Présentation du professeur Yoram Reich Presentateur : Prof. Yoram Reich, Tel Aviv University
Date : Mardi, 14 septembre, 1999, à 14h00
Lieu : Eurisco, salle de réunion
Sujet : Building agility for developing agile design information system

Résumé
Agile manufacturing relies heavily on the quality of information that organizations have and on their ability to organize and reuse it. Constant inflow of information and knowledge is the fuel of agile manufacturing. In the process of forming virtual enterprises, these new organizations have to be equipped with information systems that integrate their present legacy technology and improve upon it. In order to support the quick formation of virtual organizations, one must have the ability to develop such systems quickly. Over the past years we have evolved, through collaborative projects with industry an approach composed of methods and an information infrastructure called \ndim/ that improves the ability of becoming agile manufacturers of information systems, by responding quickly to information needs of new and evolving organizations. Following an analysis of the requirements of information systems for agile design, we discuss this approach; describe some of the infrastructure features and present several examples of simple applications that illustrate them. We summarize by discussing the advantages and limitations of our approach.
This work was done in collaboration with the members of the n-dim group at ICES, Carnegie Mellon University: Suresh Konda, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Douglas Cunningham, Allen Dutoit, Robert Patrick, Mark Thomas, Arthur W. Westerberg and the \ndim/ group.

Biographie
Yoram Reich is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He received his BSc (Summa Cum Laude) and MSc (Magna Cum Laude) in Mechanical Engineering from Tel Aviv University in 1980 and 1984, respectively. Before obtaining the PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991, he practiced engineering design for over 7 years in the audio, structures and marine industries.
Yoram Reich has authored or co-authored of over 70 papers and is an associate editor of the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering and a member of the editorial board of the journal Artificial Intelligence in Engineering. He also serves on the advisory board and a member of the organizing committee of various conferences related to the application of computers to engineering. His research focuses on several interrelated topics: knowledge and product data management, agile manufacturing, collaborative design, machine learning and knowledge acquisition techniques for engineering applications, philosophy and theories of design, and research methodology. Yoram Reich is a senior member of SME and the chair of SME Israel chapter (319).