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Melissa Orme (3255931)
Melissa Orme, PhD, Vice President, The Boeing Company, oversees all Additive Manufacturing activity across all three Boeing business units: Boeing Commercial Airplanes; Boeing Defense, Space and Security; and Boeing Global Services; including metal and polymer flight hardware, as well as low TRL and translational research that enables product development, and tooling and factory aids that increase factory efficiencies. Orme is also responsible for guiding the development of the digital thread across the Additive Manufacturing value chain, and the implementation of data driven models from extracted and archived data from the digital thread, utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence to drive efficiency, quality, and scale within the Additive Manufacturing end-to-end value stream. Other key responsibilities include the development of initiatives geared towards quantifying the positive sustainability trades associated with Additive Manufacturing.
Orme, an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, has a diverse professional background that spans academia, high-tech start-ups, and large corporations. On the academic front, she rose to the rank of Full Professor at the University of California, Irvine, where she developed an internationally renowned research program on net-form manufacturing, resulting in numerous peer reviewed journal articles and 15 U.S. patents. Later, she served as Chief Technology Officer of Morf3D, a qualified supplier of Additively Manufactured flight hardware to Boeing and other Aerospace and Defense companies. In 2019 she was recruited by The Boeing Company to lead Additive Manufacturing across the enterprise. Orme received her B.S. M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California. Melissa was inducted into The TCT Hall of Fame in 2024.
