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Dr. Georges Abdul-Nour is Professor of Industrial Engineering and Head of the Engineering School, at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. He received his B.A.SC. and his M.A.SC in IE from Moncton University in Canada, and his Ph.D. in IE from Texas Tech University. He is involved in the updating process of IE terminology for IIE and ANSI, for the Quality assurance and Reliability section. He is on the editorial board of IJPR. Dr Abdul-Nour research interest include Quality, Reliability, and Risk Management, Maintenance, Lean Manufacturing, JIT and Production Planning and Control. He a senior member of IIE, member of ASQ, Academy of Sciences of New York. He is a registered P.E. in Québec. Dr Abdul-Nour is Co-Chair of Bombardier Sea-Doo/Ski-Doo Research Chair (99–2003) and Bell Chair (2003–2008) in SMEs Technological Change Management. He authored and co-authored more than 100 papers and technical reports, and three books.
Dr. M. Selim Akturk is Professor of Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University, Turkey. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, U.S.A., and B.S.I.E. and M.S.I.E. from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. His current research interests include hierarchical planning of large scale systems, cellular manufacturing systems, advanced manufacturing technologies, and production scheduling. His articles have appeared in Computers in Industry, Computers & Operations Research, Discrete Applied Mathematics, European Journal of Operational Research, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Naval Research Logistics, and Production Planning & Control. Dr. Akturk is a senior member of IIE and member of INFORMS.
Bernard Cyr is Director of Operations at Simpler Networks. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Université du Québec a Trois-Rivières and his MBA from University of Sherbrooke. He is a registered P.E. in Quebec.
Jocelyn R. Drolet, Ph.D. is a Professor in Industrial Engineering at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières since 1989. He has been chief (91–94) and chair (97–99) of the IE department and director of the Centre de veille des équipements de transport (97–2006). He was a principal researcher for the Bombardier Sea-Doo/Ski-Doo Chair in SMEs Technological Change Management (93–2003). He is currently interested in the areas of integrated manufacturing systems such as ERP, in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, and in JIT. He has authored more than 100 articles. He received his B.Eng. from the University of Québec, his M.S.I.E. and Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Heng Huang received the B.S. degree in industrial automation and the M.S. degree in systems engineering from Tianjin University, China in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in industrial and systems engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, in 2003.
He is currently the Manager of Fundamental and Quantitative Analysis at Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, AR. He has performed research and development in the areas of combinatorial optimization, advanced methods for group technology, lean manufacturing and six sigma, production flow analysis, and design of hybrid facility layouts since 1997. His current areas of interest include fundamental analysis, commodity trading and risk management, quantitative finance, hedge optimization and portfolio modeling.
Dr. Shahrukh A. Irani is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering at Ohio State University. His areas of research and teaching interest are Cellular Manufacturing, Facility Layout, Group Technology, Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, Lean Manufacturing, and Production Control. Current research projects address the design of hybrid cellular layouts, software for Production Flow Analysis and the integration of pattern recognition algorithms with hyper-graph theory for design of facility layouts. He has published in the International Journal of Production Research, IIE Transactions, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and ASME Journal of Engineering for Industry. As Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Interest Group (AMIG), he is actively involved in efforts to incorporate industry experience across the curriculum. He has also worked in industry on a Faculty Internship that was partially supported by Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) program of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Irani is the Editor of the Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems published in 1999 by John Wiley. He is a member of SME, IIE, and INFORMS and is a frequent speaker or Session Chair at their conferences. His industry outreach activities include an industry workshop on Cellular Manufacturing Systems which has been sponsored by the Higher Education Manufacturing Productivity Applications Consortium, Minnesota Consortium for Defense Conversion and the General Motors Technical Education Program. In 1996, Dr. Irani was voted Young Engineer of the Year by the Minnesota Federation of Engineering Societies and the Minneapolis Chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He served as the Director of the Facilities Planning and Design (FAPAD) division of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for 1999–2001 and was re-elected for 2001–2003.
Serge Lambert is Professor of Industrial Engineering at Université du Québec a Trois-Rivières. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres and his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (2005). His research interests include system optimization, simulation and reverse logistics. He is a registered P.E. in Quebec.
Gert Nomden is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Management & Organization of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering & Management Science from the same university. His current work focuses on the development and performance assessment of Virtual Cellular Manufacturing for different manufacturing layout configurations. His research interests are in the areas of Shop Floor Control, the application of Group Technology principles in Production Planning and Control, and (Virtual) Cellular Manufacturing.
Dr. Ir. Jannes Slomp is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management and Organization at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University in Twente, the Netherlands. His research interests are in cellular manufacturing, flexible manufacturing systems, and modular product development. He is involved in several industrial projects concerning the implementation of flexible manufacturing systems and the transition of manufacturing departments from a functional to a cellular layout, and vice versa. His papers have been published in many international journals, in addition to Dutch journals, and numerous conference proceedings.
Nallan C. Suresh is Professor & Chairman of the Department of Operations Management & Strategy at the School of Management, State University of New York, Buffalo. He has published widely in journals such as Management Science, IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Production and Inventory Management, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Operations Management Review, and SME Technical Papers. He is a recipient of Sustained Achievement Exceptional Scholar Award at SUNY, Buffalo in 2003, Alfred Bodine/Society of Manufacturing Engineers Award for Studies in Machine Tool Economics, Joseph T.J. Stewart Faculty Scholarship, and other research awards. He serves as Associate Editor for International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Editorial Advisory Board member for Journal of Operations Management. He is also a Visiting Professor at University of Groningen in Netherlands.
H. Muge Yayla is a PhD candidate in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA. She has a B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. Her current research interests include product variety, manufacturing flexibility, and pricing and demand management. She is a student member of INFORMS and POMS.
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Abdul-Nour, G., Akturk, M.S., Cyr, B. et al. Contributing Authors. Int J Flex Manuf Syst 17, 169–171 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10696-006-8126-x
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