The Forgotten Trade
America is paying to build new plants. It also needs people who know how to design them.
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Stefan Stefanov
Manufacturing engineer and chairman, ISEE
Biography
Stefan Stefanov is a manufacturing engineer and chairman of the Institute for Systemic Economic Engineering (ISEE) in Sofia. ISEE is developing an open model of the manufacturing enterprise and related software. He has spent his career using that model to start up and turn around machine-building plants. He is the author of Zero to Industry: Unlocking the Next Industrial Revolution and has presented ISEE’s work on plant-as-system design at ASME IMECE and IEEE EDUCON. He chairs the ASME Bulgarian Section and is an organizational secretary for the ASME Management Division.
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Disclosure
Stefan Stefanov is chairman of ISEE, a Bulgarian for-profit institute that develops and teaches an open model of the manufacturing enterprise (Business Model Ontology) and related software (Business Digital Twin). ISEE would benefit if public agencies or professional societies funded, hosted, or credentialed a shared body of knowledge on plant design of the kind this commentary recommends.
Independent contributor. Views expressed in his commentary are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute for American Manufacturing & Technology. Publication does not constitute endorsement of his employer or its services.