Thomas Hedberg, Jr. PhD, PE
Thomas Hedberg, Jr. PhD, PE
Dr. Hedberg leads the Acquisition and Industrial Security core mission area at ARLIS. Dr. Hedberg conducts Intelligence and Security research in the areas of product design, manufacturing, and lifecycle engineering using information modeling, knowledge engineering, ontologies, system integration, and advanced optimization techniques.
Dr. Hedberg joined ARLIS from the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). At NIST, Dr. Hedberg was the Program Manager of the Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) program and the Co-Leader of the Smart Manufacturing Systems Test Bed, which earned him the Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 2019. Dr. Hedberg has a strong interest in the areas of model-based enterprise, smart manufacturing, product-lifecycle management (PLM), data/information flows across supply chains, and long-term data archival and retrieval (LOTAR). Dr. Hedberg is the Chair of the ASME MBE Standards Committee, a voting member of the ASME Y14.37, Y14.41, and 14.47 standard committees, and a member of ISO TC184/SC4/WGs 11, 12, 15, 21 and the ISO TC184/SC4 Quality Committee.
Dr. Hedberg earned a B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University, a M.Eng. in Engineering Management with a concentration on Systems Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Hedberg is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the States of Arizona and Maryland.
EXPERTISE:
- Engineering Design and Manufacturing
- Model-Based Methods for Science and Engineering
- Model-Based Systems Engineering
- Product-Lifecycle Management
MISSION AREA:
- Acquis'n & Industrial Security
- Mitigating Insider Risk
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:
- Led the NIST Model-Based Enterprise program to answer how a manufacturer can match product needs to process capabilities to determine the best assets and ways to produce products; supporting U.S. industry’s competitiveness and addressing its need for interoperability and trust across decentralized systems. (2018-2019)
- Received the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal for exceptional leadership in developing the NIST Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed. As the first standards-based integration of real manufacturing systems, the SMS Test Bed provides foundational documents, open data, and technology demonstrations to the public. (2019)
- Leads the ARLIS Acquisition and Industrial Security core mission area, focusing research on supply-chain illumination and technology protection. (2020)
PAPERS:
- Hedberg Jr, T. D., Krima, S., & Camelio, J. A. (2016). Embedding X.509 Digital Certificates in Three-Dimensional Models for Authentication, Authorization, and Traceability of Product Data. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 17(1), 011008. doi:10.1115/1.4034131
- Hedberg Jr, T. D., Barnard Feeney, A., Helu, M. M., & Camelio, J. A. (2017). Towards a Lifecycle Information Framework and Technology in Manufacturing. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 17(2), 021010. doi:10.1115/1.4034132
- Hedberg Jr, T. D., Hartman, N. W., Rosche, P., & Fischer, K. (2017). Identified Research Directions for Using Manufacturing Knowledge Earlier in the Product Life Cycle. International Journal of Production Research, 55(3), 819-827. doi:10.1080/00207543.2016.1213453
- Hedberg Jr, T. D., Krima, S., & Camelio, J. A. (2019) Method for Enabling a Root of Trust in Support of Product-Data Certification and Traceability. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 19(4), 041003. doi:10.1115/1.4042839
- Hedberg Jr, T. D., Bajaj, M., & Camelio, J.A. (2020) Using Graphs to Link Data Across the Product Lifecycle for Enabling Smart Manufacturing Digital Threads. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 20(1), 011011. doi:10.1115/1.4044921