After graduating Tom started his career with Sirris in the machining department, which would later on evolve into the 'Advanced Manufacturint' Department. This evolution could be noticed in Tom's knowledge domains as well: he loves to work with several production technologies, from material to finished product and the entire organization surrounding this production process. His main interests will always lie in the smart handling of material removing machining techniques, such as complete machining and precision machining, next to cost estimation and machining of composites.
Tom has been involved in several European and Flemish research projects, and he has also worked with SMEs as well as large companies, to solve very diverse problems in production processes.
Publications
- A view of the future of machining
- Automatic detection of tool wear via intelligent vision techniques
- Ultrasonic support for milling aluminium
- Compensating spindle vibration with counter-vibrations
- Optical 3D measuring system integrated into a cobot
- How to use ultrasonically-assisted processing without a specialised machine
- Simpler communications between machines thanks to a plug-and-play adapter
- Fraunhofer presents the Machine 4.0 concept at EMO
- Multi-sensor solutions for predicting and monitoring tool wear
- Longer tool life with cryogenic machining