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- Industry 4.0: The digitalisation of manufacturing July 19, 2017
This article was first published in the July-August 2017 issue of MB Magazine, which carries in-depth feature articles, analysis and reviews of metal and steel markets
Published: July 19, 2017: 11:45 GMT: New York
Written by Myra Pinkham
The next industrial revolution – the digitisation of manufacturing – has started to make inroads into the metals ...
- Dr. Chenn Zhou Presents at International Conference ESTAD 2017 July 14, 2017
Dr. Chenn Zhou, Director of the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS), Director of the Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC) and professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University Northwest, was invited to speak at the 3rd European Steel Technology & Application Days (ESTAD), 2017, in Vienna, Austria. The conference took place ...
- 2017 Semi-Annual SMSVC Meeting held at CIVS at PNW May 17, 2017
CIVS hosted the two-day 2017 Semi-Annual meeting of the Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC) at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Indiana on May 16 and 17, 2017. The SMSVC is a steel industry consortium that focuses on the development of simulation and visualization technologies to address major issues faced by the steel industry.
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- Dr. Chenn Zhou Speaker at the HPC4Mfg Industry Engagement Day May 17, 2017
Dr. Chenn Zhou was invited to speak at the 2017 HPC4Mfg Industry Engagement Day: Spurring Innovation in U.S. Manufacturing Through Advanced Computing, on behalf of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office.
Dr. Zhou participated on the “HPC4Mfg Project Status and Impact” panel and spoke about the Blast Furnace HPC4Mfg ...
- CIVS Student Wins Award for Best Paper in Computer Applications at AISTech 2017 May 17, 2017
Guangwu Tang, a mechanical engineering graduate student in the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation, won Computer Application’s Best Paper for “Comprehensive CFD Modeling of EAF for Process Optimization” at the Association for Iron and Steel Technology Conference, AISTech 2017.
AISTech 2017 — Steel’s Premier Technology Event was held at the Music City Center, Nashville, Tenn., ...
- CIVS Team Wins Multiple Awards at AISTech 2017 May 17, 2017
The Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) students won multiple awards at the premier conference for the Iron and Steel Industry, AISTech 2017. Awards won by the CIVS team including first place for the 2017 AIST Hunt-Kelly Outstanding Paper Award (AIME), the Josef S. Kapitan Award for the second year in a row, ...
- CIVS Student Wins Second Place Award for Undergraduate Oral Presentation at AISTech 2017 May 8, 2017
Wenjie Liu, an undergraduate mechanical engineering student in the Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation at Purdue University Northwest, won the second place award for undergraduate oral presentation for “Design and Evaluation of a Reheat Furnace Using Numerical Simulation and Visualization “at the Association for Iron and Steel Technology Conference, AISTech 2017.
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- CIVS and AK Steel Researchers Receive the most prestigious AIST Best Paper Award May 1, 2017
CIVS and AK Steel researchers has been selected to receive the 2017 AIST Hunt-Kelly Outstanding Paper Award (AIME) – First Place for their paper entitled “Investigation of Co-Injection of Natural Gas and Pulverized Coal in a ... - CIVS Team Invited to Speak at 2017 Metallurgical Meeting at Nucor April 6, 2017
On April 6, 2017, Dr. Chenn Zhou, Armin Silaen and Guangwu Tang from CIVS attended Nucor’s 2017 Metallurgical Meeting in Crawfordsville, IN. Dr. Zhou gave a presentation on the overview of CIVS and SMSVC as well as Safety Simulator. Armin Silaen and Guangwu Tang gave updates on the research projects at the Steel Manufacturing Simulation ...
- ArcelorMittal hosted a tour for CIVS at their Indiana Burns Harbor Facility March 17, 2017
ArcelorMittal hosted a tour for CIVS students and staff members at their Indiana Burns Harbor facility on March 17th, 2017. The goal of the visit was to gain critical knowledge on the casting house and processes associated with casting. The students will apply what was learned during the tour and demonstrations to a casting project ...
