Mário César Reis Bonifácio

Graduado em Engenharia Mecânica (ênfase em produção) pela Universidade Federal de Itajubá - MG. Mestre e Doutor pela Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica (Departamento de Engª de Fabricação) da Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Experiência profissional de mais de 20 anos liderando projetos para aumento dos níveis de qualidade e produtividade no segmento industrial utilizando as melhores práticas de fabricação, assim como avaliando e implementando iniciativas em mecanização e automação. Desde 2001 é professor titular e coordenador dos cursos de Eng. Mecânica e Eng. de Produção Mecânica da Universidade Paulista - UNIP. Atualmente gestor de inovação tecnológica do FIT (Flextronics Institute of Technology) em parceria com o cliente Motorola-Lenovo em Jaguariúna - SP e membro fundador do laboratório de Manufatura Avançada (automação e Indústria 4.0) denominado Brazilian Manufacturing Excellence Center (BMEC). Integrante do grupo SC4 (Collaborative Research Network on Supply Chain 4.0) da Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas da UNICAMP Limeira e da Sociedade Brasil-Alemanha de Engenheiros (VDI). Suas áreas de interesse são: indústria 4.0, robótica avançada, sistemas cyber físicos, simulação com gêmeos digitais, inovação e tecnologias emergentes.

Mário César Reis Bonifácio was born in Campinas-SP, Brazil in 1972. He received the diploma in Mechanical Engineer from Federal University at Itajubá, Brazil, in 1997. After research stays at UNICAMP, he gained a master degree and doctoral degree on ?World Class Manufacturing ? Brazilian Automotive Industry Sector? from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, State University of Campinas, Brazil, in 2004. After finishing his academic studies in mechanical engineering, he started his professional career first as a product engineer at the Flex. In 2014, he joined in the Flextronics Institute of Technology, where is currently a senior researcher and team leader industry 4.0 group and the founding member of Brazilian Manufacturing Excellence Member (lab for emergent technologies) with outstanding achievements in the field of advanced manufacturing. Since 2001, he is titular and coordinator professor in mechanical engineering with Institute of Exact and Technological Sciences, Paulista University, Brazil. Dr. Mário César Reis Bonifácio is a senior member and consultant of numerous committees and commissions, including VDI Brazil (Germany-Brazil Engineer Association), SC4 (Collaborative Research Network on Supply Chain 4.0. He is also an invited researcher in the Production Graduate Program at the State University of Campinas (School of Applied Sciences ? Limeira, Brazil). His professional activities areas are inter alia distributed robotics and automation, digitalisation, simulation and optimization ? cyber physical production system, artificial intelligence, openness to innovation and future research.