Manufacturing Process Validation

Arturo Realyvasquez Vargas is a full-time Department of Industrial Engineering professor at Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico/Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana in Mexico. He received a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico and a Ph.D. in Innovation in Product Engineering and Industrial Process at the University of La Rioja (Spain). His main research areas are industrial process optimization, lean manufacturing, and ergonomics. Furthermore, Dr. Realyvasquez is an author/coauthor of around 20 papers published in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports and has supervised more than 20 bachelor theses and five master theses.

Jorge Luis Garcia Alcaraz is a full-time researcher at the Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Department at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering Sciences from Ciudad Juarez Technological Institute (Mexico), a Ph.D. in Innovation in Product Engineering and Industrial Process from the University of La Rioja (Spain), a Ph.D. in Sciences and Industrial Technologies from the Public University of Navarre (Spain), and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zaragoza (Spain). His main research areas are the multicriteria decision-making process and techniques applied to lean manufacturing, production processes, and supply chain modeling. Dr. Garcia is an author/coauthor of 299 documents indexed in Scopus and has attended more than 150 international conferences.

Suchismita Satapathy is an associate professor at the School of Mechanical Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. She has published over 130 articles in national and international journals and conferences. Her research interests include production operation management, operation research, acoustics, sustainability, and supply chain management. She has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience and has guided many Ph.D. (two completed, four ongoing), MTech (20), and BTech (49) students. Suchismita has published books such as Production Operation Management (Stadium Press) and MCDM Techniques for Waste Management with CRC Press.

Jose Roberto Diaz-Reza has a master's degree in industrial engineering with a specialty in quality, a Ph.D. in innovation in product engineering and industrial processes from the University of La Rioja (Spain), and a Ph.D. in advanced engineering sciences from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez (Mexico). He has published a book and some articles in indexed journals related to lean manufacturing tools. Dr. Diaz-Reza has also participated in international congresses, and his areas of interest are optimizing industrial processes using Lean Manufacturing tools.