Chris Krampitz has more than 25 years of experience developing and commercializing new manufacturing technologies. He currently provides strategy, engineering and supply chain management support to accelerate manufacturers' readiness for deploying emergent technologies, including manufacturing processes and materials, sensors and automation, and digitization of the manufacturing environment. He supports manufacturing companies in developing and executing business strategies and models that harness these new manufacturing technologies and in achieving production readiness quickly to meet regulations, standards, and specifications.

 

Chris served in leadership roles in strategy, R&D, engineering, and supply chain for Fortune's Global 500 companies, leading consulting firms, and government agencies. He has led the development and commercialization of new technology for industry leaders in oil and gas, natural resources/agriculture, pharmaceutical/chemicals, biotechnology, medical devices, electrical/electronics, consumer goods, and transportation equipment. He is a frequent speaker on advanced manufacturing technologies and author of over 40 publications.

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Chris is an active member of several emergent manufacturing technology organizations, including America Makes, the Advance Regenerative Manufacturing Institute, the National Society of Professional Engineers, ASTM F42 Committee on Additive Manufacturing, the Institute for Advanced Composite Manufacturing, the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute, the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Institute, the Digital Manufacturing Design and Innovation Institute, the Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment Institute, and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.

      

Chris earned an MBA in strategic management and asset pricing from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He performed research on the mechanisms by which emerging information on new technologies is incorporated into asset prices in financial markets.

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Chris also earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University. He conducted research for the U.S. Department of Energy & Department of Defense on advanced materials and processes to purify weapons-grade plutonium for civilian nuclear fuel.

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Chris is a licensed and registered professional engineer in the state of Minnesota, Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, and Oregon. He also holds the Chartered Engineer (CEng.) distinction in the United Kingdom and the European Engineer (Eur. Ing.) distinction in the European Union.