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Innovation Test Track Competition

February 1, 2019 By

SAC 2018 Innovation Test Track Award Ceremony
From left, John Evans, department chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering and director of the Thomas Walter Center for Technology Management at Auburn University, the 2018 Innovation Test Track (ITT) sponsor; Mike Stonecipher, organizer and emcee of 2018 ITT and automotive industry project manager for the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP) at Georgia Tech; Jack Sisk, 2017 ITT event lead and member of Auburn University’s Industrial and Systems Engineering team; Paul Noble, CEO of AUTIT and competition winner; and judges Jane (Karwoski) McCracken, interim director, Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech; Tim Yerdon, president, Plymouth Technology Advisors, LLC; Jimmy D’Emilio, procurement manager, Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia; Rusty Kruciak, 2nd Generation Capital, Nashville, and Jianan Sun, Innovation Hub Solution Architect at Mercedes-Benz USA.

The Innovation Test Track Competition is held each year during the Southern Automotive Conference and encourages companies with innovative products or services that could benefit the automotive industry to pitch their concept to a panel of judges who have a background in innovation. This year, GaMEP project manager, Mike Stonecipher, helped organize the event and served as emcee for the awards ceremony. Stonecipher said, “Each of the finalists are technology leaders and demonstrate the passion required to make transportation and manufacturing innovative, safer, and exciting.”

The winner of the event was AUTIT (now known as Verusen), an Atlanta-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to help manufacturers accurately predict inventory needs and avoid buying excess inventory.

Read the full article in Southern Automotive Alliance Magazine.

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