Dr. Daniel Schmid

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Research Area Leader: Digitalisation in Machines
• Co-Coordinator Platform Industry 4.0

Focus

Digitalisation in Machines, Digital Engineering

Teaching

• Project Module, Mechanical Engineering, MT.PM1
• Project Module 2, Mechanical Engineering, MT.PM2
• Smart Factory, Engineering and Management, WV.SF
• Economy for Engineers, WING
• MSE Digitalisation in Industry, TSM_DigInd
• CAS Operations Managment, Part Industry 4.0 & Smart Factory

Experience

• Senior Lecturer
  ZHAW
  10 / 2019 - 07 / 2025
• Senior Product Manager, Process Sensors
  Baumer Electric AG
  03 / 2017 - 09 / 2019
• Head of Technology, Feed and Biomass
  Buhler Group
  03 / 2014 - 02 / 2017
• GM Project Managment, GM Application Engineer, GM 35/40 Bore Engines, Expert Tribology
  Wärtsilä Switzerland
  06 / 2003 - 02 / 2014

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Ph D, Mechanical Engineering / Mechanical Engineering
  ETH Zurich
  03 / 2000 - 05 / 2003
• Dipl. Mech. Eng. ETH / Mechanical Engineering
  ETH Zurich
  10 / 1995 - 02 / 2000

Continuing Education

CAS Higher & Professional Education
ZHAW
07 / 2021

Network

Membership of networks

• Leader of the Expert Group Industry 4.0, SATW (Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences)
• Working Group 5.1, Global Product Development for the Whole Life-Cycle of the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing)
• Scientific Committee Member, PLM Conference, IFIP WG 5.1 (2025, 2024, 2023)
• Platform Industry 4.0, Co-Coordinator
• Platform Digital Mobility, Member

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0009-0001-8648-2869

Awards

• Winner Digital Twin Contest
  PLM Conference 2024, IFIP WG 5.1, Bangkok
  07 / 2024
• Swiss Technology Award (PowerPac Fuel Cell Power Generator)
  Swiss Technology Award
  02 / 2003
• Third Place REACH Umweltpreis
  Pro Aqua - pro Vita
  10 / 2002

Social media

• LinkedIn, own page
• LinkedIn, IPP (Institute of Product Development and Production Technologies
• CuriousIPP, YouTube

Projects

• Robot Process Automation for securing and expanding the market and increasing efficiency / Team member / ongoing
• Internet of Things # Amfora. A Swiss Digital Solution for Global Foodservice / Team member / ongoing
• Customizable Injection Molded Products and Services with Interconnected Production Planning / Team member / ongoing
• Biogas Plants For Small and Mid-size Farms / Co-project leader / completed
• 3D-Master for a Digitized Manufacturing Platform / Project leader / completed
• User Assistance Systems for Smart Commercial Buildings / Project leader / completed
• 3D-Master for "Realtime Manufacturing Services" / Project leader / completed

Publications

• Lack, Silvan; Klopfer, René; Schmid, Daniel,

  2025.

  Universal, bi-directional real time communication between real and digital twin in an MBSE environment[paper].

  In:

  Sureephong, Pradorn; Danjou, Christophe; Bouras, Abdelaziz, eds.,

  Product lifecycle management : integrating digital technologies for sustainability and innovation.

  21st IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 7-10 July 2024.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 208-221.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93319-6_16

• Sala Cordero, Sophia; Sullivan, Brendan; Schmid, Daniel,

  2025.

  Digital engineering ecosystem for the enhancement of traceability : industrial study[paper].

  In:

  Sureephong, Pradorn; Danjou, Christophe; Bouras, Abdelaziz, eds.,

  Product lifecycle management : leveraging AI, digital twins, and smart technologies.

  21st IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 7-10 July 2024.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 41-55.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93323-3_4

• Lack, Silvan; Hehenberger, Peter; Merschak, Simon; Picchio, Francesco; Schmid, Daniel,

  2025.

  Importance of PLM and digital thread to (dis)assemble circular products automatically[paper].

  In:

  22nd IFIP International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Sevilla, Spain, 7-9 July 2025.

• Schmid, Daniel; Merschak, Simon; Lack, Silvan; Hehenberger, Peter,

  2025.

  Towards a framework for automatic disassembly supporting circular economy[paper].

  In:

  35th CIRP Design Conference, Patras, Greece, 2-4 April 2025.

  Elsevier.

• Lanfant, Briac; Lack, Silvan; Meyer, Benjamin; Abdulkadir, Ahmed; Stadelmann, Thilo; Schmid, Daniel,

  2025.

  3D-master-based method for optimizing the cost calculation of PBF-LB/M manufactured parts[paper].

  In:

  Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference (MAMC), Aachen, Germany, 17-19 September 2024.

  Springer.

  pp. 158-171.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00501-025-01563-y

• Berger, Salome; Winterberg, Simon; Baumgartner, Corinna; Inauen, Jan; Staller, Justin; Schmid, Daniel,

  2024.

  Mycelium material substitutes conventional bicycle helmet material by adapted design for X processes[paper].

  In:

  FTAL Conference 2024 – Circular Economy, Lugano, Switzerland, 14-15 November 2024.

• Schranz, Franziska; Phimmasane, Vixay; Witzig, Andreas; Rüst, Andreas; Schmid, Daniel,

  2024.

  User assistance system for smart commercial buildings : use cases and proof of concept[paper].

  In:

  Srećković, Marijana; Kassem, Mohamad; Soman, Ranjith; Chassiakos, Athanasios, eds.,

  Proceedings of the 2024 European Conference on Computing in Construction.

  European Conference on Computing in Construction, Chania, Greece, 14-17 July 2024.

  European Council on Computing in Construction.

  pp. 674-681.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.35490/EC3.2024.190

• Schmid, Daniel,

  2024.

  Design and release process for additive manufacturing parts[paper].

  In:

  Danjou, Christophe; Harik, Ramy; Nyffenegger, Felix; Rivest, Louis; Bouras, Abdelaziz, eds.,

  Product Lifecycle Management. Leveraging Digital Twins, Circular Economy, and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Innovation.

  IFIP 20th International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Montréal, Canada, 9-12 July 2023.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62582-4_28

• Schmid, Daniel; Nyffenegger, Felix,

  2023.

  “Metro Map” illustrating the digitalisation in industry[paper].

  In:

  Noël, Frédéric; Nyffenegger, Felix; Rivest, Louis; Bouras, Abdelaziz, eds.,

  Product Lifecycle Management. PLM in Transition Times: The Place of Humans and Transformative Technologies.

  IFIP 19th International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Grenoble, France, 10-13 July 2022.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 294-303.

  IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ; 667.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25182-5_29

• Schmid, Daniel; Herrmann, Thomas,

  2024.

  Human-zentrierte und resilienzfördernde Digitalisierung.

  ZHAW Industrie 4.0.

  Available from: https://blog.zhaw.ch/industrie4null/2024/04/09/human-zentrierte-und-resilienzfoerdernde-digitalisierung/

• Lanfant, Briac; Lack, Silvan; Meyer, Benjamin; Abdulkadir, Ahmed; Stadelmann, Thilo; Schmid, Daniel,

  2024.

  3D-master-based method for optimizing the cost calculation of PBF-LB/M manufactured parts.

  In:

  Metal Additive Manufacturing Conference (MAMC), Aachen, Germany, 17-19 September 2024.

• Lack, Silvan; Klopfer, René; Schmid, Daniel,

  2024.

  Digitalis3D axes system.

  In:

  21th International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Bangkok, Thailand, 7-10 July 2024.

  Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIIjFo8CBDo

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Modular Stack-Internal Air Humidification Concept-Verification in a 1 kW Stack
• Development of a fuel cell stack for portable generators with different power ranges

Other publications

• People as a success factor in the digitalisation of industrial processes
• Digitalis3D Axes System, video as part of the submission for the Digital Twin Contest, PLM Conference 2024, Bangkok
• Technology Outlook 2023: SATW - Digital Twin
• Technology Outlook 2021: SATW - Digital Twin

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