Seminar: Additive Manufacturing from Prototyping to Production

Abstract

Additive manufacturing is sweeping the industrial landscape with novel designs, unprecedented speed-to-market, highly flexible supply chains and new business models. New processes, materials, equipment and companies are announced almost daily. In 2016, Eaton set up their Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) in Southfield, Michigan to usher in a new era in the company’s manufacturing capabilities by adding cutting-edge 3D printing technologies for both metal and polymer applications.

In this seminar Garimella will share his experiences in this journey – from making the case for the AM CoE to getting the facility ready for series production of aerospace components. The seminar will also highlight the many technical and economic challenges that need to be addressed, before the promise of additive manufacturing can be fully realized.

About the speaker

Srinivas Garimella directs the strategy and operation of Eaton’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence. He also leads the Additive Manufacturing portfolio of initiatives out of the CTO office. He joined Eaton in September 2013 in the Manufacturing and Supply Chain team in Electrical Sector to lead initiatives in global multi-site manufacturing strategies, operations turn-around, core/non-core manufacturing framework and innovation.

Prior to Eaton, Garimella worked for Alcoa and Deloitte Consulting. At Deloitte, he led a variety of engagements in manufacturing/supply chain strategy, operations transformation, inventory reduction, lean manufacturing, merger integration planning, ERP system planning and infrastructure risk assessment.  At Alcoa, he led programs to align innovation strategy to business strategy, structure robust early stage innovation processes, deliver breakthrough technologies in energy efficiency and primary metals processing, drive collaborative new product/process development with external entities as part of Alcoa’s Open Innovation initiative and develop/deploy control and automation technologies to improve productivity and product quality in Alcoa’s facilities world-wide.

Srinivas earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. He received Outstanding Accomplishment award from Carnegie Mellon for graduating at the top of the MBA class.

Hosted by Professor Krishnaswamy "Cheena" Srinivasan.