Yefim Safris

is an independent consultant and founder of Alphaenco, delivering advanced engineering and automation solutions. He holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from St. Petersburg University. Safris began his career as a special machine tool engineer at Kurt Manufacturing and later worked as an automation engineer at Seagate Technology. He is an inventor on more than 20 U.S. patents. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Thomas currently works mainly as an independent developer and consultant with his company ZG Hypoid GmbH. After writing his doctoral thesis at FZG (Technical University of Munich), he worked for many years in industry as a gear expert specializing in bevel gears. He worked for MAN Truck & Bus, Klingelnberg and Voith. He has been a member of the ISO standardization working group for bevel gears (ISO /TC60 /SC2 /WG13) since it was founded more than 25 years ago and has headed this group as convenor since 2015.