LEADERSHIP


Jim Davis Vice Provost, IT & Chief Academic Technology Offi cer UCLA Los Angeles, CA Co-founder & Chief Technology Offi cer Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition


Davis has overall responsibility for UCLA’s digital presence and for


various university partnerships, including the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition. In the SMLC, higher education, government, industry and organization leaders collaborate to make data-driven manufacturing attainable for all United States industries through a cloud-based, open-architecture platform.


Thomas F. Edgar


Chairman, Chemical Engineering University of Texas Austin, Texas Co-founder


Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition


In addition to administrative duties and research on process modeling, control and optimization, Edgar directs the Energy


Dave Edstrom Chief Technology Offi cer Memex


Ashburn, VA


A longtime leader in the computer industry and more recently in manufacturing, Edstrom suggested an open, royalty-free standard to


get information from machinery to applications that would improve productivity. He worked with David Patterson at UC Berkeley (see separate entry) to develop MTConnect. Its introduction in 2006 made interoperability for manufacturing a reality around the globe. Memex is an Industrial Internet of Things technology platform provider that delivers real-time manufacturing productivity analytics.


Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as the Texas-Wisconsin-California Control Consortium, an industry-education research group. He co-founded the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition.


Franz Gruber


Chief Executive Offi cer Forcam


Ravensburg, Germany


Gruber founded Forcam, a company that provides software used in the automotive industry and elsewhere for monitoring and evaluating


manufacturing performance during the production Karen Kerr


Senior Managing Director, Advanced Manufacturing GE Ventures Chicago, IL


Kerr, who holds a doctorate in physical chemistry, is responsible for a team that develops partnerships


and makes investments in advanced manufacturing. She has been working in venture investing and the development of technology-based businesses for longer than 20 years.


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process. Forcam’s software is based on MTConnect, an open-source, royalty-freestandard that facilitates machine tool connectivity.


Spring 2016


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