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ZENON SA (Greece, technology provider)
is a company specialised in robotics and informatics. The Robotics Division delivers complete solutions and automation products to the industry, based on Robotics and Automation through PLC, motion control and computer control. Products and solutions are directed to a broad range of industrial sectors from metal constructions, furniture and home appliances to food and transportation. Applications include packaging, welding, assembly, painting, grinding, data collection, quality control through machine vision etc.

ZENON Robotics offers 'turn key' solutions and full technical support in all phases of the project; from system specification, to design, scheduling, manufacture, integration, installation, system validation, training and after sales support. ZENON Robotics technological leadership is evidenced by the numerous, non-trivial contracts delivered already, having as crown the internationally unique robotic grinding system, successfully used today by the European aircraft industry.

ZENON Informatics' mission is to provide its clients with state integrated and complete IT solutions, customised according to their individual needs. ZENON Informatics' proven success in achieving its mission can be attributed mainly to the customer approach and tackling of the individual needs, which finally ensures complete customer satisfaction. ZENON Informatics boasts expertise covering a wide range of development activities, including applications for e-Business / e-Commerce, workflow, document management, multimedia and RDBMS in 'traditional' as well as Internet / Intranet environments.

CV's of leading personnel

Costas Chrysagis: ?he Head of Research & Development Department in Zenon S.A. He received the Dipl.-Ing degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and the PhD degree in Control & Systems Engineering from the University of Florida in the USA. He also holds a post-graduate degree in Distance Learning & Communication from the Hellenic Open University. His research work involved Modeling, Dynamics & Simulation of Systems and Processes and Optimization in the face of Uncertainty. He has taught a range of courses that include Optimization, Digital & Adaptive Control, Dynamics of uncertain and Non-linear Systems, etc. at the University of Florida and more recently has taught undergraduate level courses for British Universities’ annexes in Athens.
Kostas Chrysagis is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Technical Chamber of Greece (OAA). He has also offered consultancy services collaborating with Technical Companies in techno-economic studies. During his employment in Monaco he was trained in Risk Management for large scale projects and Credit-risk for Financial Institutions.
Dr. Chrysagis has a large number of presentations and talks in International Conferences and meetings. He has 15 publications in international journals and conf. Proceedings. Large part of his research has been funded by the National Science foundation in the USA (received 2 awards for outstanding academic performance) and has extensive experience in managing basic and applied research projects

Ioannis Kotsiopoulos: Dr. I. Kotsiopoulos received the Dipl.-Ing degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1982) and the MSc and PhD degrees in Control Theory and Systems from the University of Manchester (1983) and the Imperial College (University of London, 1989) respectively. Since 1990 he has been working in Greece, both in industry as well as academia. Academic appointments included a visiting professorship at the Technical University of Crete (1992-1993) and the Supreme School for Technical Education (2000-2001). Between 1991 and 2001, he has offered consultancy services in the areas of automation and enterprise integration for the Viohalco Group of companies (metal processing). In parallel, he held a three-year appointment as an IT expert in the ministry of health and the ministry of the interior. Subsequently, he was employed by Attiko Metro S.A., the owner and operator of the new Athens metro railway lines 2 and 3, in the area of safety operations design (1996-1999). Since September 2001 he has been the manager of the Research and Development department of Zenon S.A. Dr. Kotsiopoulos is the author of 15 research publications in the areas of Control Theory and Enterprise Modelling and Integration. His current interests include Automatic Control, Business Process Modelling and Enterprise Integration

Alexandra P. Rapti: She received her Diploma degree in Applied Mathematics (1988) from Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki. In 1989 she received her M.Sc. degree in Software Engineering-Computer Science from School of Computer Science in University of Birmingham, UK. During 1990-93 she was employed by CTC Ltd in Athens as a Software Engineer participating in several ESPRIT and BRITE European R&D projects and gained experience in a variety of software development environments as well as software process modeling. She joined ZENON SA in 1993 were she has been involved in more than 15 industrial, European and national R&D projects (ESPRIT, BRITE/EURAM, RACE, TIDE, TMR, LEONARDO) having both technical and managerial roles.

Anastassios Stathopoulos: He received his degree in Mechanical Engineering (1993) from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). During his studies he worked as a research assistant in the Manufacturing Technologies Department for three years specialising in automation, measurement and data collection systems. September 1992 he started working for Zenon SA as part of the team that developed a robotic grinding cell for water taps polishing (Esprit 2640) including the development of an innovative servo-controlled grinding tool able to maintain constant force between the grinding belt and the specimen. September 1994 he completed a MSc degree in Automation and Robotics at Cranfield University (UK). Since then he works for Zenon SA participating in several industrial and research projects. He participated in the development of an innovative robotic cell for turbine blade grinding (Esprit 20912 - Amateur) introducing the concept of adaptive grinding. Since September 1997 he is head of the Industrial Automation Department of Zenon SA. responsible for several installations of robotics cells in Greece, including a complex (26 machines, 4 robots) automatic assembly line for ammunitions.

Karvelas Efstratios: Dr. Karvelas Efstratios is an experimental high-energy physicist, and is currently employed at the at the R&D department of ZENON S.A. He received the Diploma in Physics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1989 and Ph.D. in Physics from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1995. Dr Karvelas received a four and half year fellowship from the Nuclear Research Institute "N.C.S.R. DEMOKRITOS”, which funded his research. During this period, he became a member of the DELPHI research team at CERN which is composed of more than 500 nuclear physicists from 50 Universities, and Research Institutes around the world. He has developed algorithms in order to determine the efficiency of the RICH detector, and has developed and programmed simulation of the RICH detector in order to evaluate of the actual experimental data. He has knowledge in various computer operating systems and languages. During the period 1997-1999 he has worked on numerous R&D projects. He is the author or co-author of more than 110 scientific publications. His current interests include Automatic Control, image processing and machine vision.