ACADZ EXECUTIVES

Donald W. Collins, CEO & Director of R & D

Donald W. Collins is the CEO, Director of R & D and founder of ACADZ, Inc. and the inventor of Minimum Inventory Variability Scheduling and Release Policy® (MIVP® - US Patent approved November 2004). The cycle time for a process and its work-in-process (WIP) inventory are linked, so that improvements in the efficiency of a process can be measured by either cycle time or inventory. The MIVP® policies eliminate the instantaneous inventory build-ups that develop when there is any unplanned interruption in a manufacturing process. At ACADZ he also has developed hardware for inventory tracking and an Icon based simulation software for modeling complex manufacturing systems such as electronics and semiconductor multiple product factories. During his career in manufacturing and simulation he has worked with and/or consulted to ASYST Technologies, CA, Amkor Corporation, AZ, Advanced Micro Devices, TX, Boeing Corporation, AZ Broad Reach Engineering, AZ, Canon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, C.I. Kasei, Japan, Canadian Pacific Consulting Services, CN, Fuji Film, Kanagawa, Japan, General Dynamics, AZ, Hitachi Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, Honeywell Corporation, AZ, Indidge Systems, AZ, Infineon Semiconductor, Germany, Innovative Swab Technologies, IL, Intrabay Automation, Inc., CA, Intel Corporation, AZ, Kyocera Semiconductor Corporation, Japan, Lansdale Semiconductor, Inc., AZ, Lucent Technology, FL, MarkHot, Inc., CN, Montreal Calendar Magazine, CN, Motorola Corporation, AZ, NASA, VA, NEC Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan, NPC Electronics Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, Japan, Primarion Semiconductor, AZ, Sanyo Semiconductor Corporation, Japan, Seiko Epson, Japan, SEMATECH, TX, Toshiba Corporation, Yokohama, Japan, St-Microelectronics, AZ, and White Electronics Corporation, AZ.

He has served since 1999 and continues to serve on the program committee of the International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing (ISSM) which meets in San Jose, CA on odd years and Japan on even years. He organized the ISSM Work Shop on Semiconductor Manufacturing Simulation in 2003 in San Jose.

He is also a Professor Emeritus of Engineering Technology in the Department of Manufacturing and Aeronautical Engineering Technology at Arizona State University East Campus, Mesa, AZ. He served as Department Chair from 1989-95 and as Senior Professor until May 2004. He was an active member in Systems Science and Engineering Research Center at ASU Main Campus. His research interests are in manufacturing simulation, scheduling, modeling, and computer graphics. To date he has published over 40 papers on the subject of manufacturing simulation. Professor Collins received his Ph.D. and MS degrees from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 1980 and 1975 respectively. He began his real world simulation experience with NASA, simulating the deployment of satellites from the Space Shuttle. He also has a B. Arch. Degree from Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 1966. He is a member of AeA, ACM, ASEE, IEEE, Pi Epsilon Tau, SIGGRAPH, and SME.

Wen-Wei (David) Lee, Manufacturing Engineering Manager

David Lee has over 10 years experience in manufacturing engineering,

specializing in program management, process optimization and setup

of new production processes. His work for ACADZ focuses on

manufacturing process optimization and sales support in Taiwan and

China.

David has a Master of Science Degree, Mechanical & Manufacturing

Engineering Technology Education, Arizona State University East, a

Master of Science Degree, Manufacturing Engineering, Northwestern University,

Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering Technology from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Quality Control, Society of Automotive Engineering and the Society of Manufacturing Engineering.     

His work experience includes Vehicle Program Leader (Inner body assembly) LIOHO MACHINE WORKS LTD, Chung-Li, Taiwan, Nov. 2002 – June 2004, Manufacturing Engineer, DANA Corporation Spicer Axle Division, Syracuse, Indiana Feb. 1996 – Sep. 1999, Process Engineer, Guardian Industries Corporation, Ligonier, May 1995 - Aug. 1995, and Technician, China Precision Die Casting Company, Chung-Li, Taiwan, R.O.C. Aug. 1988 - Sept. 1990.

David has received the following awards and honors: Dean's List in 1992, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities in 1995, Windshield Optical Distortion Improvement Award from Guardian Industries Corp., 1994, Total Quality Management Award from DANA Corp. Spicer Axle Div., 1997, Shipping Rack Patent issued on Nov. 2 1999, US PATENT No. 5,975,314 and Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society 2001.

Naren Koka, Senior Software Systems Engineer

Naren Koka has 10 years experience in system architecture,

analysis and development of manufacturing systems. His

experience includes industrial automation, manufacturing control

systems, semiconductor automation and internet systems. He has

successfully developed large scale distributed systems for

manufacturing and information systems. He is the lead developer

under of the Q-Efficient® device software. He has a Master of

Science in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University

and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from

JNTU Hyderabad, India. He has worked for Intel Corporation,

Bell & Howell, AG Communication

Systems and Developoline.

He has successfully developed and taught corporate training classes on Enterprise Java Beans and Java technologies. His interests are Simulation of Manufacturing Control and Communication Systems, Real-time Control systems and e-Manufacturing.