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Jan de Nijs
LM Fellow

Jan de Nijs is the LM Fellow for Enterprise Digital Production and co-leader of the team within the Lockheed Martin Digital Transformation Program that has been chartered with unlocking the value of Digital Production. Jan is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. Jan leads the corporate effort for implementing industrial internet of things (IIoT) across Lockheed Martin. He is responsible for efforts on the full stack production solution, from floor level machinery connection, to high level AI and ML driven value propositions that increase value for our customers. Before joining Lockheed Martin, he spent the first 15 years of his career in leadership roles in the capital goods industry, designing and building automation solutions for the automotive, aerospace, and the food processing industries, working both in Europe and the United States. In 2004, he joined Lockheed Martin MFC in Orlando where he worked as a leader on many factory automation and production process improvement projects. In 2016, he moved to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth to become part of the F-35 Production team. Jan is the recipient of several awards including Lockheed Martin’s highest honor, the Excellence Award for designing and deploying the defense industry’s first Intelligent Factory Framework. Jan holds an MS degree as well as a Technical Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands. Jan serves as the LM voting member for the ANSI/MTConnect standards group, as well as various ISO efforts, such as ISO23247 “Digital Twin Framework”. He resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

Jan de Nijs is the LM Fellow for Enterprise Digital Production and co-leader of the team within the Lockheed Martin Digital Transformation Program that has been chartered with unlocking the value of Digital Production. Jan is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. Jan leads the corporate effort for implementing industrial internet of things (IIoT) across Lockheed Martin. He is responsible for efforts on the full stack production solution, from floor level machinery connection, to high level AI and ML driven value propositions that increase value for our customers. Before joining Lockheed Martin, he spent the first 15 years of his career in leadership roles in the capital goods industry, designing and building automation solutions for the automotive, aerospace, and the food processing industries, working both in Europe and the United States. In 2004, he joined Lockheed Martin MFC in Orlando where he worked as a leader on many factory automation and production process improvement projects. In 2016, he moved to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth to become part of the F-35 Production team. Jan is the recipient of several awards including Lockheed Martin’s highest honor, the Excellence Award for designing and deploying the defense industry’s first Intelligent Factory Framework. Jan holds an MS degree as well as a Technical Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands. Jan serves as the LM voting member for the ANSI/MTConnect standards group, as well as various ISO efforts, such as ISO23247 “Digital Twin Framework”. He resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Technology
By Jan de NijsApr 01, 2021

Standards-Based Manufacturing Digital Thread and Twins.

When it comes to digital twins and digital threads, there is no widespread agreement what they are and how the can be expressed in terms of data artifacts. This presentation proposes a standards-based definitions...

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