Faculty & Staff Profiles

Andy Pandian

Annamalai Pandian

Engineering and Technology

Office: 301 Fryklund Hall
Phone: 715/232-1179
Email: pandiana@uwstout.edu

Education

  • D. Eng. in Manufacturing Systems

 Professional Experience

  • Automotive Experience

  • Mechanical Engineering Design

  • Lean Manufacturing Process Analysis/Benchmarking

  • Project Management

  • Automation

  • Product Launch

  • Systems Engineering

  • Composite materials

  • Quality- Six Sigma & Green Belt

  • Continuous Improvement

  • ISO 9001; QS 9000; ISO 14001; TS 16949

Research Interests

  • Machine Failure Prediction Methodology

  • ARMA

  • Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)

  • Robotics

  • Composite Materials

  • Simulation

 Companies Worked For

Courses Taught

  • MFGE - 351 Manufacturing Process Engineering

  • MFGE - 441 Jigs, Fixtures and Tooling Design

  • MFGE - 440 Manufacturing Systems Design & Simulation

  • MFGE - 771 Emerging Manufacturing Materials

  • MECH - 293 Engineering Mechanics

  • MFGT - 405 Industrial Robotics

  • MFGE - 640  Design & Simulation of manufacturing systems

  • MFGE - 415 Machine Vision and Robotics

  • MFGE - 707 Field Project Formulation

  • MFGE - 735 Field Problem in Manufacturing Engineering

Professional Organizations

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

Selected Publications

    1. Pandian, A. and Ali, A. (2011). Automotive Robotic Body Shop Simulation for Performance Improvement Using Plant Feedback.  International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, InterScience Enterprises, Ltd. Vol.7, No.3, pp. 269-291.

    2. Pandian, A. and Ali, A. (2010).  A Review of Recent Trends in Machine Prognosis and Diagnosis. International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications. Vol.2, pp. 321-329.

    3. Pandian, A. and Ali, A. (2009).  A Review of Recent Trends in Machine Prognosis and Diagnosis. World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing, Coimbatore, India, Dec. 9-11, pp. 1731-1736.

    4. Ali, A., Beebe, R, and Pandian, A.  (2009). Simulation of fuel tank assembly and process analysis for performance improvement.  2009 Winter Simulation Conference, Austin, TX, Dec. 13-16, pp. 2154-2163.

    5. Pang, S., Pandian, A. and Bradshaw, R.D. (1992). Modified Tsai-Wu Failure for Fiber-Reinforced Composite Laminates. Polymer Composites. 13 (4), pp. 273-277. Published on line 30 August 2004.

    6. Pang, Su-Seng.  Roger D. Bradshaw. Pandian, Annamalai (1991). Modified expression of the Tsai-Wu failure criterion for fiber-reinforced composite laminates. Conference Winter Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, December 01 - 06, 1991,    v 29, pp. 243-257, 1991.

    7. S.S. Pang and A. Pandian (1989). Strength Analysis of Glass Fiber Reinforced Material under Longitudinal Loading. Composites Symposium of the AIChE 2nd Topical Conference on Emerging Technologies in Materials. San Francisco, California, November 6-9, 1989; pp. 319-320