Marc Hermans is a Digital Manufacturing and Simulation Architect with more than 20 years of experience in automotive production systems. His expertise spans industrial ramp-up of machining and assembly lines, advanced discrete-event simulation, and strategic decision support in serial manufacturing environments.

Alongside his industrial career, he is pursuing a PhD focused on transforming Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) from a monitoring KPI into a probabilistic decision instrument within executable Digital Twins. His research integrates synthetic degradation modeling, Bayesian Neural Networks, and uncertainty quantification to enable risk-aware maintenance strategies without heavy sensor dependency.

His work connects simulation, AI, and operational governance to evolve Digital Twins from visualization tools into structured decision architectures.