LEADERSHIP


Florian Weigmann Managing Director AXOOM Karlsruhe, Germany


Weigmann leads the Trumpf spinoff , which off ers small and medium-size companies IT solutions that can network all partners in the value


chain. This lets the partners’ machinery work together. The applications cover the entire value chain, from taking an order from a customer to invoicing.


Jim Wetzel


Technical Director General Mills Minneapolis, MN Board Chairman


Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition


Dave Wickelhaus Machining Systems Engineer TechSolve Cincinnati, OH


At TechSolve, Wickelhaus is responsible for co-developing the software applications ShopViz, and its earlier version MiniViz, for small


and medium shops to monitor machine tools and work orders in real-time. The applications are based on MTConnect, an open-source, royalty-free standard to facilitate machine tool connectivity.


At General Mills, Wetzel, a certifi ed project manager, is responsible for optimizing the existing asset base in Manufacturing Plants. The SMLC is comprised of higher education, government, industry and organization leaders working to make data-driven manufacturing attainable for all US industries through a cloud-based, open-architecture platform..


Deborah L. Wince-Smith


President & Chief Executive Offi cer Council on Competitiveness Washington, DC


Detlef Zuehlke Professor of Industrial Automation Technical University of Kaiserslautern Director of Human-Machine Interaction German Research Center for Artifi cial Intelligence Chief Executive Offi cer SmartFactoryKL Mannheim, Germany


Zuehlke, who holds a doctorate in robotics programming, founded the SmartFactoryKL, a demonstration and research center that focuses on smart factory systems. Its members are from global industries, education and research. His research interests include human-machine interaction in manufacturing as well as control structures and wireless technology in industry.


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Wince-Smith is administrative leader for the Council on Competitiveness, a nonpartisan nonprofi t that seeks to make the United States more competitive globally by promoting its ideas and policies to government and others. The council’s National Innovation Initiative infl uenced the America


Competes Act, enacted by President George W. Bush and reauthorized by President Barack Obama.


Spring 2016


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