Dr. Michael Grieves, Digital Twin Institute, Florida, USA

Presentation Title: Digital Twins: Utilizing M&S to Drive 21st Century Transformation

Presentation Abstract: Digital Twins are driving 21st-century transformation by moving work from the physical world into the virtual world. This transformation replaces atom-based wasted physical resources of time, energy, and material with bit-based information. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is a prime technological enabler of Digital Twins. Dr. Grieves will discuss the integral role M&S plays in today’s Digital Twins for both products and processes, the role M&S will play in the future, and issues and technologies that will need to be considered and addressed.

Biography: Dr. Michael Grieves is an internationally renowned expert on Digital Twins, a concept that he originated, and organizational digital transformation. His focus is on product development, engineering, systems engineering, and complex systems, manufacturing, especially additive manufacturing, and operational sustainment. Dr. Grieves has written the seminal books on Product Lifecycle Management and the seminal papers and chapters on Digital Twins, He has consulted and/or done research at some of the top global organizations, including NASA, Boeing, Unilever, Newport News Shipbuilding, and General Motors.

In addition to his academic credentials, Dr. Grieves has over five decades of extensive executive and deep technical experience in both global and entrepreneurial technology and manufacturing companies.  He has been a senior executive at both Fortune 1000 companies and entrepreneurial organizations during his career. He founded and took public a national systems integration company and subsequently served as its audit and compensation committee chair. Dr. Grieves has substantial board experience, including serving on the boards of public companies in the United States, China, and Japan.

Dr. Grieves earned his B.S. Computer Engineering from Michigan State University, an MBA from Oakland University, and his doctorate from Case Western Reserve University.