Shimon Y. Nof

Shimon Y. Nof is a professor of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He has held visiting positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at universities in Chile, the European Union, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, and Mexico. He is the and of the industry-supported Production, Robotics and Integration Software for the Manufacturing & Management (PRISM) Center at Purdue.[1]

Education

Nof received his B.Sc. in 1969 and M.Sc. in 1972 in Industrial Engineering & Management (Human-machine systems) from the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and his Ph.D. in Industrial & Operations Engineering (Production Simulation and Databases) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1976.

Research and consulting work

Nof has conducted research on collaborative e-work and e-business in multi-enterprise networks, integrated production and service systems, and decision support — as well as design of systems for managing distributed activities by collaborative teams. His research pioneered the development of knowledge-based, computer-aided facility design and control models. His current research focus is on computer-supported integration and collaboration of distributed e-work and robotics. Nof has developed and taught the courses "Industrial Robotics and Flexible Assembly", "Computer and Communication Methods in Production Control", "Integrated Production Systems I and II", "I.E. Computing", and "Design of E-work and E-business Systems".

Awards and recognition

In 1999, Nof was listed in the inaugural group of Purdue's Book of Great Teachers. In 2002, he was awarded the Engellerger Medal for Robotics Education. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the Secretary General of the IFPR (International Federation of Production Research), and the Chair of IFAC CC-Manufacturing and Logistics Systems.

Publications

Nof has published over 300 articles on production engineering and information technology and is the author/editor of nine books, including the Handbook of Industrial Robotics (Wiley, 1985) and the International Encyclopedia of Robotics (Wiley, 1988), both winners of the "Most Outstanding Book in Science and Engineering" awards by the Association of American Publishers, Industrial Assembly (Chapman & Hall, 1997, co-authored with H-J Warnecke and W. E. Wilhelm), and the Handbook of Industrial Robotics (2nd edition) plus CD-ROM, (Wiley, 1999).

References

  1. ↑ "Professor excels with robotics". Purdue Exponent. Retrieved 5 November 2014.

Personal page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/~nof/

PRISM at Purdue: https://engineering.purdue.edu/~prism/

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