Jorn is passionate about Advanced Digital Manufacturing (encompassing Industry 4.0 technology, Cyber Physical Systems CPS, Industrial Internet of Things IIoT, utilising latest developments in Cloud Manufacturing and Big Data Analytics) and in his research he aims to deliver new and exciting scientific insights as well as practical technological solutions that help industry and academia alike. Jorn's work around Design for Industry 4.0 and Digital Manufacturing aims to improve existing Manufacturing Systems to make them smarter, more autonomous and agile, cost efficient, better connected and well informed Through-Life. These efforts are supported by research into Additive Manufacturing, Data Analytics, Computational Intelligence and Visualisation and his  national and international projects aim at high value industrial applications with impact.