Sustainable Automated Production Systems: Industry 4.0 Models and Techniques

Due to disruptions occurring within production processes as a result of different circumstances, it is necessary to provide a new and safe production system that can pass any crisis such as a pandemic. New sustainable automated production systems need to be proposed and adopted by industrial managers and this book fulfills that need.

Hamed Fazlollahtabar earned a BSc and an MSc in industrial engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2015 and has completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in the area of reliability engineering for complex systems from October 2016 to March 2017. He joined the Department of Industrial Engineering at Damghan University, Damghan, Iran, in June 2017, and currently is working as an Associate Professor. He is on the editorial boards of several journals and on the technical committees of several conferences. His research interests are in robotic production systems, reliability engineering, sustainable supply chain planning, and business intelligence and analytics. He has published more than 300 research papers in international books, journals, and conferences and has published 10 books.