Panels
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Data Analytics Panel
Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 8:00 – 9:45 am – Room 2 (Onsite)
Panel Chair
Dr. Hamed Gholami
Asst. Professor of Industrial Engineering
Mines Saint-Étienne
France
Dr. Hamed Gholami is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Étienne and a Researcher at the Henri Fayol Institute, France. He received the M.Eng. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering under the UTM International Doctoral Fellowship scholarship, in 2017. He was honored with the Best Ph.D. Student Award as well as the Alumni and Chancellor Awards at the UTM 59th Convocation Ceremony on Oct. 2017. Since January 2018, he had been a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, UTM. Dr. Gholami has also been acknowledged by the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT) as a Professional Technologist in the field of Manufacturing and Industrial Technology. Given his knowledge and expertise in the field, he has served as a consultant and collaborator on granted projects, a member of editorial boards, a chief guest editor for special issues, and a reviewer in authoritative journals.
Panel Speaker I
Mrs. Jocelyn Ke Yin Lee
Research and Development Engineer
Mines Saint-Étienne
France
Talk Title: Contribution of big data analytics to developing sustainable products
Jocelyn Ke Yin Lee is a Research and Development Engineer at Département GMI (Génie Mathématique et Industriel), LIMOS Lab, Henri Fayol Institute, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France. She obtained her Master of Philosophy degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), in 2022. She gained her industrial experience as a supplier quality engineer for Dyson’s contract manufacturer and later as a project quality engineer for a publicly listed Spanish robotic pool cleaner company. She is a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) under the American Society for Quality (ASQ). She has expertise in quality management systems, supplier management, quality audits, reliability and maintainability, measurement system analysis, continuous improvement, statistical process control, risk management, operations planning, and optimization. Her research interests include quality engineering, sustainable production, lean management, agile manufacturing, and Industry 4.0 technologies. She has published related articles in international refereed journals, such as IEEE Access, Sustainability, and the Journal of Cleaner Production. She also contributed to the book entitled “Sustainable Manufacturing in Industry 4.0” published by Springer in 2023.
Panel Speaker II
Dr. Mohadese Basirati
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Mines Saint-Étienne
France
Talk Title: Application of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods for Human Resource Task Scheduling in Multi-Sided Platforms
Mohadese BASIRATI is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE) and a Researcher at the Henri Fayol Institute (UMR CNRS 6158 LIMOS: Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Modélisation et d’Optimisation des Systèmes), in France. Dr. Basirati received her M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering (Systems Optimization) from Sharif University of Technology on September 2017, and her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (ex Télécom Bretagne) department LUSSI in December 2022. Her research interests are in the areas of multi-objective optimization and operations research, machine learning, multi-criteria decision-making, stochastic programming and robust optimization approaches, supply chain management, negotiation-based algorithms, and simulation. Moreover, she has over six years of work experience in different parts of the food and healthcare industries: international commercial supervisor in foreign purchasing, supply chain manager of distribution networks, health, safety, and environment consultant, R&D manager, and planning manager.
Panel Speaker III
Panel Speaker IV
Women in Industry and Academia (WIIA) Panel
Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 2:00 – 3:45 pm – Room 2 (Onsite)
Panel Chair
Dr. Susana Duarte
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
NOVA School of Science and Technology
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Portugal
Susana Duarte holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. She lectures several courses on topics related to industrial engineering including production management, industrial strategy and management, Industrial engineering, logistics, and lean six sigma, among others. She is a research member of the Research and Development Unit for Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (UNIDEMI) where she develops their investigation in lean thinking, green management, their integration on supply chain management, business sustainability, performance measurement systems, and Industry 4.0. She made part of the research team of the project entitled “Lean, Agile, Resilient and Green Supply Chain Management” and she has published scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings. She was awarded the Outstanding Paper Award (Awards for Excellence) from Emerald Group Publishing, three paper awards from International Conferences, and a Teaching Excellence Award from IEOM society. She is a member of the board of the Portuguese Institute of Industrial Engineering.
Panel Speaker I
Cristina Barros
CEO
SINMETRO Lda
Leiria, Portugal
Cristina Barros is a co-founder partner and CEO of SINMETRO, which, since 2002, works with industry and services in strategic management, productive innovation, digitalization, R&D, software development and training. Since 1998 she has been dedicated to studying industrial processes and evaluate how to optimize them, designing comprehensive re-engineering and digitalization strategies, to increase quality and efficiency. From 2000 to 2023 she was a specialist lecturer in Industrial Engineering and Management at the Polytechnic of Leiria, where she coordinated the post-Graduation in 6 Sigma at Black Belt level, among others. From 2011 to 2018 she was the President of the Dom Dinis Ideas and Businesses Incubator in Leiria. In 2016 she was invited to join the national initiative industry 4.0 and from 2017 and 2020 she coordinated the “Axis 3: Qualification” of the national initiative INCoDe.2030 to stimulate digital competences. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt since 2007 and has coordinated numerous projects in this area. In 1998 she concluded a degree in Chemical Engineering, and in 2005 her Master in Instrumentation, Industrial Maintenance and Quality. In 2009, she successfully completed the Advanced Management Program for Executives at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and, in 2021, the MITxPro Course: Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Making Data-Driven Decisions.
Panel Speaker II
Dr. Henriqueta Sousa
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Researcher, DEMI – Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial
Researcher, UNIDEMI – Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial
Panel Speaker III
Dr. Eng. Carina Pimentel
An Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor
Department of Production and Systems
University of Minho
Portugal
Carina Pimentel is an Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor at the Department of Production and Systems at the University of Minho.
She is a researcher at the Algoritmi Research Unit (https://algoritmi.uminho.pt/) and of the Decision Support Systems group of the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP, http://www.ua.pt/govcopp/).
Over the last years she has been involved in several funded research projects, such as the following ones: Augmented Humanity (Projeto Mobilizador n.º 46103), SOLFI – Sistema de Otimização para a Logística Urbana com Fluxos Integrados de Mercadorias e Passageiros (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-039870), DRIVIT_UP – DRIVIng forces of urban Transformation: assessing pUblic Policies (02/SAICT/2017), SearchCol – Meta-heuristic Search by Column generation (PTDC/EIA-EIA/100645/2008) and Application of Branch-and-Price Algorithms in Scheduling (POSC/SRI/48873/2002).
Her main research interests are related with the Operations Management, Logistics, Supply Chain Management and Operational Research areas, including lean production, production planning and scheduling, production scheduling in human–robot collaboration, urban logistics, maritime logistics, supply chain sustainability, and supply chain performance measurement. Recently she has been also researching the links between Industry 4.0 and the above mentioned areas.
She has successfully supervised approximately sixty master’s dissertations during her professional career.
She mainly publishes the results of her research work in international scientific journals in the Operations Management, Supply Chain Management/Logistics and Operations Research areas, in edited books and in conference proceedings, having more than 50 published papers. Moreover, she has an active participation in the Industrial Engineering professional and research community, being a member of several professional and scientific associations. She is also a member of the drive group of the European Professors of Industrial Engineering and Management.
She has also worked in a textile industry having had responsibilities in the areas of Production Planning, Processes Improvement and Health and Safety.
Panel Speaker IV
Global Supply Chain and Logistics Panel
July 18, 2023, 4:00 – 5:45 pm – Room 2 (Onsite)
Panel Chair
António Pita
Transportation and Supply Chain Manager and Consultant
Portugal
António Pita is a logistics passionate with nearly 15 years of experience in transportation, achieved from the combination of working for two of the world’s largest carriers and joining the shipper side to apply his expertise to improve and develop the operational capabilities of such companies.
His degree in Industrial Management and Engineering from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon was the opener for the logistics world. Starting at FedEx and later at DPD Portugal, he had pick-up and delivery operations under his responsibility, as well as international projects related with processes quality and optimization of the DPD International parcels network.
Already in Germany, António continued to manage projects related with the optimization and forecast of the DPD Group linehaul network. Using the best practices from each DPD country, he supported the design of software applications to drive and manage daily operations across different European countries.
At the shippers side, António could understand the supply chain from a different angle. His knowledge about transportation processes allowed him to lead tenders across Europe and USA, while using those outputs to a better supply chain optimization.
Most recently António have been working on bringing the best practices of parcel visibility and tracking to the ocean freight industry, since he strongly believes that ocean freight users also deserve to know exactly where theirs goods are and when will they arrive, in order to have a smooth supply chain.
Panel Co-Chair
Dr. Helena Carvalho
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
NOVA School of Science and Technology
NOVA University Lisbon
Caparica, PORTUGA
Panel Speaker I
Dr. Vitor R. Caldeirinha
Researcher
ESCE, Instituto Polytechnic of Setúbal, Portugal
ENIDH, Oeiras, Portugal
Vitor Manuel dos Ramos Caldeirinha has a Degree in Economics from ISEG, a postgraduate degree in Port Management, Master MBA/Management from ISEG and PhD in Management from the University of Évora. He was Director of Port Business and Logistics at the Port Authority of Setúbal (where he joined in 1994) and Commercial Director at the Lisbon Port Authority (2003 to 2005). He was President of the Port Authority of Setúbal, of the Association of Ports of Portugal and of ADFERSIT. He is a professor and trainer of port strategy/management and logistics, author of books on port management, co-author of several scientific studies published in top international journals and international consultant/trainer in the area of port management, logistics and transport.
Panel Speaker II
Tarik SAIKOUK Ph.D, HDR (Habil)
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management
Excelia Business School in La Rochelle
Director of research dissertations in the BBA International program
La Rochelle, France
Dr. Tarik Saikouk holds a degree in Industrial Systems Engineering from the University of Technology of Troyes, France (2009), a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from the University of Grenoble, France (2013), and successfully defended his HDR at the University of Grenoble Alpes in 2023. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at Excelia Business School in La Rochelle, and the director of research dissertations in the BBA International program. Starting from September 2023, he will also assume the role Chair of the Supply Chain Department. Additionally, he serves as an Associate Editor for the French Journal of Industrial Management. With an academic background in both engineering and management, Dr. Saikouk has cultivated a unique research perspective that centers on the social complexity of supply chain management. His research interests encompass social capital mobilization, social dynamics, and Lean management practices within the supply chain system. He has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals, including European Management Review, Production Planning & Control, International Journal of Logistics Management, Expert Systems With Applications, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
Panel Speaker III
Inês A. Ferreira
Recent Graduate – Doctoral Program of Industrial Engineering
NOVA School of Science and Technology
Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Science and Technology
Invited Assistant Professor at ISEG (Lisbon School of Economics & Management)
Portugal
Inês A. Ferreira just recently defended her PhD Thesis on the topics of Additive Symbiotic Networks and the adoption of blockchain technology as a tool to promote those networks. This work was realized within the Doctoral Program of Industrial Engineering at NOVA School of Science and Technology. She started her PhD in 2019, after she delivered her Master’s Thesis in Industrial and Management Engineering, focusing on the topic of Industrial Symbiosis Network in the Portuguese Pulp, Paper and Cardboard Industry. From 2019 until 2020 she has been invited as Invited Assistant Professor in Stock’s Management classes at NOVA School of Science and Technology. Moreover, she is currently working as an Invited Assistant Professor at ISEG (Lisbon School of Economics & Management), in the classes of Production and Operation Management. Her research interests mainly concern sustainability, circular economy, industrial symbiosis networks and supply chain management
Panel Speaker IV
Operations Excellence Panel
Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 8:00 – 9:45 am – Room 2 (Onsite)
Panel Chair
Amanda Breeden, MA, MA
Board Member and Director of Communications, Colorado Lean Network
Sr. Director, Office of Research, Denver Health & Hospital Authority
Amanda Breeden is a healthcare leader and lean practitioner at Denver Health and Hospital Authority, a learning health system that expeditiously puts evidence into clinical practice. Amanda oversees all clinical research, sponsored programs, and research operations at Denver Health, an institution that provides medical care to primarily underserved community members. She is committed to bring lean management to research operations globally and shouts about it often on LinkedIn. She is experienced utilizing a lean management system in the oversight and compliance of a $450M+ portfolio of active research, grants, and contracts. As a fully functional practitioner in lean management systems with a specialization in administrative and operational excellence, she spends her days facilitating and engaging in system-wide process improvements. Amanda serves as a board member of the Colorado Lean Network. She is an active member of many research administration and health care networks, societies, and associations where she presents on the intersection of lean and research administration in clinical research, site-based clinical trial management, and managing virtual teams. Amanda received dual M.A. degrees from the University of Northern Iowa in Human Service Administration and Women’s and Gender studies.
Panel Speaker I
DAVE HARRY, a.k.a. “The Process Whisperer®”
Retired U.S. Naval Aviator
CEO of Process Whisperer® Consultants LLC, Greeneville, Tennessee, USA
ASQ certified Six Sigma Black Belt and A PMI certified PMP®
Dave is a retired U.S. Naval aviator and currently CEO of Process Whisperer® Consultants LLC. He teaches LSS classes for TMG Inc of Newport News, VA. Prior to TMG, Dave was a Six Sigma and Productivity Consultant for the University of TN Center for Industrial Services. Dave is a “Kata Geek” and also an ASQ certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He is active in ASQ Sections and the ASQ Lean Enterprise Division Communications. In addition to ASQ, he also holds Black Belt Certification through Rolls-Royce and Northrop Grumman. He is a seasoned ASQ International Team Excellence Awards (ITEA) Judge. Dave is also currently on the Lean Division Board with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). Dave is on the Conference Advisory Committee for ASQs 2019 L&SS Conference in Phoenix as well as the Conference Committee for the IISE Engineering 2018 Lean Six Sigma Conference in Atlanta. A PMI certified PMP®, Dave also holds Lean Bronze Certification (LBC) through the SME/ASQ/AME/Shingo Institute Alliance and he holds three Master’s Degrees in management related fields. In addition to ASQ, PMI and IISE, Dave is also a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the Association of Manufacturing Excellence (AME) and the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS). Dave lives in Greeneville TN.
Panel Speaker II
Dr. Tony Prensa, PhD, MBA, PMP, CB-PMO, CCP, ITIL, 6σ
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
TP Global Business Consulting, LLC
Orlando, Florida, USA
Dr. Prensa is a highly accomplished executive and leader of project management office (PMO), project/portfolio management, information systems and technologies, combines a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership with a major in Information Systems and Technologies, Certified PMO Professional, Authorized PMO Instructor, Certified Project Management (PMP), and ITILIV certification with extensive experience managing and overseeing large information systems projects/programs, strategic planning, and seamless IT implementations. Adept at reengineering business processes, change management and IT infrastructure with business visions to drive profitability, efficiency, and growth within the organization. Proficient at ensuring all processes comply with regulatory requirements and IT governance practices. Excellent communicator with strong influencing and problem-solving skills. Strong leadership skills and demonstrated ability to lead team members and external business contacts including stakeholders such as consultants, partners and vendors. Demonstrated track record of delivery of multiple technical and business projects on time and within budget. Experience in full-lifecycle project management methodologies and tools. Dr. Prensa has been involved with the Project Management Institute for more than twenty-five years. He served a vice president of PMI Puerto Rico Chapter from 1998-2000. He also volunteered in many activities to promote project management and participated of writing PMP exam questions workshop in Dallas, Texas in 2002. Dr. Prensa has helped hundreds of project management professionals to get prepared for the PMP exam. Dr. Prensa has taught project management for several universities in the country, including Virginia Technical University, Grand Canyon University, Colorado Technical University, University of Phoenix and currently teaching for Walden University. With more than 25 years of teaching experience in various formats, face-to-face and virtual. Dr. Prensa has developed techniques to connect with learners and students in the most efficient way. Dr. Prensa has extraordinary people skills, he always puts people first.
Panel Speaker III
Panel Speaker IV
Sustainability Panel
Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 2:00 – 3:45 pm – Room 2 (Onsite)
Panel Chair
Professor Linda Zhang
Full Professor of Operations Management
Department of Management
IESEG School of Management
Paris, France
Linda L. ZHANG is currently a Professor of Operations Management in Department of Operations Management at IESEG School of Management (LEM-CNRS 9221), Lille-Paris, France. She obtained her BEng and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering in 1998 and 2007, respectively. Her research interests include sustainable supply chain and operations management, product and production configuration, financial management, etc. On these areas, she has published many articles in international refereed journals, such as Decision Support Systems, IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, European Journal of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, etc. She serves as an associate editor for several peer-reviewed international journals, such as Decision Analytics Journal, Supply Chain Analytics, and Journal of Engineering Design. Professor Zhang has obtained many paper awards from different peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. She has been elected as a Fellow of the IEOM Society International.
Panel Speaker I
Dr. Petri Helo
Professor of Industrial Management, Logistics Systems
Head of Networked Value Systems Research Group
School of Technology and Innovations
University of Vaasa, Finland
Petri Helo is Professor of Industrial Management, Logistics Systems and the head of Networked Value Systems research group, at School of Technology and Innovations, University of Vaasa, Finland. His research addresses the management of supply demand networks and use of information technology in operations. Prof. Helo is also partner and board member at Wapice Ltd, a software solution provider of CPQ and IoT solutions.
Talk Title: Visibility of GHG emissions in supply chains
Abstract:
Supply chains are global in all most all industries – products are built from raw materials and components imported from other countries. At the same time, the origin of the products and the effects of the supply chain on the environment, climate change have become a new dimension alongside selling price, delivery time and delivery reliability. Also, consumers want transparency in product supply chains. They are even more interested in the wide-ranging effects of their purchasing decisions. Manufacturers, on the other hand, must be able to reliably identify and report issues related to origin and greenhouse gas emissions. Technological advances in information systems, including IoT and blockchains create possibilities to build a better visibility on environmental effects of products. This talk with review some possible approaches how visibility can be built in the near future.
Panel Speaker II
Dr. Charles Mbohwa
Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany
Professor Extraordinaire at the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa
Past Professor and Executive Dean, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Past Pro-Vice Chancellor Strategic Partnerships and Industrialisation, University of Zimbabwe
Professor Charles Mbohwa is currently based in Germany and is a Professor Extraordinaire at the Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa. He is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg; He was the University of Zimbabwe Pro-Vice Chancellor responsible for Strategic Partnerships and Industrialisation until 30th Junes 2022. Before that he was a Professor of sustainability engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg where he worked from 2007 to 2019. He was a lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe between 1993 and 2007 and a mechanical engineer in the National Railways of Zimbabwe from 1986 to 1991. He was Chairman and Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Zimbabwe from 1994 to 1997; Vice-Dean of Postgraduate Studies Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg from July 2014 to June 2017 and Acting Executive Dean in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment from November 2017 to July 2018. He has published very widely. He holds a BSc Honours in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe 1986; Masters of Science in Operations Management and Manufacturing Systems from University of Nottingham 1992; and a Doctor of Engineering from the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology 2004. He researches on sustainability engineering and energy systems.
Panel Speaker III
Prof. Laoucine Kerbache
Chair of Division of Engineering Management and Decision Sciences
College of Science and Engineering
Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Education City, Qatar Foundation
P.O. Box. 34110. Doha, Qatar
Bio:
Dr. Laoucine Kerbache is currently serving as Full Professor and a Founding Faculty Member of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Program within the Engineering Management and Decision Sciences Division at HBKU. Further, he has been Full Professor at HEC Paris for the last 25 years serving as Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management as well as holding various academic positions such as Director of Specialized Master in Logistics and Global Souring (2004-2007), Director the HEC Paris PhD Program (2007-2012), Dean and CEO of HEC Paris in Qatar (2013-2016).
For over thirty-five years of academic, research, and consulting activities, he has been very active in his areas of expertise, focusing on modeling and optimization in Operations and Supply Chain Management. He has published over one hundred twenty papers in international journals. He holds a PhD, MSc, and BSc in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA., USA.
Title: Enhancing Qatar Rail with Electric First-Last Mile Transport Network
Abstract:
The car sharing literature is still nascent and there are many gaps that need to be tackled. For instance, there are no tools to predict the benefits of sharing and its sensitivity to various policy parameters; nor how to apply the shared economy concepts in the context of car sharing, as well as the lack of optimization models regarding the design of private and public transportation systems. We will discuss some of these gaps and, in particular, a set of analytical models relative to the integration of first-and-last mile transport network feeding a rail system with mixed fleet of electric vehicles.
In general, there are two important characteristics of the vehicle sharing networks: symmetry and asymmetry of their configurations. In symmetric systems, only two-way trips are allowed which means that the customer must return the vehicle to the picked-up location. In asymmetric systems, one-way trips are allowed which means that the customer drops the vehicle off at any station or within an operation zone. One-way vehicle sharing has been shown to benefit both the customers and the operating companies (Martin and Shaheen, 2016; Shaheen et al., 2015). However, asymmetric vehicle sharing has major drawbacks due to the generated vehicle imbalance across the parking stations network. This is a major problem that leads to poor customer service and satisfaction levels. To deal with this imbalance problem, new innovative incentive solutions need to be developed to help relocate the cars to balance the network in terms of cars capacity to maintain sufficient availability at the EVs stations.
Within this context, the first mile and last mile transport system playing the role of connectivity to a rail configuration raises many complex vehicle sharing problems that need to be addressed. Among the numerous combinatorial problems, there is a need to tackle the following issues:
- Location Planning (fixed and floating parking locations, dedicated and public electric charging stations)
- Mixed Vehicle Fleet size
- EV charging stations network
- Vehicle Sharing Reservation policies
- Vehicle Sharing Pricing policies
- Vehicles Relocation policies
Deploying such large-scale integrated transportation systems in highly densified urban areas is an effective option that should help achieve numerous urban objectives such as increased flexible mobility, improved urban air quality, de-carbonization, and sustainability. The Doha urban transportation system is a very interesting case study to discuss.
Panel Speaker IV
Dr. Adel Elomri
Division of Engineering Management and Decision Sciences
College of Science and Engineering
Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Education City, Qatar Foundation
P.O. Box. 34110. Doha, Qatar
Bio:
Dr. Adel Elomri serves as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Engineering Management and Decision Sciences at the College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. He earned his Ph.D. and MS degrees in Supply Chain and Operations Management from CentraleSupélec, Paris, France, and a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunisia. Dr. Elomri’s research interests intersect operations research, operations economics, and engineering management. His work on supply chain carbon footprinting has contributed to introducing novel methods for modeling carbon emissions and examining innovative strategies to reduce the environmental impact of supply chains. Currently, Dr. Elomri is undertaking projects in diverse areas such as healthcare operations management, sustainable supply chain management, and smart logistics.
Title: Where has supply chain carbon footprinting research gone?
Abstract:
In recent decades, the concept of carbon footprinting within supply chains has garnered significant attention, playing a pivotal role in addressing environmental regulations and fueling self-initiated designs for low-carbon supply chains. Increasingly, firms find themselves under pressure from both governmental bodies and environmental advocacy groups to decrease their carbon footprints. Regardless of legislative mandates, a rising wave of voluntary industry initiatives aimed at emission reduction is evident. The underlying motivation for such endeavors typically stems from the acknowledgment that high carbon emissions signify inefficiencies within the supply chain. Additionally, certain firms recognize a marketing potential in proffering products with a lower carbon footprint to consumers who are becoming progressively conscious of a low-carbon society. This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of academic literature, scrutinizing the contributions of academic committees towards modeling carbon emissions in supply chains. Particular focus is accorded to the strategies, methodologies, and models proposed for the evaluation and mitigation of carbon emissions within the realm of supply chain and operations management. This research also underscores the role of academic committees in guiding this area of study, specifically highlighting their influence in molding its present state and charting its future course.
Global Engineering Education Panel
July 19, 2023, 4:00 – 5:45 pm – Room 2 (Onsite)
Panel Chair
Assoc. Prof. Jiri Tupa, PhD.
Vice-dean for Strategy and Development
COO of Research and Innovation center for Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Electrical Engineering | RICE
University of West Bohemia
Univerzitni 26, 301 00
Pilsen, Czech Republic
Panel Speaker I
Professor Min Xie
Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering
Department of Systems Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR, China
Min Xie has been a Chair Professor at City University of Hong Kong since 2011. Prior to that, he was with National University of Singapore for 20 years, where he joined as one of the first recipient of LKY research fellow. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate education in Sweden. He has carried out extensive research in quality management, reliability engineering, and industrial statistics, and published over 300 journal papers and 10 books. He has advised 60 PhD students, now working in industry or academia in different continents. Prof Xie currently chairs IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society’s Fellow Evaluation Committee. He has been an elected fellow to IEEE since 2005 and since 2022 to European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Presentation title:
International education through joint/double degree programs and research collaboration
Abstract:
In this talk, we will share some of our experiences with joint/double degree programs that I have been involved in. We will also discuss some related issues of international research collaboration and exchanges, which is important for graduate students.
Panel Speaker II
Panel Speaker III
Panel Speaker IV
Industry 4.0 Panel
Thursday, July 20, 2023, 8:00 – 9:45 am – Room 2 (Onsite)
Panel Chair
Dr. Matteo Mario Savino
Professor of Industrial Operations and Industrial Management
University of Sannio
Benevento, Italy
Matteo Mario Savino is a Professor of Industrial Operations and Industrial Management at the University of Sannio. He received a PhD in Industrial plants in 1999 at the University Federico II of Naples, Department of Design and Industrial Engineering. Among his research interests there are Project Management, Risk Assessment, Quality aspects related to industrial production. He has managed several National and EU Funded research and educational projects. Since 2008 he has been a Delegate of the Rector for Quality Assurance and is the President of the University Quality Centre. He is the author of more than 50 Scientific Publications and participates in International Journals and International Peer Review proceedings.
Dr. Savino is also the Quality Manager for the University Quality Centre. This centre is in charge of the quality assurance for the research and didactic activities of the whole university. He is involved in several EU funded projects on quality, supply chain and higher education. His research interests are mainly focused on industrial operations, quality and supply chain management.
Panel Speaker I
Diessica de Oliveira-Dias
Department of Business Organization, Marketing and Sociology
University of Jaen
Jaen, Spain
Panel Speaker II
Panel Speaker III
Panel Speaker IV
Diversity and Inclusion Panel sponsored by Ford Motor Company
Thursday, July 20, 2023, 2:00 – 3:45 pm – Room 2 (Onsite)
Panel Chair – Representing North America
Professor Donald M. Reimer
President, The Small Business Strategy Group, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Adjunct Faculty – A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering
Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA
Director, Membership and Chapter Development, IEOM Society
Donald M. Reimer is an adjunct faculty at the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical Engineering in College of Engineering at Lawrence Tech in Southfield, Michigan. He coordinates the Certificate of Entrepreneurial Engineering Skills. Mr. Reimer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Lawrence Technological University and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from University of Detroit/Mercy. He is a Certified Management Consultant with over 35 years of experience in working with closely-held businesses. He has taught courses in entrepreneurship, strategic management, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation for engineers. Mr. Reimer is a member of the Lawrence Tech Kern Campus Committee, Coordinator of the Lawrence Tech Innovation Encounter. He is faculty Advisor of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Mr. Reimer serves as a Kern Fellow of The Kern Family Foundation, Co-Direct of the Coleman Fellows Program, member of the National Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization Faculty Advisory Council and is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education.
He has operated his own consulting company – The Small Business Strategy Group for 23 years. He published numerous articles on small business, entrepreneurship and strategic thinking. He has received several awards and recognition by local, state and federal agencies for his work in entrepreneurship and minority business development. Mr. Reimer served as member of the Minority Economic Development Committee of New Detroit. Mr. Reimer is member of the Small Business Advisory Council of the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Reimer is a member of Advisory Board of the Milwaukee Junction Small Business Assistance Center. He is also a member of the Applied Innovation Alliance. Mr. Reimer serves as a KEEN Fellow for The Kern Family Foundation and is a member of United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Panel Speaker I – Representative from Africa
Panel Speaker II – Representative from Asia
Panel Speaker III – Representative from Europe
Panel Speaker IV – Representative from Middle East
Panel Speaker IV – Representative from South America
Lean Six Sigma Panel
July 20, 2023, 4:00 – 5:45 pm – Room 2 (Onsite)
Panel Chair
Pedro Monteiro
Operational Excellence Manager for Europe, Asia and New Zealand, Allied Motion Technologies
Founder and Editor, theleanmag
Associate Founder, projectoSONAR
Porto, Portugal
Pedro Monteiro holds an Industrial Engineering degree and is and Operations Management graduate with more than 15 years’ experience in the manufacturing industry, always in large multinational and multicultural organizations. From process engineering to lean and operational excellence, quality and maintenance, the focus has always been high-level organizational culture and high performing teams at all value chain processes.
Currently, Pedro is Operational Excellence Manager for Europe, China and New Zealand for at Allied Motion Technologies, an American company in the motion control solutions market – essentially, electric motors.
Founder and editor of theleanmag, the digital magazine about lean, continuous improvement, operational excellence, leadership and organizational culture. Altruistic and with a strong community style, theleanmag shares the lean knowledge across the globe, in all 6 continents, 57 countries, with more than 700 contacts from 27 different business sectors, and 2500+ followers on LinkedIn.
Co-founder of projectoSONAR, a Portuguese benchmarking project for continuous improvement – based in visits and best practices sharing, this project’s target is to “share excellence”.
Invited to public events, Pedro is always willing to share his knowledge, experience, and stories with the audience valuing people’s efforts to grow with the mantra “knowledge is everyone’s”.
Panel Speaker I
Miguel Ribeiro | MBA, LSSBB, Eng. Degree
Entrepreneur, Trainer & Senior Consultant in Strategy and Organizational Excellence
Lean Six Sigma PgD and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
MBA & Organizational Behavior Specialization by Porto Business School
Materials Engineering | Pre-Bologna Graduate by University of Aveiro
Porto, Portugal
Miguel Ribeiro is an Entrepreneur, Trainer & Senior Consultant in Strategy and Organizational Excellence. His Entrepreneurship ventures are most of them around Tech & Metalworking Industries. He’s 20+ years of experience leading Org. Excellence, i4.0 and Change Management initiatives to deliver tangible business targets. As a Senior Consultant and Trainer most of his work deals with Strategy, Operations, X4.0, IT and recognized Lean Six Sigma Certification Programs. He has extensive experience collaborating with business leaders & teams mainly across Portugal, EU and CPLP countries . His passion about People and the Continuous Improvement and End to End customer-focused mindset are part of every delivery he does. Focus Sectors: Metalworking, Ceramics, Injection Molding, Textile, Woodworking, Tech & Home Appliances and LPG mainly in the Automotive, Aerospace, Metalworking, Woodworking and FMCG markets. Organizational Excellence and Change Management: cross-functional Lean Six Sigma projects and Value Stream Mapping in several businesses: savings of 15-40% following breakthrough in flow and in quality. Change Management of senior leadership into org. excellence, servant leadership. pull flow and continuous improvement mindset. Deadly Sins Change Management Gap Analysis: alignment of companies’ vision and goals by operational initiatives between businesses & functions, cascading consistent objectives, measures and reviews across all levels while ensuring high employee engagement and motivation to sustain the change. Leadership Development: initiatives focused on leaders, first to ensure they have the right leadership skills followed by helping them in building high performance processes and teams through a constant culture of coaching, feedback and by a servant leadership style. Business and Marketing Strategy consultancy. IT and Tech Related : design and structuring of ERPs rollout plan in ISO9001, IATF16949 and AS9100 companies. Several BI development initiatives with Tableau and Power BI linked to the ERP DW while changing enumerative studies to Dr. Deming’s Analytics mindset. Furthermore, the deployment RapidMiner and advanced Minitab trainings to Senior Leadership and Middle Management: lean processes robustness and root cause analysis by A3 Problem Solving. Ignited and led i4.0 processes and developed teams soft and hard skills for all ISA-95 MDM levels: iIoT, PLCs and CRM Big Data into Low Code scrips & ERP DW.
Panel Speaker II
Bruno Moura
Operational Excellence Director
Leroy Merlin
Lisbon, Portugal
Bruno Moura is an experienced Operational Excellence Director skilled in designing, supporting and implementing World-Class Corporate Growth & Transformation Projects & Programs.
He is currently the Process & Continuous Improvement Director at Leroy Merlin Portugal and the Vice-President for the European Lean Managers Society, an organization focused on sharing knowledge about between companies developing Continuous Improvement efforts in Europe.
His background is in Sustainability, Safety & Health, Retail and Civil Construction but, over the past 10 years, is helping organizations to take their Continuous Improvement efforts to the next level, namely by fostering BPMn, Agile, Design Thinking, Lean/Kaizen, RPA and Process Mining to reimagine organizational service quality, boost employee engagement and lower operational costs.
Panel Speaker III
Panel Speaker IV
Amandine da Eira
Lean Practitioner – CSM® – Operational Excellence – Continuous Improvement – Business Transformation
Senior Operations Analyst
Feedzai
Lisbon, Portugal
Amandine da Eira is an experienced Lean Practitioner. Graduated first in Translation, after working several years managing strategic and continuous improvement initiatives, she became a Lean Practitioner by LGN, Atlantica University, a LSSBB and has a Mini MBA in Lean Services Management. Besides providing Lean coaching and training, she has had the opportunity to lead Lean and Six Sigma projects in the Manufacturing industry (Eyeglass lenses manufacture and Electrical appliances manufacture), at the Service Industry, in the Banking Industry, and Software Industry. She is currently working as Senior Operations Analyst, Operational Excellence at Feedzai, the market leader in fighting financial crime with AI and is a certified Scrum Master. Kaizen is her motto and she is deeply committed to the Lean culture practice, not only at work with her peers but also with every person she engages with on a daily basis.
Panel Speaker V
Pedro Sousa
Continuous Improvement Leader
IKEA Industry
Paços de Ferreira, Porto, Portugal
