| David
Edgar Hardt
Ralph
E. and Eloise F. Cross Professor of
Mechanical
Engineering
Professor of Engineering Systems
Dr.
Hardt holds a Ph.D. from MIT. His disciplinary focus is
system dynamics and control, as applied to manufacturing
at both the process and system level.
Dr.
Hardt’s teaching focuses on control, system dynamics,
and manufacturing processes. His research has been on flexible
automation, and process control, with an emphasis on welding
and forming processes. In welding, he pioneered the use
of multivariable control techniques for modeling and control
of GMAW, and demonstrated the use of adaptive control in
these systems. In the forming processes, he has concentrated
on the use of in-process measurements and real-time modeling
to reduce sensitivity to machine and material variations,
and has developed a flexible tooling and closed loop shape
control concept for 3D sheet parts. The latter is now in
the process of being implemented in the aerospace industry.
His current research includes an effort to use multivariable
optimal control methods to better manage collaborative supply
chains.
Dr.
Hardt’s most recent work involves developing a comprehensive
process control approach combining feedback and statistical
control methods.
Dr.
Hardt has served as Director of the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing
and as Engineering Co-Director for the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing
Program (now called Leaders for Global Operations). He is
currently leader of the "Innovation in Manufacturing
Systems and Technology Programme," part of an experiment
in distance teaching and research collaboration between
MIT and Singapore. He also serves on the Board of Simpler,
Inc., a lean manufacturing improvement corporation and as
technical advisor to Dimensional Photonics, Inc.
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