Reconfigurable Manufacturing Enterprises for Industry 4.0 [Paperback]

This book supports readers facing the urgency, challenges, analysis, and methodologies to reconfiguration. It presents a comprehensive framework for reconfiguring in manufacturing enterprises and provides a set of valuable conceptual frameworks and methodologies for analyzing, evaluating, and assessing reconfiguration indices.

Ibrahim Garbie is currently a Professor of Industrial Engineering within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Helwan University in Egypt. Dr. Garbie received his Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from University of Houston, Texas, USA in 2003. He also received his M.Sc. in Manufacturing Engineering and B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Production from Helwan University in Egypt in 1996 and 1991, respectively. He has been a visiting professor in several universities and participated in several national/international educational development programs in many capacities such as a consultant and research investigator. His research interests encompass Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing systems, Reconfiguration and Sustainability of Manufacturing Enterprises, Manufacturing Processes and Economics, Manufacturing/Production Systems Analysis and Design, Lean Production, Agile Systems, and Engineering Education. He has authored more than 82 articles in well-regarded international peer reviewed archival journals, conferences, technical reports, and book chapters. Dr. Garbie has been a frequent speaker at international conferences with more than 50 papers to his credit and a frequent reviewer in several International Journals and Conferences. In addition, he is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of manufacturing Technology Management, and International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education. His most recent authored book, Sustainability in Manufacturing Enterprises, has been published by Springer in 2016. Dr. Garbie is a Senior Member of the InlCO