Contact Details

Position

Environmental Technologies Specialist

Affiliation

Dr Amro Farid

Introduction

Amro completed his PhD at the Institute for Manufacturing on the design and evaluation of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems under Professor Duncan McFarlane. His research develops industrially applicable evaluation and design techniques that can support the reconfigurations necessary for short product life cycles and mass-customization.

He currently works for Air Liquide Group as an environmental technologies specialist where he facilitates the adoption of the best available environmental techniques into the design and operation of hydrogen production facilities.

Professional Interests

• Integration of Industrial Automation & Control Systems
• Intelligent & Autonomous Systems
• Distributed Hydrogen Production & Delivery
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Intelligent Power Grids
• Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
• Systems Engineering, Dynamics, & Control

Background

Amro is from Mansfield, Connecticut. Prior to coming Cambridge, he received his Sc.B. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT where he focused on System Dynamics and Control. Specifically, his undergraduate thesis treated lateral tip-sample forces in the Atomic Force Microscope. He continued within the same MIT department to receive his Sc.M in the field of Quantum Information Processing (QIP). His thesis described a method to correct disturbances used in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) pulses. Amro has also completed internships on engine controller design at Cummins Engine Company, robotics controller design at Terdyne and statistical modelling of the French national energy market at Air Liquide.

Publications

Doctoral Thesis

• Reconfigurability Measurement in Automated Manufacturing Systems

Journal Papers

1. Farid, A.M. Product Degrees of Freedom as Reconfiguration Potential Measures. (to appear in) ITSSSA: International Transaction on Systems Science and Applications. (2008)
2. Farid, A.M. and McFarlane, D.C. Production Degrees of Freedom as Reconfiguration Potential Measures. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture. 222(10):1301-1314. (2008)
3. Farid, A.M. Modularity as Reconfiguration Ease Measures. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture. 222(10):1275-1288. (2008)
4. Farid, A.M. and McFarlane, D.C. A Design Structure Matrix Based Method for Reconfigurability Measurement of Distributed Manufacturing Systems. International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems. Special Issue: 12(2):118-129. (2007)
5. Covanich, Wuttiphat, McFarlane, Duncan C., Brusey, J. and Farid, A.M. Ready Configuration of Machines into an Existing Manufacturing System. International Journal of Agile Manufacturing. 10(2):5-18. (2007)
6. Pravia, M.A., Boulant, N., Emerson, J., Farid, A.M. et al. Robust Control of Quantum Information. Journal of Chemical Physics, 119 (19). pp. 9993-10001.

Conferences

1. Farid, A.M and Covanich, Wuttiphat. Measuring the Effort of a Reconfiguration Process. INDIN 2008 – The Sixth International Conference on Industrial Informatics. Daejeon, Korea. (2008)
2. Covanich, W., McFarlane, D. C., and Farid, A.M. Guidelines for Evaluating the Ease of Reconfiguration of Manufacturing Systems. INDIN 2008 – The Sixth International Conference on Industrial Informatics. Daejeon, Korea. (2008)
3. Covanich, W., McFarlane, D.C, Brusey, J., Farid, A.M. Integrating a New Machine into an Existing Manufacturing System by Using Holonic Approach. IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics. Volume 2. 861-866. 2007.
4. Farid, A.M., and McFarlane, D.C. A Tool for Assessing Reconfigurability of Distributed Manufacturing Systems. INCOM: 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing. Saint-Etienne, France. 2006.
5. Farid, A.M., and McFarlane, D.C. An Approach to the Application of the Design Structure Matrix for Assessing Reconfigurability of Distributed Manufacturing Systems. IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems, Collective Intelligence, and its Applications. Prague, Czech Republic. 2006.
6. Farid, A.M., and McFarlane, D.C. A Development of Degrees of Freedom for Manufacturing Systems. IMS 2006: International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems: Agents and Virtual Worlds. Sakarya, Turkey. 2006.
7. Covanich, W., McFarlane, D.C., Brusey, J., Farid, A.M. Physical Resource Coordination in Manufacturing Systems. INCOM: 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing. Saint-Etienne, France. 2006.
8. Kelepouris, T, Wong, C.Y., Farid, A.M., Parlikad, A.K., and McFarlane, D.C. Towards a Reconfigurable Supply Network Model. Intelligent Production Machines and Systems. Elsevier. Cardiff, UK. 2006.