Rakesh Kumar Phanden & K. Mathiyazhagan 
Advances in Industrial and Production Engineering [PDF ebook] 
Select Proceedings of FLAME 2020

An explorative analysis of Io T applications in Cold Chain Logistics.- Improvements in Production Line using Pro Model© Simulation Software: A Case Study of Beer Beverage Company in India.- Analyzing the critical success factors for industrial symbiosis – A Chinese perspective.- Implementation of Industry 4.0 Practices in Indian Organization: A Case Study.- Analytical and decision modelling approaches in Circular Economy: A Review.- Analyzing the production of the plastic manufacturing through fuzzy analytic hierarchy process.- Probabilistic and Fuzzy Models for Risk Analysis of Processing and Manufacturing System.- Analyzing the influence of Leagile manufacturing tools in Peru context.- Analyzing the Cause Effect Relationship among Deming’s Quality Principles to Improve TQM using DEMATEL.- Security in Manufacturing Systems in the Age of Industry 4.0: Pitfalls and Possibilities. 

Rakesh Kumar Phanden completed his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from the U.P. Technical University, Lucknow, India and post-graduation in Integrated Product Design and Manufacturing from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, G.J.U. of Science and Technology, Hisar, India. He completed his Ph D in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India in 2013. He is post doctorate from Cranfield University UK. He is currently working in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has 18 years of teaching experience at private and government institutes and universities. He has contributed more than 45 papers at the national/international levels. He has published and edited a book on “
Integration of Process Planning and Scheduling: Approaches and Algorithms” in CRC Press and worked as a Guest Editor of a “
Special Issue on Advancements in Modern Machining Methods” in International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials). He is serving as an editorial board member for many international journals. He is an active reviewer in many international journals of repute. His current areas of interest include flexible manufacturing systems, production scheduling, integration of process planning and scheduling, product design and manufacturing, digital twin and threads, nature inspired algorithms, discrete simulation.

Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amity University, Noida, UP, India. He is an associate editor of Environment, Development and Sustainability – Springer with impact factor of 2.1 and editing special issues in International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (Emerald, IF: 4.7, ABDC: A), International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM, IF: 3.3, ABDC: A) & Sustainability journals. His publications are in IJPE, IJPR, PPC, IEEE TEM, JCP, RCR, IJAMT etc. Also, he is editorial member in more than 5 international journals. Recently one of his paper awarded as Excellence Citation Award by Emerald Publisher Ltd.  Presently he is editing two books in Elsevier and one in Springer. Also, he is visiting faculty in University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. He is active reviewer of more than thirty reputed international journals in Elsevier, Springer, Emerald & Taylor & Francis. Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan received best reviewer certificate from reputed journals. He supervised more than 10 undergraduate and 3 postgraduate and one Ph D scholar. His research interest is Green Supply Chain Management; Sustainable Supply Chain Management; Multi-Criteria Decision Making; Third Party Logistic Provider; Sustainable Lean Manufacturing, Public Distribution System; Lean Six Sigma. He is having more than 10 years research and teaching experience.       

Dr. Ravinder Kumar is working as an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Amity University, Noida, India. His research interest is in Operation Management, SCM of SMEs, Industry 4.0 & Sustainable manufacturing. Dr. Ravinder is Ph D from Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi in 2014. He is having more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. His thesis was on “Coordination and Responsiveness issues of Supply Chain management in Indian SMEs”. His M.E. was in Production Engineering from Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi in 2007 and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Department of Mechanical Engineering, M.D. University, Rohtak with (Hons.). He is an active Reviewer of various Journals namely International Journal of Technology Management – Inderscience, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering – Emerald, Journal of Modelling in Management – Emerald, Benchmarking: An International Journal- Emerald. He has published more than 20 research papers published in peer reviewed international journals and 10 Papers in in National Journal as well as around 15 Research papers presented in International Conferences. He has published a Book Chapter published (Scopus Index) in Handbook of Research on Social and Organizational Dynamics in the Digital Era. IGI Global. Dr. Ravinder has reviewed as book on “Engineering Drawing” by I.K.International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.

J. Paulo Davim received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra in 2005 and the D.Sc. from London Metropolitan University in 2013. He is Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist title in Engineering and Industrial Management. He is also Eur Ing by FEANI-Brussels and Fellow (FIET) by IET-London. Currently, he is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He has also interest in Management, Engineering Education and Higher Education for Sustainability. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D. and master’s students as well as has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards. He has worked as evaluator of projects for ERC-European Research Council and other international research agencies as well as examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many universities in different countries. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 100 prestigious Web of Science journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 100 books and as author (and co-author) more than 10 books, 80 book chapters and 400 articles in journals and conferences (more than 250 articles in journals indexed in Web of Science core collection/h-index 50+/7500+ citations, SCOPUS/h-index 56+/10500+ citations, Google Scholar/h-index 71+/16500+).