Foivos Psarommatis received his Ph.D. in 2021 at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland on the topic of Zero Defect Manufacturing. He is a pioneer in the area of Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM), as he is the first who modernized and set the foundation of modern ZDM. His scientific interests, motivation, and vision are around Industry 4.0 and on how ZDM can be applied efficiently to production systems, focusing on the decision making, digital twins, and scheduling and design of a system or a product, with the ultimate goal of achieving true sustainable manufacturing. He is actively involved in EU research programs in the area of Factories of the Future and Enabling ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing. He is an active member on a CEN/CENELEC working group responsible for standardizing ZDM and is a member of IOF (Industrial Ontologies Foundry) where he is the chair of the ZDM working group.