A Driving Force Behind Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing

Industry 4.0 is here and it is completely transforming how companies are manufacturing improving,
and distributing their products. IoT, cloud computing, 3D printing, AI, and other novel technologies
are emerging as defining elements of smart manufacturing. Helping drive all of this innovation is Dr.
Dean Bartles.
After earning his Ph.D. in Technology Management from Indiana State University, Dr. Bartles began working in defense technology, which eventually led to his position at Fairchild Republic Company.

After working as an Industrial Engineer for five years, he moved on to work for the prominent aerospace

and defense company General Dynamics. It was here that he would ensure a number of
manufacturing operations throughout the world would be designed and developed.
Spending three decades as the Vice President and General Manager of the $600M Strategic
Business Unit at General Dynamics helped position Dr. Bartles as a leading authority on advanced
manufacturing.Today, he serves as the President and CEO of both the Manufacturing Technology Deployment Group (MTDG) and Advanced Manufacturing International (AMI).  His innovative mind,coupled with skilled management within the sphere of advanced manufacturing, skyrocketed the
sales of General Dynamics from $135M to $600M.
Thanks to Dr. Bartles' extensive experience with advanced manufacturing technology, he has
steered these companies in a way that provided reputable management of a wide array of customer
portfolios, programs, and projects. His exceptional attention to emerging trends and eye for what
works and what both cemented remarkable results for customers.
Inside the Mind of Dr. Dean Bartles
Dr. Bartles has always been fascinated by the progress achieved by technological innovations,
especially when it came to the manufacturing industry. He’s fascinated by how a bit of metal powder and a laser can bring almost any idea imaginable to life  Additive manufacturing, aka 3D printing, has indeed now become a key tool in advanced
manufacturing that is something Dr. Bartles has been spearheading since it first came onto the
scene.
Being thoroughly impressed with what 3D printing is doing for the manufacturing industry, Dean
seems it as being essential in developing the economy of the near future. Thanks to additive
manufacturing, products can be made in larger quantities, at a higher level of quality, and for much
less.

Something else that Dr. Bartles finds incredibly important is collecting more data for machine
builders and manufacturers

He believes this will allow them to boost uptime while reducing costs.
Data is the new digital gold, and provides invaluable insights into how machines are performing
when it comes to things like monitoring production status, understanding the condition of a given
machine, predicting the malfunctioning of machines, and optimizing the decision-making process.
As someone who has several decades of experience behind him, Dr. Dean Bartles can identify
problems before they become catastrophic. He sees some major problems when it comes to
developing a standard that machines use for communicating with each other. This closely ties into
smart manufacturing, which Dean was a driving force behind it becoming prominent today. Machine-
to-machine communication opens up a new array of opportunities for the development of precise
and up-to-date data that includes analysis, notifications, and other essential information.
Something else that has been on Dean’s mind more recently is the issue regarding small businesses
finding it challenging to integrate advanced manufacturing. This is often due to the higher initial cost
required to invest in these technologies. Given this major obstacle, adoption by smaller businesses
has been slow-going. Thankfully, Dr. Bartles has come up with a solution.

Advanced Manufacturing International (AMI) was founded to address this very issue.

As a subsidiary of MTDG, its role is to assist what are known as small-to-medium manufacturers (SMMs) to
modernize by adopting the latest advanced technologies at reduced costs. What AMI provides are
advanced manufacturing technologies that can be seamlessly integrated into SMMs for greater
profits. Dr. Bartles has led efforts to bring industry experts together with smaller businesses, helping them tackle challenges and implement low-cost solutions quickly and effectively
A Mind Motivated About Advanced Manufacturing

Dr. Dean Bartles has long been an innovator, and is today helping SMMs become a part of Industry
4.0 and smart manufacturing through AMI. As a leader within advanced manufacturing, Dr. Bartles is
helping with the further integration and adoption of these novel technologies for the benefit of both
businesses and their customers.