What's next for manufacturing? At our next Transylvania Lectures event, Prof. Dr. Torbjørn Netland will showcase a variety of research projects conducted in his group in cooperation with industry leaders. By showing examples ranging from explainable AI (XAI) in Siemens to drones in IKEA, the speaker highlights the great potential of new technologies to innovate and improve performance in manufacturing.

Prof. Dr. Torbjørn Netland is Full Professor and Head of Chair of Production and Operations Management at ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich, Switzerland. He is a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains, a Fellow of the European Academy for Industrial Management, and President of the POMS College of Operational Excellence.

His research on achieving and sustaining manufacturing excellence appears in leading scientific journals and he is co-author of the 800-page textbook “Introduction to Manufacturing: An Industrial Engineering and Management Perspective” (Routledge, 2022). Torbjørn is also co-founder of EthonAI (www.ethon.ai), a startup offering state-of-the-art AI solutions for quality management.

The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Levente Szász, Vice Dean and Full Professor at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Economics and Business Administration in Hungarian Language. This event is organised by Mathias Corvinus Collegium, in collaboration with Babeș-Bolyai University.

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