Two researchers from WMG's Digital Lifecycle Management research group have won the Best Paper Award at the 2014 International Joint Conference on Mechanical, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing held in Toulouse, France (June 18-20, 2014).

The team won the award for the paper: Franciosa, P., Das, A., Ceglarek, D., Bolognese, L., Marine, C., Mistry, A., 2014, "Design Synthesis Methodology for Dimensional Management of Assembly Process with Compliant Non-Ideal Parts."

The conference is organized jointly by AIP - PRIMECA (Ateliers Inter-établissements de Productique - Pôles de Ressources Informatiques pour la MECAnique), France; ADM (Associazione Nazionale Disegno di Macchine), Italy; and INGEGRAF (Asociación Española de Ingeniería Gráfica) from Spain. A total of 95 papers were presented during the conference.

Dr. Pasquale Franciosa is a Senior Research Fellow within the Digital Lifecycle Management team, and Abhishek Das is a doctoral student supervised by Professor Darek Ceglarek. The paper is also co-authored along with colleagues from WMG's industrial partners: Charles Marine (STADCO), Luca Bolognese (COMAU) and Anil Mistry (Jaguar Land Rover).