TECHNICAL PROFILE · KERN IoP
Dr.-Ing. Miguel Garzón
CTO of PM Tec Engineering and Technical Lead at KERN IoP. Engineer specialising in advanced manufacturing, process monitoring and industrial digitalisation, with practical experience in plastics processing and production data-acquisition systems.
Education and professional background
Miguel Garzón is co-founder and CTO of PM Tec Engineering and leads technical development at KERN IoP. He completed his doctorate in engineering at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL), RWTH Aachen University, studying discharge forces and vibration of high-aspect-ratio electrodes in die-sinking electrical discharge machining (EDM). His doctoral research combined instrumentation, synchronised signal acquisition, high-speed imaging and physics-based process analysis.
His professional background includes applied research and services for industry at CIPEM, Universidad de los Andes; industrial experience in maintenance, failure analysis and signal monitoring; teaching advanced and precision manufacturing processes; and technical writing for specialist manufacturing publications in Latin America.
At PM Tec Engineering, he leads solutions combining sensors, electronics, software and process expertise. This combination underpins the KERN IoP architecture: acquiring data at an appropriate resolution, retaining production context and providing information to investigate productivity, energy, quality, maintenance and traceability.
Reference sources: PM Tec Engineering y WZL, RWTH Aachen University.
Areas of expertise
- Industrial digitalisation and Industry 4.0
- Process monitoring and data acquisition
- Injection moulding and productivity
- Energy measurement and analysis
- Advanced and precision manufacturing
- Electrical discharge machining and non-conventional processes
- Metal additive manufacturing
- Failure analysis and industrial signal monitoring
Selected publications and research
BOOK / DOCTORAL THESIS · 2013
Analysis of Discharge Forces on Sinking EDM with High Aspect Ratio Electrodes
Doctoral research into discharge forces, electrode vibration and dimensional accuracy in die-sinking EDM. Apprimus Verlag, Aachen.
MATERIALS · 2018
Numerical-Experimental Study of the Consolidation Phenomenon in Selective Laser Melting
Research paper on thermo-fluid modelling and experimental validation in selective laser melting (SLM). The publication lists Miguel Garzón with PM-Tec Engineering S.A.S. as his affiliation.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS · 2018
Topology optimization applied to the design of cooling channels for plastic injection
Research on topology optimisation applied to cooling channel design for injection moulds.
Industrial digitalisation and recent technical contributions
His recent work focuses on the use of plant data to study energy consumption, process stability, OEE, traceability and production losses. At the 39th International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society, he presented KERN IoP developments related to energy-consumption optimisation in injection moulding.
- Industry 4.0 in Injection Molding, Plastics Engineering / SPE (2024): interview and reference to KERN IoP.
- Primer Seminario Internacional sobre Manufactura Aditiva, Metalmecánica (2022): participation as a speaker and coverage of his work in metal additive manufacturing.
- PPS39, Cartagena: presentation of KERN IoP Industry 4.0 tools applied to energy in injection moulding.
His editorial experience also includes leadership and contributions to Latin American industrial publications such as Metalmecánica Internacional y Reportero Industrial, experience that complements his work in transferring engineering knowledge to manufacturing professionals.
REFERENCES
Selected sources
Cordovilla, F., García-Beltrán, Á., Garzón, M., Muñoz, D. A., & Ocaña, J. L. (2018). Numerical-experimental study of the consolidation phenomenon in the selective laser melting process with a thermo-fluidic coupled model. Materials, 11(8), 1414. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11081414
Garzón Moreno, M. L. (2013). Analysis of discharge forces on sinking EDM with high aspect ratio electrodes. Apprimus Verlag.
Giordano, G. (2024, July 16). Industry 4.0 in injection molding. Plastics Engineering. https://www.plasticsengineering.org/2024/07/industry-4-0-in-injection-molding-005727/
Muñoz, D. A., Arango, J. P., González, C., Puerto, E., & Garzón, M. (2018). Topology optimization applied to the design of cooling channels for plastic injection. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1002, 012004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1002/1/012004
PM Tec Engineering. (2026). Nuestro equipo. https://www.pm-tec.co/nuestro-equipo
Manufacturing and engineering articles by Miguel Garzón
His editorial work covers EDM, machining, moulds, additive manufacturing, hybrid processes and automation. Explore the indexed articles, summaries and available original publication sources.