IMTI members are defining the future of manufacturing technology and manufacturing enterprises through R&D and strategic collaboration. IMTI's vision is to be the point of synergy for assisting U.S. manufacturing to achieve competitive excellence through manufacturing science and technology. We are dedicated to connecting, motivating, facilitating and enabling solutions to achieve the future success of manufacturing enterprises and the national manufacturing infrastructure.
IMTI is led by Richard Neal – Executive Director
Richard Neal has more than 30 years management experience in manufacturing technologies. Prior to founding IMTI, Mr. Neal worked for Lockheed Martin where he served as Project Manager for the Integrated Manufacturing Technology Roadmapping Project, as Principal Investigator for the Next Generation Manufacturing (NGM) Project, as Program Manager for the Technologies Enabling Agile Manufacturing (TEAM) Program, and as Manager of Information Systems Development for the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. Mr. Neal serves on Advisory Boards for academic institutions including the University of Tennessee , Georgia Tech University , and Pellissippi State Community College ,. He serves/has served on manufacturing committees including a National Research Council Study of the Totally Integrated Munitions Enterprise program for the U.S. Army, a Roundtable on Manufacturing in the U.S. and Canada, a visionary forum convened by the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing to seek consensus on manufacturing Grand Challenges, and several panels formed by the National Science and Technology Council. Mr. Neal has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee .
Executive Committee
Art Koehler, Procter and Gamble (Chairman of the Board)
Harvey Gray, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Vice Chairman)
Jack Harris, Rockwell Collins
Board of Advisors
Bruce Brailsford, National Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Bob Brown, Delmia
Mike Cronin, Cognition
Ken Currie, Tennessee Tech
Malcolm Green, Honeywell FM&T ( Kansas City Plant)
John Kohls, TechSolve
Bill McSpadden, Plant-Wide Research
Georges Salloum, IMTI, NRC Canada
Jim Snyder, BWXT Y-12
John Vickers, NASA