Dragan Djurdjanovic, Ph.D.

Dragan Djurdjanovic, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan.

Djurdjanovic is lead researcher at the National Science Foundation co-sponsored Industry/University Collaborative Research Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems at the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He made key research contributions in the pursuit of methods and technical solutions for multisensor assessment and prediction of equipment performance. These solutions enable users to assess and predict performance of metal cutting or welding processes using multiple sensor readings from vibration sensors or force readings for example.

Djurdjanovic led the research in the area of proactive and cost effective maintenance decision-making based on the predictive condition information. Results of this research can be utilized to proactively schedule what maintenance task to perform on which machine in a way that is the least intrusive with the overall production or service process and therefore most cost-effective from the system point of view. Results of the work of Djurdjanovic and his students in this area are already being implemented to improve maintenance in General Motors using the on-line information about equipment condition and work-in-progress on the plant floor. Djurdjanovic is a member of ASME and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

ddjurdja@umich.edu