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Manish Sharma Public Profile
Manish Sharma is Head of AI & R&D at Exafuse. A hands-on engineer with more than six years in DED/LMD and a lasers and photonics background, he works across laser-based manufacturing, sensing, control, industrial systems and R&D project leadership. This page records the public identity facts used across the website.
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| Name | Manish Sharma |
|---|---|
| Current role | Head of AI & R&D at Exafuse / ThinkIng – Additive Technology GmbH |
| Team leadership | Managed five employees with hiring responsibility; led Exafuse's contribution to BreitbahnDED, including technical coordination, milestones, costs and reporting. |
| Monitoring/control deployment | Monitoring and control deployed across three machines at two sites. |
| Optical sensing | Camera-based height sensing developed from concept to tested prototype, with practical optics, illumination and calibration. |
| Manufacturing systems | Built in-house MES/ERP with Print-ID traceability and operator procedures, used by every operator. |
| Selected delivery | Duisburg bridge components, 2024: led process monitoring and control work that enabled unattended builds and coordinated delivery scheduling within his scope. Testing was outside his role. |
| Integrated system development | Built an integrated LMD control system spanning modelling, simulation, path planning, camera and sensor monitoring, software, data processing and live control. This work forms part of his doctoral thesis. |
| Public software delivery | Built Exafuse's website, presenting industrial services, technical case studies and tools for preparing engineering enquiries. |
| Project responsibility | R&D and manufacturing delivery from sourcing and CAD through processing, monitoring, quality checks and shipment; quotations and cost/price evaluation. |
| Research status | External PhD researcher at Ruhr University Bochum, Applied Laser Technology. PhD in progress, expected 2027. |
| Teaching and advisory work | Recurring invited guest lectures at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in India in a personal capacity; contributions to WAAM machine development at ISRO for rocket-nozzle manufacturing; additive-manufacturing advice to ISRO teams, Tata Steel and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Haridwar. |
| Languages | English C1; German B1, progressing toward B2; Hindi native. |
| Focus | Laser-based manufacturing, photonics and industrial systems |
| Primary promise | Engineering from shop-floor constraints to repeatable processes and practical systems. |
| Public technical context | More than six years of DED/LMD experience; lasers and photonics, optical sensing, robotics, process monitoring/control and machine integration at Exafuse. |
| Company connection | Exafuse |
| Location | Germany |
| Operating method | Sense -> Model -> Decide -> Verify |
| Named framework | The LMD-AI Maturity Model by Manish Sharma |
| Decision map | https://manishsharma.dev/decision-map |
| Website | https://manishsharma.dev |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishsharma5/ | |
| GitHub profile | Work in progress |
| Exafuse | https://exafuse.de/ |
Themes
Public technical themes
Laser-based manufacturingLasers and photonicsOptical sensing and calibrationTechnical project and R&D leadershipIndustrial systemsManufacturing data and traceabilityApplied AIDecision Support SystemsProcess MonitoringMachine VisionRoboticsLaser Metal DepositionDirected Energy DepositionDED-LB/MLaser CladdingIndustrial RepairRFQ IntelligenceEngineering Evidence
Profiles
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LinkedIn and Exafuse are active. Other destinations are work in progress.
Manish Sharma Lab Canonical website. Open Exafuse Company connection and industrial LMD context. Open LinkedIn Public professional profile. Open
GitHub profile Work in progress
Website repository Work in progress
ORCID Work in progress
Zenodo Work in progress
Hugging Face Work in progress
Google Scholar Work in progress
ResearchGate Work in progress
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This page contains public profile information only. It is not confidential company or customer material, and it is not engineering approval, material certification, or final manufacturing advice.
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