This book contains the second volume of selected papers from International Symposium for Production Research 2024, held on October 1012, 2024, in Budva, Montenegro. The book reports recent advances in production engineering and operations. This year's conference had the overarching theme of "Sustainable Green Conversion." The book explores topics including:
Simulation and Modelling, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, Sustainability and Capstone Projects.
Presenting real-life applications, case studies, and mathematical models, this book is of interest to researchers, academics, and practitioners in the field of production and operation engineering. It provides both the results of recent research and practical solutions to real-world problems.
Logistics Management.- New Era in Production Management Education.- Process Management.- Production Economy.- Production Planning and Control.- Productivity and Performance Management.- Risk Analysis and Management.- Optimization.- Simulation and Modelling.- Stock Control and Inventory Management.- Supply Chain Management.- Sustainability.- Work Study and Ergonomics.- Capstone Projects.
Professor Dr. Numan M. Durakbasa graduated from TU Wien-Cum-laude doctors degree in Production engineering and Metrology. From 2006 - 2020 Head of the Department for "Interchangeable Manufacturing and Industrial Metrology and Precision Metrology and Nanotechnology Laboratory of the Institute of Production Engineering and Photonic Technologies at TU Wien. He serves as an invited lecturer and guest professor at several European universities.
He is an expert of the Austrian Standard Committee Geometrical Product Specifications and Verification, Austrian representative and expert in the International Measurement Confederation IMEKO, and a founder member of Austrian Forum Quality SciencesFQW. He was founder and later head of the Personnel Certification Body (accredited according to ISO 17024) at the TU Wien.
He has published more than 550 scientific papers and 20 books and held 300 lectures in various European countries as well as in Argentina, Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, Cuba, Egypt, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, Russia, VAR, Thailand, Turkey, and USA.
Kemal Güven Gülen is the head of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Namk Kemal University, Tekirda. He served as the Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Commerce University (2001-2003) and the Head of the Department of Logistics (2003-2014), and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Nianta University (2014-2016). After completing his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Business Economics at Istanbul University (1985-1987). He completed his master's degree (1987-1989) and doctorate degree (1989-1994) at the Department of Production Management at Istanbul University. He actively participates in the organization of ongoing scientific studies in the fields of Production Research (since 1997) and Management Research (since 2021), and has two published books and numerous research publications.
