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KOCH Wolfgang Heinz
Professor of Data-integrated Manufacturing at NTNU, Trondheim
Professor II of Computer-Aided Manufacturing at Narvik
University College (NUC)
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Facultas docendi (Qualification to teach at universities)
Diplom-Mathematiker (Dipl.-Math.)
Work experience:
1971 - 1974: At the former company CARL ZEISS, Jena (Germany):
Operations researcher, computer systems organiser for CA Process Planning & Control
1974 - 1985: At Dresden University of Technology (DUT), department of numerical
mathematics (research group 'Nonlinear Optimisation'):
Research and education assistant
1975 - 1984: Co-working in developing mainframe software packages for nonlinear optimisation
and their application in RD and industry
Since 1982: Own development of NOPT-KRS/NOPT-PC/NOSYS – an engineering-tailored software
system to treat numerically nonlinear optimisation problems on PCs in RD,
education and industry
1983: Academic degree Dr.rer.nat. at DUT
1984: Research visit at Budapest Institute of Automation (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
1985: Software system development KOWAVE (together with Prof. M. Sturm) for the
cost-optimal water distribution in complex water supply systems
1985 - 1986: At Warsaw University of Technology, Institute of Automation:
Research on conjugate gradient methods and application of nonlinear optimisation
1986 - 1987: At DUT, Zentrales CAD/CAM-Labor, in the division 'Fertigungstechnik und
Werkzeugmaschinen (Production engineering and machine tools)'; from 1990-
1992: Institut für Fertigungsinformatik, now: Institut für Produktionstechnik:
Research & education assistant
1987 - 1992: Assistant professor
1989: Awarding the Facultas docendi (Qualification to teach at universities)
Since 1990: Software development/-application BOPASG (Bore Pattern Soft Gauge) for the bore
pattern mating gauging & assembly simulation (together with Prof.Dr. Lunze,
Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (FH), Dr. U. Klingenberg, Dr. Th. Karl)
1990 - 1992: Elected management board member of Institut für Fertigungsinformatik at DUT
1991: Research work at University of Passau funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1971 - 1992: Supervision of 15 Diploma Theses and cooperation in optimisation application for 5 PhD
projects
1992 - 1998: At Sivilingeniørutdanningen i Narvik (SIN) - since 1994 part of Høgskolen i Narvik
(HIN) (Narvik University College):
Professor of Computer-Aided Manufacturing
1993 - 1997: Supervisor of the PhD student J. Bakkelund "Fabricating layers of loose powder for
layer manufacturing technology" (together with Prof. Ø. Bjørke)
1993 - 1998: Initiation and chairmanship of the International SIN CAM seminar,
Co-ordinator of the co-operation agreements between HIN and Westsächsische
Hochschule Zwickau (FH) and DUT, Institut für Produktionstechnik,
1994 - 1996: Elected head of the study course "Production Engineering" at SIN,
Member of the strategic planning group at HIN
1994 - 1997: Elected deputy member of HIN's managerial board,
Deputy member of the research board at HIN
1996 - 1998: "Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing" contact person to the Beijing Institute of
Petrochemical Technology (BIPT) (People’s Republic of China
1996 - 2000: Co-ordinator of the SOCRATES co-operation agreements at HIN
1997: Evaluation expert committee member for the Dr.ing.-graduation of Jim Bakkelund
1997 - 1998: Elected deputy member of HIN's council (høgskoleråd),
Deputy member of the research board at HIN
1997 - 2002: Norway-coordinator for the EU project “Transport Technology Product & Process
Innovation Management (TRANSTECH) in the RECITE II Programme of the
European Commission (Article 10.1b, ERDF No 98.03.29.001.BF)
(Principal Partners: Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (F), INETI Lisbon
(P), WISTA Management GmbH Berlin (D), Fraunhofer Institut für Produktionsanlagen und
Konstruktionstechnik (IPK) Berlin, National University of Technology Athens, MOTION
HELLAS Ltd. Athens (G) together with HIN as complementary partner)
Since 1998: At Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Department of Production and Quality Engineering
Professor of Data-integrated Manufacturing
Scientific advisor at SINTEF Industrial Management, Production Engineering
1998 - 2000: Professor-II of CAM at Narvik Institute of Technology
1999: Member of the evaluation expert committee for the Dr.ing. graduation of Bing Lei
1999 - now: Supervising of diploma thesis and internships at SINTEF Industrial Management and
NTNU, IPK (7 candidates for diploma thesis and 50 project students (from
Norway, France, Croatia, Sweden, Italy, PR China, Russia, Switzerland and Germany)
1999 - now Project manager "Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory" at IPK
2000 - 2002 Optimisation software contributions to the mating gauging simulation software
“Tolerancefit®” of Werth Messtechnik GmbH, Giessen
2001 - 2003: WinBOS software development (Windows version of BOPASG) (together with
Prof.Dr. Lunze, Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (FH), Dr. U. Klingenberg, Dr.
Th. Karl, Th. Lunze)
2001: Initiation and scientific leadership of the colloquium “Netzwerk für die virtuelle
Fertigung von kundengerechten Brillen” at TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Organisation
together with Prof. B. Hentschel)
2001 - now: Professor-II of CAM at Narvik University College
2001 - 2006 Supervisor of the PhD candidate Gry-Lene Johansen "MP manufacturing process
chain modelling and optimization”
2002 - now: Department’s contact person for students’ abroad study courses
Software development Nonlinear Optimisation Tools (NOPTools) (together with Prof.
U. Lunze, Dipl.-Inf. M. Gläser)
2003 - 2004: Supervisor of the PhD candidate Meng Tang "The Adaptive Intelligent Model for
Process Diagnosis, Prediction and Control", finished successfully in Nov. 2004
2006 Initiator and scientific leadership of the IPK International Workshop "Virtual
Manufacturing Networks for Individualised Products", 16.10.- 17.10.2006 in the "Polen
2006" initiative at NTNU
2007 Guest researcher at TU Bergakademie Freiberg and Hochschule für Technik und
Wirtschaft Dresden (5 months)
2007- Supervisor of the PhD candidate Jingming Huo (together with Prof. T. K. Lien)
"Functionally graded materials for highly stressed components"
1993 - now: Ownership and supervision in 27 Diploma Thesis, 39 Internships, 32 DIM course
projects, 2 IASTE projects and 9 specialisation projects (Croatia, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, PR China, Singapore, Sri Lanka)
Membership in academic and professional committees:
Since 1990: Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI),
Since 1990: Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR)
1996 - 1997: International Programme Committee member for the 5th International Rapid
Prototyping User Congress "Product and Process Innovation by Means of New of New
Technologies", 1997, Dresden
2004 – 2005: Member of the International Scientific Committee for International Conference on
Agile Manufacturing (ICAM-2005), July 2005, Helsinki
Since 2006 Member of International Society of Agile Manufacturing (ISAM )
Fields of interests and present research activities :
Data-Integrated Manufacturing (DIM) - product life cycle oriented, ICT utilising and nonlinear optimisation based.
Recently focussing on
* ICT for Time-compression Manufacturing Technologies (e.g. IPK's Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory)
* Metal Printing Process Chain Modelling and Optimisation
* Virtual Manufacturing Networks for Product Individualisation
(Application Case: Customer-individualised Spectacles Production _ IPK International Workshop "Virtual
Manufacturing Networks for Individualised Products" during NTNU's "Polen 2006")
* Low-cost Geometric Reverse Engineering (Application Cases: 3D Face Scanning, Preventive & Conditionmonitored
Maintenance for Railway Wheel Sets)
* Capabilities of CAD/CAM Software Systems and Open-Source CAD/CAM/CAQ
* Close-to-manufacturing CAQ
(Mating gauging and assembly simulation - optimisation contributions to Windows BOre pattern Softgauge
(WinBOS) and Werth Messtechnik Tolerancefit®)
* Optimisation-based Manufacturing Systematics
Selected papers 2001-2007:
A) Papers:
Koch, W. H./Hentschel, B. (Eds.): Netzwerk für die virtuelle Fertigung von kundengerechten Brillen. Proceedings of the
Kolloquium “Netzwerk für die virtuelle Fertigung von kundengerechten Brillen” at TU Bergakademie Freiberg,
2001.
Koch, W. H.: Netzwerk für die virtuelle Fertigung von kundengerechten Brillen. In: Proceedings zum Kolloquium
“Netzwerk für die virtuelle Fertigung von kundengerechten Brillen” an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2001.
Koch, W. H./Moen, D. St.: Regional strategies in transportation technologies in the Narvik region – the Narvik
TRANSTECH contributions. In: TRANSTECH: Transport Technology Product & Process Innovation
Management: a successful experiment. Final scientific report for the EU Recite II project "Transport Technology
Product and Process Innovation Management (TRANSTECH)", Presses Universitaire de Valenciennes, 2002,
p.101-125.
Plan_ak, M./Koch, W. H.: Komercijalni rapid prototyping sistemi. In: BLAGOJEVI_, D. (Ed.):Proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Accomplishments of Electrical and Mechanical Industries. Banjaluka (Serbia), 2003,
p. 189-192.
Plan_ak, M./Koch, W. H.: Stereolitografia - Dominantna RP tehnologija. In: _OSI_, I. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 8th
International Conference on Flexible Technologies, University of Novi Sad (Serbia), 2003, p. 157-158.
Tang, M./ Koch, W. H.: An Integrated Intelligent Model based Fuzzy TS NARX for Process State Detection and
Prediction. In: Proceedings of 4. International Conference “Intelligent systems Design and applications (ISDA
2004), Budapest (Hungary), August, 2004, p. 435 – 440.
Koch W. H./Ponomareva E. S.: Quality of Machining Process through Cutting Value Decision Making. In: Proceedings of
the 5th International Thermophysical School, Tambov State University, Tambov (Russia), September, 2004.
Tang, M./Koch, W. H.: An Adaptive Fuzzy Model based Process State Identification for Prediction and Control.
In: Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS), Singapore,
December, 2004.
Koch W. H./Ponomareva E. S.: Cutting Value Decision Making fo Extended Machining Process Quality. Transactions of
the Tambov State Technical University, 11(2005)1B, p. 231 - 240. ISSN 0136-5835.
Koch, W. H.: Oppbygging av Rapid Manufacturing laboratoriet. Prosjektbeskrivelse til NFR søknad, NTNU, Trondheim,
2007.
Bendiksen, M. /Koch, W. H. /Solvang, B. [2007]: Visualization and Control of Flexible Manufacturing System for
Production Engineering Service Flexibility Realization at Narvik University College. Research Report, Narvik
University College, 2007.
Koch, W. H./Huo, J.: Slice Generation For Functionally Graded Material Based On Finite Element Analysis And
Optimisation. Research Report, NTNU, Trondheim, 2007.
B) Lectures (besides the lectures for sivilingeniørstudiet and PhD-studiet at NTNU (since 1998) and Narvik University College (since 1993)):
International:
Koch, W. H.: Geometric Reverse Engineering zur Beschleunigung von Produktentwicklung und Produktion.
Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Fachbereich Mathematik und Technik, Bielefeld (Germany), 1999.
Koch, W. H.: Stand und Einsatzmöglichkeiten der Stereolithographie unter Berücksichtigung der Prozeßkette.
Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fachbereich Maschinenbau, München (Germany), 1999.
Koch, W. H.: Beschleunigung der Produktentwicklung durch Geometric Reverse Engineering zu niedrigen Kosten.
Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fachbereich Maschinenbau , München, 1999.
Koch, W. H.: Einsatzvorbereitung und Betrieb von computergesteuerten flexiblen Produktionssystemen unter
Praxisbedingungen. Fachhochschule Merseburg, Fachbereich Maschinenbau, Merseburg (Germany), 1999.
Koch, W. H.: Datenintegrierte Fertigung – Forschung und Lehre an der NTNU. Lecture for Wissenschaftliches
Kolloquium at Institut für Produktionstechnik, TU Dresden, Dresden (Germany), 2000.
Koch, W. H.: Low-cost Geometric Reverse Engineering. Fakultät Maschinenbau, Verfahrens- und Energietechnik der
Technischen Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany), 2000-2005.
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Koch, W. H.: Production Engineering Service Flexibility for SMEs. Management Board Meeting in the European
Community Recite II project "TRANSTECH", Narvik Institute of Technology, Narvik, 2000.
Koch, W. H.: Netzwerk für die virtuelle Fertigung von kundengerechten Brillen. Kolloquium “Netzwerk für die virtuelle
Fertigung von kundengerechten Brillen” an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2001.
Koch, W. H.: Regional Strategies in Transportation Technology in Nordland. International TRANSTECH Supplier
Meeting Transportation Technology “Trends in Supplier Relations for SMEs”, Berlin, 2001.
Koch, W. H.: Data-integrated Manufacturing - Education and RD at NTNU. Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-
Cambrésis, Valenciennes (France), 2002.
Koch, W. H.: On a Profile for Data-integrated Manufacturing. Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis,
Valenciennes, 2002.
Koch, W. H.: Rapid Prototyping & Tooling. Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, Valenciennes, 2002.
Koch, W. H.: Data-integrated Manufacturing at NTNU. VDI-lecture at Fachhochschule Schmalkalden, 2002.
Koch, W. H.: Data-integrated Manufacturing Challenges. Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (FH), 2003.
Koch, W. H.: Low-cost Geometric Reverse Engineering accelerating product and production process development.
Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (FH), 2003.
Koch, W. H.: Rapid Prototyping & Tooling. Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (FH), 2003.
Koch, W. H.: Low-cost Geometric Reverse Engineering. VDI-lecture at Technische Universität Ilmenau and
Fachhochschule Schmalkalden, 2003.
Koch, W. H.: Direct Metal Object Fabrication (DIMOF). VDI-lecture at Technische Universität Ilmenau, 2004.
Koch, W. H.: On Geometric Reverse Engineering Capabilities. Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (FH), 2004.
Koch, W. H.: Recent Developments in Data-integrated Manufacturing (DIM). Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, 2004.
Koch, W. H.: Angewandte nichtlineare Optimierung in der Produktionstechnik. VDI-lectures at Technische Universität
Ilmenau, Ilmenau and at Fachhochschule Schmalkalden, 2005.
Koch, W. H.: Datenintegrierte Konstruktion und Fertigung von Papier mit optimalen Kosten oder Eigenschaften.
Papiertechnische Stiftung Heidenau, Heidenau (Germany), 2005.
Koch, W. H.: On Geometric Reverse Engineering Capabilities. Fakultät Maschinenbau, Verfahrens- und Energietechnik
der Technischen Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, 2006.
Koch, W. H.: Direct Metal Object Fabrication (DIMOF). Lecture in the International Study Programme "Manufacturing
Technology" at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH), 2006.
Koch, W. H.: Data-integrated Manufacturing for Individualised Products. lecture in the International Study
Programme "Manufacturing Technology" at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH), 2006.
Koch, W. H.: Geometric Reverse Engineering supports product and production process improvements.
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH), 2006.
Koch, W. H.: Data-integrated Manufacturing (DIM) for Individualised Products – Case: Spectacles production.
IPK International Workshop "Virtual Manufacturing Networks for Individualised Products" during "POLEN
2006" at NTNU, Trondheim, 2006.
Koch, W. H.: Data-integrated Manufacturing (DIM) for Individualised Products – Case: Spectacles production.
International Study Programme "Manufacturing Technology"at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden
(FH), 2007.
Koch, W. H.: "Open-Source" CAD/CAM/CAQ for Free-form Curve Segments with Curve Tracking Algorithms and
Closed Quality Loop Manufacturing Realisation. International Study Programme "Manufacturing Technology" at
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH), 2007.
Koch, W. H.: Geometric Reverse Engineering supports Product and Production Process Improvements.
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (FH), 2007.
Koch, W. H.:): "Open-Source" Geometric Modelling including Physical Realisation of Freeform CAM".
Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, 2007.
Koch, W. H.: "Open-Source" CAD/CAM/CAQ for Free-form Curve Segments with Curve Tracking Algorithms and
Closed Quality Loop Manufacturing Realisation. VDI-Lecture at TU Ilmenau, 2007.
Koch, W.H./Huo, J.: Slice Generation for Functionally Graded Materials Based on Finite Element Analysis and Design
Optimisation. TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2007..
Koch, W. H.: On Data-Integrated Manufacturing (DIM). TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2007.
National (since 1999 because of its relevance):
Koch, W. H.: Integrated Product Development and Manufacturing - A Virtual Manufacturing Application for Spectacles
Production. SINTEF Industrial Management, Production Engineering, Trondheim, 1999.
Koch, W. H.: Data-integrated Manufacturing. State of the art and actual projects.
Department of Production and Quality Engineering, NTNU Trondheim, 1999.
Koch, W. H.: Data-integrated Manufacturing Challenges. Work meeting in the co-operation project between Verbundnetz
Gas AG Leipzig, TU Bergakademie Freiberg und NTNU Trondheim. NTNU, Trondheim, 2000.
Koch, W. H.: Time-compression Manufacturing Technologies.
Department of Production and Quality Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, 2000.
Koch, W. H.: Direct Metal Object Fabrication (DIMOF). Lectures in the course TMM 4180 Casting Technology at
NTNU/IPM, Trondheim, 2005 and 2006.