Charles McLean

Charles McLean is a computer scientist at NIST. He leads the Manufacturing Simulation and Modeling Group. He has managed research programs in manufacturing simulation, engineering tool integration, product data standards, and manufacturing automation at NIST since 1982. He has authored more than 50 technical papers on topics in these areas and has received two Department of Commerce Bronze Medals for his work. He serves on the Executive Board of the Winter Simulation Conference, the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Production, Planning, and Control, and is formerly the Vice Chairman of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group on Production Management Systems (WG 5.7).