IMS Center Timeline

Established Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) with 6 initial company members: Intel, Ford, Johnson Controls, Rockwell Automation, United Technologies, USPS.

Established NSF I/UCRC for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) with 12 initial company members: API, Ford, Harley-Davidson, Intel, ITRI, Johnson Controls, OMRON, Rockwell Automation, Toyota, United Technologies, USPS and WE Energy

Developed First “toolbox approach” to Intelligent Maintenance Systems, dubbed the Watchdog Agent

Received Milwaukee Innovation Award from Mayor of Milwaukee to recognize the Center’s impact to city of Milwaukee

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee appointed Ohio Eminent Scholar in Advanced Manufacturing and L.W. Scot Alter Chair Professor; relocated the IMS Center to the University of Cincinnati; Renewed membership with Harley-Davidson, ITRI, United Technologies, OMRON, Toyota; and acquired many new members including: P&G, GE Aviation, Advantech, Komatsu, National Instruments, Toshiba, Nissan, etc

Watchdog Agent Trademark is awarded.

The IMS Center reaches 40 members. The Missouri University of Science & Technology is added as a research site.

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee receives Professor of the Quarter Award at the University of Cincinnati.

IMS contributed Bearing Dataset to NASA PHM Data Repository. This Dataset has exceeded over 23,000 downloads of February 2018. This data can be found here.

IMS Center Director Professor Lee receives Professor of the Year Award at the University of Cincinnati.

IMS Center researchers win 1st Prize in the 2008 PHM Society Data Challenge Competition.

IMS Center researchers win 1st Prize in the 2009 PHM Society Data Challenge Competition.

Since inception, the IMS Center has worked with 60 member companies and organizations.

IMS Center researchers win 1st Prize in the 2009 PHM Society Data Challenge Competition.

IMS Center hosted the Sixth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM). This event attracted over 200 total attendees from 20 countries.

IMS Center researchers won 1st Prize in the 2011 PHM Society Data Challenge Competition.

The IMS Center receives the National Instruments Prognostic Innovation Award based on its collaboration with member company HIWIN on ball screw health monitoring.

The IMS Center receives the National Instruments Prognostic Innovation Award based on its collaboration with member company HIWIN on ball screw health monitoring.

National Instruments conducts a commercialization trial for the IMS Center's Watchdog Agent.

The IMS Center is selected to recieve a National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) award for assessing the commercialization potential of the Watchdog Agent and the viability of developing a start-up in the PHM field, which would eventually become Predictronics.

The IMS Center was selected as most economically impactful I/UCRC in the NSF Economic Impact Study Report which found that the Center has delivered to its members a combined benefit of over $855 million in value, and that the Center returned $238 of benefits for every $1 invested by the National Science Foundation.

Since inception, the IMS Center has worked with 80 member companies and organizations from 15 countries.

The University of Texas at Austin joins the IMS Center as an I/UCRC university site under Site Director Dragan Djurdjanovic.

Formulation of Spin-off Company: Predictronics Corporation (Professor Lee, Co-founder). Predictronics specializes providing professional Prognostics and Health Management and Industrial AI solutions for many applications, including manufacturing, mining and energy. More information about Predictronics can be found here.

Professor Lee selected to serve on the Advisory Committee member for White House Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) American Challenge Initiative.

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee receives NSF Alex Schwarzkopf Technological Innovation Prize at the 2014 NSF I/UCRC Annual Meeting.

IMS Center researchers won 1st Prize in the 2014 PHM Society Data Challenge Competition.

Since inception, the IMS Center at the University of Cincinnati has worked with 70 member companies and organizations and reaches $4.2m in membership funds.

Proclamation issued by Mayor John Cranley making Cincinnati the first Industry 4.0 Demonstration City, led by IMS Center's efforts.

IMS Center Director Professor Lee receives MFPT (Machine Failure Prevention Technology) Society's Jack Frarey Award.

The IMS Center debuts and showcases its Mobile Health Monitoring Application, developed in partnership with Cosen Saws, at the 2014 IMTS Show.

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee serves on the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Standards and Technology funded MForesight Think Tank.

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers recognized IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee as one of the 30 visionaries in Smart Manufacturing.

The Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) awards IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee with the Medal of Excellence.

The IMS Center showcases its Ballscrew Mobile Health Monitoring Application, developed in collaboration with HIWIN Technologies Corp., at the 2016 IMTS Show.

IMS Center researchders win the PHM Society's annual Data Competition for the fifth time since 2008.

The IMS Center organizes the 12th IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS 2016), hosted by National Instruments in Austin, Texas. Over 150 attendees from more than 15 countries attended.

IMS Center holds Roundtable Panel on Next Generation PHM and Intelligent System Technologies at the PHM Society annual conference. Panelists in attendance include representatives from IBM, GE, NASA, Analatom and Predictronics.

Since inception, the IMS Center has worked with 100 member companies and organizations.

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee received the 2018 Ohio Faculty Council Technology Commercialization Award.

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee is recognized as a Fellow of the PHM Society.

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee receives the University of Cincinnati Faculty Entrepreneurship Award for his work in co-founding Predictronics and Cyber Insights.

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee established a World Economic Forum (WEF) Lighthouse Factory at Foxconn's Factory in Shenzhen, China.

IMS Center helps two member companies, Weichai and Baosteel, to be elected to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Lighthouse Network.

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee’s book, Industrial AI Applications with Sustainable Performance published by Springer in March, 2020 for U.S. Market.

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee is elected to the positon of Vice Chairman of Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision).

As of 2020, the IMS Center has hosted over 100 Visiting Scholars from numerous countries including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, China, Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, Norway, and Mexico, among others.

Since 2005, IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee has mentored 33 Ph.D. students and 21 Masters students.

IMS Center Director Professor Jay Lee publishes book titled Industrial AI Applications with Sustainable Performance. This book is currently available on Springer's website here