TEAM MEMBERS

 

 

 

           

Juan Carlos Beitialarrangoitia (jcbeitialarrangoitia@ikerlan.es) is the Director of the Design and Production Process Unit at Ikerlan.

 

Jose Angel Lakunza (jalakunza@ikerlan.es) is the Design and Production Technologies area manager in the Design and Production Process Unit at Ikerlan. He has 25 years experience working within the areas of CAD/CAM, Design Technologies, Business Processes, etc. He has been involved several national and European research projects as well as industry transfer projects in the fields of CAD/CAM systems, product configurators, new product development and business process redesign. Currently he is involved in national research projects dealing with Product Models and Mass Customization.

Joseba Arana (jarana@ikerlan.es) is a principal investigator in the Design and Production Department at Ikerlan, where he has over 25 years experience working in and heading different departments within the areas of CAD/CAM and Design Technologies. Previously, he worked as an R&D Engineer in the design and construction industry after studying industrial engineering at the Engineering School in Bilbao. He is involved in, and manages, several national and European research projects as well as industry transfer projects within the areas of Product Configuration, Mass Customization, New Products Development and Knowledge Management.

Juan Carlos Astiazarán (jcastiazaran@ikerlan.es) is a principal investigator in the Design and Production Department at Ikerlan, where he has over 25 years experience working in different departments within the areas of CAD/CAM, Design Technologies and Business Process Engineering. He manages several industry transfer projects within the areas of Mass Customization, Business-Process in the e-Company (process-map redesign, R+D+i, capital goods…), Product Innovation (strategic innovation, product definition and development), Design Management (multidisciplinary teams management) and Knowledge Management (systems design and implementation).

Eduardo Saiz (esaiz@ikerlan.es) Industrial Engineering at the University of Bilbao. In addition, he holds the APICS certificate (1995). Since 1986 he has worked at Ikerlan as project manager first in the Production Systems department and today in the Design and Production Technologies Area. The areas of experience are Reengineering Business Process, Production Systems diagnostics, Planning Systems development, Industrial Layouts, Scheduling Systems for Production Planning and Analysis and Simulation of Production Systems. The keywords that define his current work are: Mass Customization, Mass Innovation, Supply Chain Management and Extended Enterprises.