Conferência Hi-rEV 2024 - Shaping the Future of Automotive Components

Pro-diretora para a transferência de tecnologia,DEMec | Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Executive Board Member R&D, Product Engineering, Quality and Technology Develop | Palbit

Diretor Geral | HORSE

Diretor de Inovação | Simoldes

Responsável de Fabricação Aditiva | Erofio

Associate Professor | University of Kentucky's Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Title: Recent Advances Towards More Sustainable Machining Processes: Lessons from Aerospace Industry

Julius Schoop is an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. As a Manufacturing Process development expert, Julius integrates Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 principles to drive innovations that enhance the performance and sustainability of components in aerospace, automotive, and defense  industries. His research makes use of advanced in-situ characterization techniques to develop physics-informed and data-driven methods to transform manufacturing processes into surface engineering tools, enabling cost-effective, high-performance, and sustainable production solutions.

Founder and Co-Managing Director | data M Sheet Metal Solutions

Title: Advanced CAE Techniques for Roll forming in Automotive Industry

Albert is the Founder and Managing Director of data M Sheet Metal Solutions, specialized in the field of sheet metal processing. With more than 30 years of building up a unique knowledge in the field of roll forming, data M offers software and hardware solutions, along with consulting and engineering services in the roll forming area. Albert primary goal is to improve the technology and efficiency in roll forming industry, by employing a continuous effort in research and development, allowing data M to come across the industry’s greatest challenges.

Full Professor | Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Title: Evolution and Future Perspectives in the Numerical Simulation of the Sheet Metal Forming Process

Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC) and Principal Investigator at CEMUC. From 2013 to 2019 he was vice rector of the University of Coimbra. After the conclusion of its PhD, he builds a research team in the field of the numerical simulation and computational mechanics. This research group participates in several research networks related to the computational mechanics applied to mechanical technology, namely to the mechanical modeling and numerical simulation of sheet metal forming. The research interests are related to the physics and mechanics of large deformation processes, computational mechanics, mechanical modeling and numerical simulation, algorithms and programming, optimization, identification and calibration of constitutive models.

General Manager | Automotive Business Unit - MCG - Manuel da Conceição Graça

Title: Advanced techniques in product and process control enhanced by unit-level traceability

Carlos Saraiva, is currently Managing MCG AUTOMOTIVE Business Area, which focuses in product co-development, process development, industrialization and mass production of automotive products based on sheet metal that have stamping, welding and coating as its main manufacturing processes. He has an academic background as Aerospace Engineer from Instituto Superior Técnico at Universidade de Lisboa. Over the past 25 years he has been crossing a few areas such as Quality Control, Stamping and Welding Process Development and Tool Design, and, more recently, in more broad areas such as Engineering and Project Management, Business Development.

Associate Professor | Instituto Superior Técnico

Title: A Sustentabilidade na Indústria 5.0

Professor since 1991 in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico. He is also co-founder of ERISING, aimed at promoting the talent and value of the clients by finding wastes and inefficiencies, and turn them into an opportunity of improvement_._ At IDMEC he is responsible for various research projects in the area of operational efficiency and sustainability, with national and European companies. He has over 20 years' experience in applying Lean and developing new tools, achieving more than 100 international scientific publications.

Ex-Ministro do Ambiente / Professor | FEUP

Título: A Sustentabilidade na Indústria

Direção de Planeamento e de Políticas de Empresa | IAPMEI

Título: Passaporte Digital do Produto