Keynote speakers

Prof. Bernhard Karpuschewski graduated from the University of Hannover, Germany. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1995 with a thesis titled “Micromagnetic surface integrity analysis of case hardened steel workpieces”. He was chief engineer at the Institute for Production Engineering and Machine Tools (IFW), University of Hannover until April 1999. From 1999 until 2000 he worked as Associate Professor at the Keio University, Yokohama (Japan). After that he was appointed as full professor for production engineering and head of the Laboratory for Production Technology and Organisation (PTO) at the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands), where he worked until March 2005. From April 2005 until August 2017 he was appointed as full professor for production engineering and managing director of the Institute for Production Technology and Quality Management (IFQ) at the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg (Germany). Since September 2017 he is full professor for manufacturing technologies at the University of Bremen and Director of the Division Manufacturing Technology at the Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering IWT, Bremen.

Since 2001 he is a member and since 2005 fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering Research (CIRP), member of the German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP), of acatech (National German Academy of Science and Engineering) and Fellow of SME (USA). He has published more than 450 scientific publications.

Ari Tolonen has more than 20 years of international experience in the Aerospace, Automotive, Defense and Manufacturing industries. He started his career in the military sector before taking on Mission Support and Sales management positions with Patria Vehicles and ABB, respectively, and then as a CEO of measurement equipment manufacturer Labkotec. Since September 2020, Ari has been working as a Managing Director of Stresstech.

Sami Niemeläinen has more than 20 years of experience in gear manufacturing, Barkhausen method and Stresstech devices in Katsa Oy. First Rollscan device was bought to Katsa in year 2000. Before gear manufacturing he worked in Sandvik. Since 2011 he has been working as a Quality Manager of Katsa Oy.