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215 Eng. Erik Muijsenberg Erik Muijsenberg is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of the University of Eindhoven from the Class of 1990. For the eight years following graduation, he was employed by the TNO Glass group in Eindhoven focusing his efforts in furnace modeling and glass melt technology. In 1997 he became the Glass Department leader. In 1998 he became a Glass Service B.V. Managing Director, first Glass Service subsidiary office in Maastricht, the Netherlands. After eleven years he moved to the Glass Service headquarters in the Czech Republic to become group Vice President. Glass Service employs over 100 engineers with offices worldwide including Czechia, Slovakia, Netherlands, Germany, UK, France, USA, Russia, China and Japan. In 1997 he was awarded, together with his former TNO colleagues, the Otto Schott Award. In 2012 he received the Adolf Dietzel Industry Award from the German Glass Society for his contribution to the development and acceptance of glass furnace modeling & optimization in the German glass industry. He was chosen as a Fellow member by the British Glass Society in 2014. Erik is also an active vice Chairman and past Chairmen of the Technical Committee 21, Furnace Design & Operations of the International Commission on Glass (ICG). As of 2016 Erik became an ICG Steering Committee member. In 2017 he became a Phoenix Award Committee member. Erik has been selected to become the next Vice Chair and future Chair of the Phoenix Award committee. Erik has actively promoted Industry 4.0 smarter model based furnace and forehearth control and CO 2 emission reductions to the Glass Industry for over twenty years.