion tools and custom sensors, this application provides a means to monitor cutting conditions to help reduce and prevent chatter and aid in analysis to avoid subsequent unstable operating conditions. It also improves the input and tracking of part numbers and organics machining process information in a central location according to the specifi c part.
Another winner of the 2014 challenge was Joel Neidig who was awarded $75,000 for his “Expanding Manufactur- ing’s Vision: MTConnect + Google Glass.” Neidig began developing for the Google Glass in 2012. With its heads-up display, camera, touchpad, microphone
MTConnect 2014 winner Joel Neidig.
and other features, it seemed a like a natural platform for a manufacturing environment. “We started thinking more and more about it until the challenge was announced in 2013,” he told ME. “We thought to ourselves, ‘What if we were able to get our machine data and bring it to the readers view through Google Glass?’ Because it’s a very common and wearable item on the shop fl oor. MTConnect was the perfect protocol for this project because it integrated right into Google Glass. We spent 8–10 months building the application, and we continued to work on it even after it was submitted to the student challenge.” The app allows a user to gather and share machine data
provided by MTConnect, and to access the internet on de- mand for more information.
Neidig said participating in the challenge has been “cool and exciting.” “We’ve gotten a lot of recognition and business oppor- tunities with large Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric,” he continued. “The challenge brought a lot of attention to the application and we’ve been working on a lot of projects.”
All MTConnect Student Challenge submissions will be judged by an expert panel, which will be appointed by the DOD. “It is our collective hope,” Woods said, “that the MTCon- nect Student Challenge will inspire a broader base of soft- ware and system architects; build a new, skilled workforce by increasing students’ awareness of advanced manufacturing techonologies; and develop MTConnect applications that can easily be adopted by manufacturers of all sizes.”
Ghida Zahr. Zahr joined SME in 2015 as an intern in SME’s Advanced Manufacturing Media group, where she helps maintain the website and social media programs. She is a communications and journalism student at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
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