Professor John Mo has been an active researcher in manufacturing systems, enterprise modeling and industrial automation for over 35 years in RMIT and the CSIRO. Prior to joining RMIT, Professor Mo was a Team Leader in CSIRO, starting a research group that has grown to a size of 15 research scientists and engineering professionals. In his 11 years in CSIRO, he led many large-scale local and international research programs. Some of the most important projects are the national EPC network demonstrator, ANZAC ship alliance enterprise engineering analysis, global manufacturing and enterprise networks (GLOBEMEN), remote operations support diagnostics and maintenance system (ROSDAM), and so on.