Boaz Eidelberg

Boaz Eidelberg, Ph.D. (Hebrew: בעז אידלברג) (born March 16, 1944) is an inventor of multiple patents in robotics and high performance positioning systems, including their mechatronics system analysis tools for design optimization. His inventions and analysis tools were used for business development and project management in Rafael Advanced Defense Systems (RDC), Rockwell Automation, Parker Hannifin and Festo, providing automation solutions to companies such as Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Applied Materials, Coca Cola and GM. He promoted Anorad (now Rockwell) brushless linear motor technology, invented by Anwar Chitayat, in the USA, Europe and Asia including Rockwell Automation, Siemens and FANUC. Today brushless linear motor technology is being used in high performance automation process equipment including Semiconductors, machine tools, Metrology, drug discovery and General Automation industries. Eidelberg created and taught in-class and distance learning courses in robotics and automation related technologies at Michigan State University, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Farmingdale State College and Stony Brook University.
Early life.
Boaz was born on March 16, 1944 to Joseph and Zipora Eidelberg, in Mandatory Palestine (now Israel). In 1962 he graduated from class 8 (Hebrew: מחזור חי) of the Haifa military academy (Hebrew: פנימיה צבאית, חיפה) near the Hebrew Reali School. His Tinnitus injury classified him as a disabled veteran (Hebrew: נכה צהיל) of the Israeli Defense Forces(IDF). He served as a topography instructor in a communication Base. Four of his classmates became Generals in the IDF, including (ret.) Lieutenant General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, who served as the Chief of the General Staff (Israel). Financed by his father he went to the USA in 1965 to study engineering.
Academic education.
In 1970 he received at Michigan State University an M.Sc. degree in Machine Design and Metallurgy, financed by his work as a teaching assistant. 
In 1982 he attended a one-year Business Administration course for Rafael managers at the University of Haifa.
Professional career.
Israel.
In 1975 Eidelberg joined Rafael Advanced Defense Systems working as a systems analyst for 17 years. A system analysis project for which he was awarded “A' Research" (Hebrew: אי מחקר), was solving one of the more challenging problems in the development of Python (missile) 3. Simulating the optimal time delay of the proximity sensor from target detection to warhead explosion. The statistical angle of approach, of missile to target, was based on fighter pilots estimates and the model was qualified with real aircraft testing. The missile saw action in Operation Mole Cricket 19. In 1980 Eidelberg took a sabbatical leave from Rafael, working at MSU as a visiting professor, after which he became the head of operation research group of Aeromechanics Division, headed by Dr. Reuven Eshel (Hebrew: דר׳ ראובן אשל).
In 1982 he joined Galram (now RDC - Rafael Development Corporation), led by Dr. Zvi Meiri (Hebrew: צבי מאירי), as the civil spinoff of Rafael technologies for commercial applications. In Galram he was the first employee of Robotiq, where he patented, an aerodynamic robot end effector for spreading fabric layers in garment industry automation. He then founded and managed at RDC its Manex division (Manufacturing Experts), where he initiated joint product development between Rafael and local manufacturers, such as Plasson and Dolav. He also initiated a joint venture between Keter Plastic, the largest plastic company in Israel at that time, and Rafael for developing Electromechanics plastic devices. The project spun off in 1988 by Manex employees, as a separate operation in Karmiel. In 1992 he retired as a pensioner of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. 
United States.
In 1990, during his last Sabbatical leave from Rafael, Eidelberg joined Anorad Corporation, the largest linear motor manufacturer at that time, where he worked as the Director of Linear Motor Business development. His job was to promote Linear Motors and their control technology, which was relatively new at the time, to the industrial community around the world. He worked with Siemens in providing Boeing a linear motor solution for a Chemical milling process of aircraft wings with their Computer Numerical Control (aka CNC). His most significant achievements at Anorad were linear motor technology transfer to FANUC, one of the world’s largest CNC manufacturers, and the initiation of Anorad acquisition by Rockwell Automation. As a result of the technology transfer, FANUC created a linear motor product line which is typically sold as a complete solution with CNC and servo drives. The acquisition of Anorad by Rockwell Automation helped Rockwell compete with FANUC and Siemens in providing machine tool manufacturers a complete linear motor solution. 
In 1999 Eidelberg started his own company Botec developing and selling system analysis tools, BIMO, and using them to promote Nanomotion (later acquired by Johnson Electric), and Netzer Precision (later acquired by Sick AG), business development in the USA. In 2001 his company was acquired by Bayside Motion Group (BMG), with a 3 year employment agreement as a Vice President Business Development. [rel' pub' 2] At Bayside Eidelberg managed the development of high performance positioning systems for Semiconductor industries, such as wafer fabrication for Applied Materials, the World's largest semiconductor company at the time. One machine was high precision, high velocity laser scribing of solar panels, which served as a key for Applied Materials, $1B, Sun Fab strategy. The machine, size 6 x 3 x 2 m, was patented by Eidelberg for large virtual rotations of incoming glass panels. The resulting activity was one reason, which drove Parker Hannifin to acquire BMG. In 2004, Eidelberg founded his second Company Optinet Inc. He continued providing consulting services to Parker, as a project manager of complex automation systems. In one of his projects he patented a robot for Goodyear's wire filament winding process in next generation tire manufacturing.
In 2012 Eidelberg was hired by Festo as the head of NAFTA Competence Center. At Festo he helped developing high performance custom solutions for manufacturing processes in US, Canada and Mexico. Two of his patents where initiated by Coca Cola and General Motors. For Coca Cola, and other food and beverage and laboratory automation companies, Eidelberg patented a variable pitch gripper for robots, which allows bottle handling of various sizes, reducing time loss during an end of arm tool change. For General Motors, and other automotive manufacturers, Eidelberg invented an ”all in one” Robotic gripper, using a single standard positioning stage, which could be assembled in hundreds of XYZ configurations and grip multiple body parts without losing time for gripper changes. The invention attracted the interest of BMW, which led Festo Esslingen file the patent with Cooperative Patent Classification and International Patent Classification. 
In 2017 Eidelberg resumed Optinet consulting activities and academic career. He developed free online lectures and system analysis tools to introduce viewers to high performance positioning systems, and wrote articles to scientific journals.
Academic career.
Eidelberg started his teaching activities as a teaching assistant, from 1968 to 1973, during his graduate studies in MSU and Cornell University. During his Sabbatical leave from Rafael in 1980, Eidelberg worked in MSU as a Visiting Professor, teaching undergraduate Robotics Design course and advanced Kinematics course to graduate students. In 1983 he initiated a similar ME design course to senior students at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Prof' Beni Landkof (Hebrew: בנימין לנדקוף) at Rafael, developing, manufacturing and marketing an automated Hospital Bed for injured military personnel. From 2017-2019 Eidelberg developed and taught distance learning courses in Robotics, Finite Element Methods and Manufacturing Technology at Farmingdale State College. In 2019 he developed and taught at Stony Brook University a distance learning graduate course in Mechatronics with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning features. For these courses he developed over 100 online tutorials and lectures. 
Personal life.
Boaz was born in 1944 to Joseph and Zipora Eidelberg. His father was a military officer, plant manager and a Biblical history researcher of The Exodus and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. His mother Zipora Eidelberg (Zitrin) was a math teacher and a Principal of Elementary Schools. Boaz married Ruth Sharfstein in 1975. They divorced in 2002. Their daughter Yael completed law and business schools. Their son Tal is a computer science entrepreneur. Boaz remarried to Sharyn Blau in 2004. Eidelberg holds a private pilot license. His flying hobby since 1970 encountered an emergency landing in 2013 and ended in 2017.
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