Kos Ishii - Director Kurt Beiter - Associate Director Sandi Cano - Administrative Associate Mailing Address: Manufacturing Modeling Laboratory Thornton 207 Stanford, CA 94305-4022

Who we are Manufacturing Modeling Laboratory (MML) at Stanford investigates methods and tools that aids decision making in manufacturing enterprises. The laboratory's interest covers a broad spectrum of manufacturing activities including customer value identification, product design, production process and supply chain, and life-cycle management. As such, while its home department is the Design Division of Department of Mechanical Engineering, MML has close interaction with the Management Science and Engineering Department as well as the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The laboratory occupies about 2,500 square feet of space on the second floor of the Thornton building. Currently, the space houses 9 laboratory members: one research engineer (associate director), six Ph.D. students, one teaching assistant (MS candidate), and an administrative assistant. Current research focuses on an area commonly known as design for X (dfX): robust design for quality, design modularization for supply chain efficiency and development flexibility, and life-cycle engineering. Major sponsors of MML research include the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, General Motors, General Electric, Toshiba, ABB, and Sony. The laboratory is also responsible for ME317 Design for Manufacturability, a 6 months graduate course sequence that attracts nearly 100 students each year, of which 80 are distance learning students through Stanford Center for Professional Development. Distance learning sites span over 12 companies in 3 continents, 5 countries. ME317 also serves as needs-finding and validation ground for MML's research. A Tribute to Phil Barkan... A gift of a Mr. & Mrs. J. Frederick Weintz, Jr.