Decision Support Models, Planning, Scheduling and Control Problems of Manufacturing System, Supply Chain Network

• Operations Research and Simulation Model for decision-making in Manufacturing and Supply Chain
• Computational Intelligence and Analytics (Manufacturing and Logistics domain)
• Product and Process Improvements (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly, Quality Improvements
methods)

•  ASME - Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering
• Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE)
• Engineering Optimization (T&F)
• European Journal of Operation Research (EJOR)
• IEEE Transactions Automation Science and Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part: A)
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part: B)
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part: C)
• Information Sciences
• Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (ICAE)
• Integrated Manufacturing Systems
• International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.
• International Journal of Business Performance Management
• International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• International Journal of Management Science (Omega)
• International Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management
• International Journal of Material Processing Technology
• International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
• International Journal of Production Economics (IJPE)
• International Journal of Production Research (IJPR)
• International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage
• International Journal of System Science (IJSS)
• International Journal of Technology Management
• Journal of Heuristics
• Journal of Operation Research Society (JORS)
• Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce
• Management Research News
• Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
• Proceedings of Institute of Mechanical Engineering Part: B Journal of Engineering Manufacture
• Proceedings of Institute of Mechanical Engineering Part: C Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Science
• Proceedings of Institute of Mechanical Engineering Part: G Journal of Aerospace Engineering

At NITIE Mumbai:

Last one year as a director of the institute and as a professor in domain of logistics and supply chain management. The following project has been undertaken.
• Pradeep Metals Limited:
This is an integrated project of several activities including, Pre-order inventory to reduce lead time and increase production speed, identify material type required over the next 2-months time period, and preplan inventory for these materials through forecasting using machine learning techniques.
• o9solutions:
It is a start-up, which offers as a project to identify and build a forecasting model for large scale retailers. (5 Lakh per Annum)
• Air Asia:
Under my principal investigator implementing real-life project related to ground staff demand generation and roster allocation, crew planning, tail mapping and optimal development for manpower allocation. (16 Lakh per Annum) In two of project, the company save more than one crore rupees after implementing as staff allocation model.
• Sustainable Logistics of the Future (FutureLOG) (International collaboration):
This Research project is funded by the Research Council of Norway and collaboration with eighteen research organisation across the globe. I have been a partner of Research Council and led by Prof. Dr Fabio Sgarbossa, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. (10 Lakh per Annum) 45

At IIT Kharagpur:

• Digital manufacturing and industrial internet of things for enhanced supply chain coordination, quality, and maintenance (Role: Principal Investigator):
This project aims to provide visibility, traceability, and simulated setting of the products and entire value chain for performance assessment of manufacturing and supply chain efficiently and reliably, to develop a framework to apply digital manufacturing and the Internet of things across different partners of discrete products and heavy industry units and contribute to technological progress in manufacturing and supply chain environment on a global scale. I am the principal project investigator of this project.It is sponsored by the Department of Heavy Industry under the component Centre of Excellence for Technology Development (COE) of the Scheme on enhancing competitiveness in the Indian capital goods sector. The value of this project is Rs 3.34 crores (0.48 Million USD @ 69.25 Indian rupees to 1 US dollar.). It is a five-years duration project (2018-2022).
• Sustainable Food Security through Technological Interventions for Production, Processing and Logistics (Role: Principal Investigator):
The vision of this research is to develop integrated and focused mission projects to pursue aggressive research and innovation, which will guide to enhance the food productivity, appropriate storage optimally, reduced wastage and logistics, to support the realization of sustainable implementation of NFSA and positively contribute to safe, healthy and on-time supply to the beneficiaries. It is sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt of India. The value of this project is Rs 16 crores(2.3 Million USD). It is a three-years duration project (2014-2017).
• Center of Excellence on E-Business (Role: Principal Investigator):
The center is developed to support logistics and manufacturing, decision making and operation analytics. It is conceptualized to foster research and develop decision support models with view to resolve complexities in the area of loading/unloading of vehicles, market analysis, procurement, supplier selection, manufacturing planning and scheduling, etc. It is sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, providing a competitive project grant of Rs 4 crores.

At NIFFT Ranchi :

• Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP):
To develop the institute and modernize the laboratories, I took the lead and prepared comprehensive project documents. After presentation and scrutiny, National Project Implementation Unit (NPIU), a body responsible to implement World Bank project, considered NIFFT in the category of Lead Institutions. Under this project, institute received a grant of Rs. 14 Crore (US $3.04 Million) and I was acting as its coordinator of the project till July 2007.
• Campus wide Networking (CWN):
This project was of worth Rs 1.5 Crore (US $ 0.32 Million). Its proposal was prepared by me and under the plan grant of the institute. The project was sanctioned by Board of Governors and controlling Ministry (year 2002). I was convener of the project. Here, main task was to prepare the specifications of networking components and other hardwares and softwares by involving experts from premier institutions like IIT’s. I have coordinated each and every activity, right from selection of networking experts, procurement consultant, floating the advertisement, evaluation of tenders, installation and commissioning, and finally certification. This project was successfully completed and institute was fully connected with internet.
As a coordinator, I prepared the documents and supervised the visit of National Board of Accreditation (NBA) team deputed by AICTE. It was a massive coordinated efforts from various agencies and departments and all the six programs got accredited by the team in 2004. Presented the case of NIFFT before the University Grant Commission for Deemed to be University status. Commission agreed to send an expert team to assess the institute and its proposal (2005).

Sponsored Project (Supported by International Agencies):

• Requirements for and impacts of ICT based advanced manufacturing with special reference to Indian context sponsored by Germany- ACATECH, Indian Institute of Technology National Academy of Science and Engineering.
• Studying and analyzing carbon trading regime for Global Collaborative Supply Chain (ACTR) sponsored by The University of Sheffield, UK.
• Dynamic Scheduling and chartering of oil tankers and their solution by simulation based Optimization sponsored by University of Connecticut, Gali, Zaicek.
• EU Indian Research & Innovation Partnership for efficient and sustainable freight Transportation (REINVSET). Duration: 4 Year; Amount: 30 Lakh Rupee Prof M K Tiwari is the main Project Investigator and here work package proposed are leading to exploration of areas related to sustainable freight analysis and intermodal transportation. The Key performance indicators related to freight transportation (that covers flexible, quality, reaction time and intermodal freight transfer) need to be evolved and linked with developing supply chain network,cross docking and profit and carbon trading among the partners (EU sponsored project, where main leading partners are Sheffield university-UK, Loughborough University-UK, South East European Research Centre (SEERC), IIT-B and IIT-D).

During his academic career, he has taught several courses, which include Supply Chain Management, Intelligent Manufacturing, Flexible Manufacturing System, Operations Research, Operations Management, Computational Intelligence, Networks and Project Management, and Design for Manufacturing (DfM), and Design for Assembly and Automation (DfAA) at various institutes and universities.