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Industry Insights- October 2023

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Description

A Tribology Frontiers Conference Preview:
Designing surfaces to optimize performance and production efficiency.

Surface coatings and surface texture control the friction, adhesion, and wear of contacting components, as well as the lubrication and leakage of bearings and seals. For tooling and dies, suboptimal surface finish leads to production problems and downtime. However, the “optimal” surface finish varies by application. In this Industry Insights event, we will first discuss the limitations of traditional trial-and-error methods for selecting surface finish. Then, we will demonstrate how to use science-guided and machine-learning approaches to find the surface finish that optimizes a key performance metric, like product lifetime or production efficiency.

About the STLE Tribology Frontiers Conference:
It has gained a reputation for bringing together the tribology research community in a format that maximizes the opportunity to experience the latest in research and network with peers in a relaxed environment. The Tribology Frontiers Conference is designed for industry, academic and government researchers to engage with thought leaders from around the world and explore the role the science of tribology can play in solving future scientific and societal changes.

Contributors

  • Tevis Jacobs

    Tevis Jacobs is the President of Surface Design Solutions. He has worked in tribology and surfaces for 17 years in both fundamental research and in manufacturing. He currently leads efforts to find practical solutions to surface-finish problems in electronics, medical devices, and industrial manufacturing.

  • Lars Pastewka

    Lars Pastewka is the Director of Technology of Surface Design Solutions. His 20 years of tribology experience have been in applying modeling, simulation, and data-science to tribology. He is developing physics-informed machine-learning to find optimal surface-finish solutions.

October 26, 2023
Thu 11:00 AM CDT

Duration 1H 0M

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