Cobots as Enablers in Predictive Maintenance and Sustainability

Webinar – 29 October, 11:00-12:00 (CET)

Webinar Recording

Meet Our Speakers

Bart Van Doninck , Flanders Make

Mr. Bart Van Doninck is the Technical Domain Lead for Operator 4.0 research at Flanders Make. With a Masters’ degree in Mechanical Engineering (KULeuven, 2016) and extensive research experience in multidisciplinary projects, he has developed a broad expertise in product & process optimization, design for manufacturing and human-robot collaboration. His current focus is on Operator Assistive Technologies, including digital work instructions, collaborative robotics, and AR/VR training. More specifically, he explores how to deploy these technologies more effectively within flexible manufacturing environments.

Nikos Dimitropoulos, LMS

Mr. Nikos Dimitropoulos is a Physicist from University of Patras. He is currently employed as a Project Manager in LMS focusing on flexible, safe and efficient Human-Robot collaboration field. He has been involved in a number of EU funded projects (SHERLOCK, CONVERGING, JARVIS, Mari4YARD, HUMAN). Lean manufacturing based industrial layout and processes optimization, human factors and ergonomics in manufacturing, process and environment perception systems based on vision systems utilizing machine learning techniques, Human-Robot task and action planning, operator support in Human-Robot collaborative cells, indirect Human-Robot interaction, are, among others, some of the main research topics that has worked on.

Christos Gkrizis, LMS

Mr. Christos Gkrizis (male) is an Electrical and Electronics Engineer from University of Patras. He is currently employed as a Researcher in LMS focusing on Human Robot collaboration. He has been involved in various EU funded projects (SHERLOCK, CONVERGING, JARVIS). Over the past years he has worked on a variety of HRC related topics such as control systems in robotics, digital twins, environment sensing systems, safety on collaborative cells, computer vision and robot trajectory optimization.