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David A. Patterson Professor


Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences University of California Berkeley, CA


Jason Prater


Vice President of Development Plex Systems Troy, MI


Prater leads a team of developers whose cloud-based enterprise resource planning software for manufacturing undergoes


continuous improvement without the need for discrete updates. Prater brings a focus on operation performance to Plex from his experience as a materials manager at a Plex customer.


At an Association for Manufacturing Technology conference, keynoter Dave Edstrom (see separate entry) suggested the creation of an open, royalty-free standard to get information from machinery to applications that would improve productivity. Edstrom and AMT leadership subsequently visited Patterson at UC


Berkeley. Patterson enlisted help from colleagues, including William Sobel (see separate entry), and MTConnect was born in 2006.


Denise Swink Chief Executive Offi cer


Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition Germantown, MD


Swink worked in government and William Sobel


Chief Strategy Offi cer System Insights San Francisco, CA


Prior to founding System Insights, Sobel helped write MTConnect, an open-source, royalty-free standard to facilitate machine


tool connectivity. System Insights off ers industrial operations management software that uses cloud computing and machine learning to help manufacturers increase quality and profi ts while reducing their environmental footprint.


the private sector on manufacturing productivity and effi ciency, with an emphasis on technology


advancement and adoption. To promote industry, she


formed and led partnerships with private, government and academic entities to foster innovation, make plans a reality, and monitor eff ectiveness.


Pete Tecos


Executive Vice President 5ME


Cincinnati, OH


Tecos joined 5ME, which off ers a suite of fully confi gurable


machine-to-machine production management software, less than three years ago. He previously worked for 20 years in sales and sales management, and for longer than fi ve years in controls engineering. The 5ME applications are MTConnect-compliant and asset agnostic, even for legacy machines.


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