IN THE NEWS DENSO platform connects facilities worldwide
Michelle Atto
Leslie Bonthron
Damon Boone
Ruby+Associates team expands Ruby+Associates, Inc. has added three new employees to their team. Michelle Atto, PE, joins Ruby as Project Engineer I. Atto has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor in Math from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Engineering in Civil and Materials Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Atto is a licensed professional engineer with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Leslie Bonthron joins Ruby as Engineer I, Bonthron joins the firm after spending her 2018 summer internship with Ruby. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Engineering and Management from Purdue University in 2018 and went on to earn her Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering at Purdue. Damon Boone is a BIM Technician. Boone joins the Ruby team officially, after working with the firm as a contract employee for a year. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Technology Management, magna cum laude, from Eastern Michigan University, as well as an associate’s degree in Architecture/Construction Technology from Henry Ford Community College. He is a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAMP) from the Project Management Institute, Great Lakes Chapter.
Altair Joins Avicenna Alliance Altair has joined the Avicenna Alliance, an international consortium committed to the use of simulation to enable faster and more efficient development of new medicine and healthcare solutions. Altair is a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high-performance computing (HPC), and data analytics. Established in 2016, the alliance brings together stakeholders in industry, government, and academia to promote the benefits of ‘in silico’ medicine to overcome the prohibitive costs and delays often associated with conventional pharmaceutical trials, testing, and medical device development.
DENSO Corporation has developed a Factory-IoT Platform that connects 130 production factories worldwide with information technology (IT) and internet of things (IoT) technologies, based on the concept of “as if under one roof.” This is the first in-house development of a cloud-native platform using open-source-software in the automotive supplier industry. The newly developed platform stores data collected from a variety of equipment at various production sites in a single cloud that can be used freely across DENSO’s organization. By connecting factories around the world in the cloud, it strengthens DENSO’s global production system, enables factories to respond immediately to production changes based on local demand, and allows production teams to conduct real-time analysis of the movement of workers and operation statuses of different facilities. In addition, technical engineers in the field can incorporate digital power using their own software into the physical improvement activities accumulated over many years, which will further accelerate gains in efficiency, quality and cost savings.
ESD Fellow Kouhaila G. Hammer is President and CEO of Ghafari.
Ghafari among “Best and Brightest Companies to Work For” For the 14th consecutive year, Ghafari was named one of “Metro Detroit’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For” by the Michigan Business and Professional Association. The annual awards program honors companies that are innovative in motivating their team members, excel at employee relations, and represent best practices in human resources. Ghafari will be honored at a virtual reception on October 27. T H E E N G I N E E R I N G S O C I E T Y O F D E T R O I T esd.org | 5
