Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2023 / Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies Bd.377 (PDF)

Steffen Scholz is Head of the research team 'Process Optimization, Information Management and Applications', part of the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics (IAI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is a Honorary Professor at Swansea University, UK and an Adjunct Professor at the Vellore Institute of Technology, India. He was also Principal Investigator in the Helmholtz funded long-term programs 'Digital System integration' and 'Printed Materials and Systems'. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of system integration and automation, sustainable flexible production, polymer micro- and nano-replication, process optimization and control, with a recent emphasis on additive manufacturing and Industry 4.0 applications. In addition to pursuing and leading research, he has been very active with knowledge transfer to industry. He has been involved in over 30 national and international projects, and he won in excess of 20M EUR research grants, in which he has acted as Coordinator and/or Principal Investigator. His academic output includes more than 170 technical papers and 7 books.



Robert Howlett is the Academic Chair of KES International a non-profit organisation which facilitates knowledge transfer and the dissemination of research results in areas including Intelligent Systems, Sustainability, and Knowledge Transfer. He is Visiting Professor at 'Aurel Vlaicu' University of Arad, Romania, and has also been Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University, UK. His technical expertise is in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the solution of industrial problems. His current interests centre on the application of intelligent systems to sustainability, particularly renewable energy, smart / micro grids and applications in housing and glasshouse horticulture. He previously developed a national profile in knowledge and technology transfer, and the commercialisation of research. He works with a numberof