Professor
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
fplonka@eng.wayne.edu (313) 577-9665
Biographical Sketch
Recent Research & Development Experiences
Auto Body Consortium Optimization of Product Development: Near Zero Stamping Program. National Institute for Science and Technology, Advanced Technology Program.
Auto Body Consortium 2mm Program: Technology Transfer. National Institute for Science and Technology), Advanced Technology Program.
Dow Corning Continuous Flow Manufacturing.
GM Lordstown Assembly Plant: J. Car Variation Reduction Project.
EMMP - Ford Capstone/ Leadership Projects 1995, 1996, 1997.
F.E. Plonka, 1997. Developing a Lean and Agile Work Force.Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing , Vol. 7 pp 11-20.
F.E. Plonka, Fall/Winter 1991. Agile Manufacturing: An Industry-Led View to Revitalizing America’s Manufacturing Competitiveness.Wayne State University Exemplar.
F.E. Plonka, May 14, 1986. Factory Information Systems.Real Time Factory Control Clinic, sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the Computer Automated Systems Association of the SAME (CASA/SAME), Dearborn, Michigan.
F.E. Plonka with W. Hancock and P. Sathe, March 1979. A Procedure for the Design of the Process Control Systems for Multi-state Processes.SAE Paper 790390 -.
F.E. Plonka with V. Mikiel and W. Burrell, 1978. Productivity Improvement Handbook for State and Local Government, Part III, Section 10 and 12: Productivity and Financial Management.National Academy of Public Administration.
F.E. Plonka with W. Hancock, March 1977. The Development of Quality Information Systems in Automotive Assembly.SAE Paper 770414.
F. E. Plonka. The Roles in the Greenfield Paradigm. 1995 College Industry Education Conference, ASEE. January 1995.
F.E. Plonka et al. Competency Requirements in the Greenfield Paradigm: The Manufacturing Engineer of the 21st Century. Proceedings: 1994 Frontiers in Education Conference. ASEE. November 1994.
L.E. Hanifin, P.J. Eagle, F.E. Plonka. Greenfield: The Coalition for New Manufacturing Education. 1994 ASEE Conference Proceedings. 1994.
F. E. Plonka, Dan Vandenbossche of Chrysler, and Jim Utterback of MIT. An Approach to Quality and Cycle Time Improvement. Proceedings 1993 Annual Conference Institute of Industrial Engineers. May 1993.
F. E. Plonka. White paper on an Initiative for Cycle Time management. Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Agile Manufacturing. December 1992.
F. E. Plonka. White paper on Training the Current Work Force for Agile Manufacturing. Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Agile Manufacturing. December 1992.
F.E. Plonka, R.J. Piccirilli, Jr. and R.L. Stewart. Training Human Resources of Manufacturing in the Utilization of Computer-Based Methods for Improved Performance. Proceedings of the XXII FISTA 1988 Congress. Dearborn, Michigan, September 1988.
F.E. Plonka. Role of the Future of Factory Information Systems at Chrysler Motors. Proceedings of the Society of Manufacturing Engineer’s “Real Time Factory Control Seminar. Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 1987.
F.E. Plonka. Requirements for Manufacturing Work Cell Controllers. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Control Engineering Conference. Chicago, Illinois, May 19, 1987.
F.E. Plonka, E.J. Luszczynski. “Role of Programmable Controllers in Factory Information Systems”. Sixteenth Annual International Programmable Controller Conference and Exposition sponsored by the Engineering Society of Detroit and the Society for Machine Intelligence. Detroit, Michigan, April 8, 1987.
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