Jacob Rubinovitz (; September 6, 1947 – April 27, 2018) is an Israeli scientist. He was the head of the Laboratory for

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and

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(CIM) at the Technion.

Biography

Rubinovitz was born in Łódź, Poland, 6 September 1947. In 1957 he moved to Israel, in ''Aliath Gomulka'', in the movement of Jews from Poland to Israel which started in 1956, after the

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. He graduated from the Faculty of

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and Management at the Technion. From 1969 to 1973 he was a senior systems analyst at

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and senior systems analyst at

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(Israel). He managed the industrial software team (1973–1983) and initially worked at

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, installing in several countries the industrial software developed. Software called Mass was installed at Escom ( South Africa ) and used for maintenance of power plants. Jacob Rubinovitz as a child

In 1987, at the end of his doctoral studies at

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, he served a year as a visiting professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. In 1988, he returned to Israel and joined the Industrial Engineering & Management department at Technion. He created and led the Laboratory of Robotics and CIM at the Technion. Dr Hussein Naseraldin was his

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(currently he is a lecturer at the

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). While Rubinovitz was a faculty member of The Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, he had a joint activity with his teaching assistant in the field of

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. This activity resulted from the vision of promoting active learning among students of production and management. From 2003 to 2004 he taught industrial engineering at the

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. In 2005 he went on early retirement from the Technion due to illness. Rubinovitz published books and articles in his field. He was a member of the curriculum committee of Science and Technology Administration in the

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In March 2012 he was the guest of honor at the national conference of

Industrial Engineering and Management Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, an ...

- The 17th National Industrial Engineering And Management Conference. Rubinovitz married Nurit, and he is father of three (Ofer Sagi and Michal Slonim) and a grandfather of four (Yuval, Harel, Naveh and Ilai Slonim). Previously he lived in

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Writings

Books (or chapters in books)

*Shimon Y. Nof (editor), wrote Chapter 37 :

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and Graphic Simulators/Emulators of Robotic Systems
Handbook of Industrial Robotics
*Bidanda and Cleland (editors
The Automated Factory Handbook Technology and Management
*(In

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Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems: Introduction and content calculation, digital control
*(along with other scientists), including Z'eev Bone
Survey on the Penetration of Advanced Production Systems and Factory Automation into the Israeli Industry

Selected articles

Design and Balancing of Robotic Assembly LinesGenetic Algorithm for the Robotic Assembly Plan Problem

Task level off-line programming system for robotic arc welding – an overview. Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 7(4), 293–299. Off-line computer-aided path planning system for an arc-welding robot Heuristic algorithm for the generalized group technology problem

Analysis of Robot Motion Performance and Implications to Economy Principles A genetic algorithm for robotic assembly line balancing Genetic algorithm for linear and cyclic assignment problem
* ttp://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~bukchin/1.pdf RALB – A Heuristic Algorithm for Design and Balancing of Robotic Assembly Lines

References

External links

Davidson department of Industrial Engineering at Technion

Lab of Robotics and CIM at the Technion

Ezey M. Darel, in memoriam of a teacher and a friend.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rubinovitz, Jacob 1947 births Living people Polish emigrants to Israel Israeli industrial engineers Israeli roboticists Polish industrial engineers