Lecture：Professor Li JingShan from University of Wisconsin-Madison

Time：2015-07-06

Content：Production Systems Engineering: A Brief Overview, Recent Advances, and Beyond

Time：10:00am 09/07/2015

Location：Science Museum 207

Reporter：Professor Li JingShan，University of Wisconsin-Madison

Production Systems Engineering (PSE) is an emerging branch of Engineering intended to uncover fundamental principles of production systems and utilize them for the purposes of analysis, continuous improvement, and design. In PSE, the machines are assumed to be unreliable (obeying either Bernoulli, or exponential, or general reliability models), while the buffers are finite. Under these assumptions, production lines are nonlinear stochastic systems. The study of their statics and dynamics is the goal of PSE.

In this talk, the main problems of PSE and their solutions will be briefly described. Specifically, performance analysis, constrained improvability, bottleneck identification and lean buffer design, will be addressed. In addition, recent advances in PSE will be introduced, which include quality transition and propagation, flexible production lines, transient analysis and real-time control. Finally, extension of PSE methodology in healthcare delivery systems to improve quality of care, patient safety, and hospital/clinic efficiency will be presented.

Bio sketch

Dr. Jingshan Li received the BS from Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, the MS from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and PhD in Electrical Engineering – Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 1989, 1992 and 2000, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY from 2006 to 2010, and a Staff Researcher in Manufacturing Systems Research Lab, General Motors Research & Development Center, Warren, MI from 2000 to 2006. He is now a Professor in Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Dr. Li is the co-author of the textbook Production Systems Engineering (Springer, 2009; Chinese edition by BIT Press, 2012), and he co-editor of four book volumes. Up-to-date, he has published more than 70 refereed journal articles, 10 book chapters and 100 peer reviewed conference proceedings. He is the Senior Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation – Letters (RA-L), the Department Editor of IIE Transactions, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE),International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), International Journal of Automation Technology(IJAT), Flexible Service and Manufacturing (FSM), and was an Associate Editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering (MPE). He has served as the Lead Guest Editor and Editor of multiple special issues in IEEE TASE, IIE Transactions, IJPR and FSM. He is also the General Co-Chair of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (Madison, WI).

He received the NSF CAREER Award (2010-2015), the 2006 IEEE Early Industry/Government Career Award in Robotics and Automation, and multiple Best Paper Awards from IIE Transactions, IEEE TASE,and flagship international conferences. His papers have been frequently listed as the most popular articles in IEEE TASE and Journal of Emergency Nursing (JEN).

His primary research interests are in design, analysis and improvement of production and health care systems. His research has been supported by NSF, DOE, NIST, PCORI, industry and hospitals.