^{3rd International Conference and Exhibition on} Industrial Engineering November 14-15, 2016 Dubai

Imaekhai Lawrence has completed his PhD at the age of 39 years from the University of Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Ergonomics contributes potentially to systems design through focus operational challenges in its market readiness and in the supply of high quality applications. The fundamental characteristics of system design, design driven potentials and performance and well being are its unique pride. The ability to strengthen the demand for high quality, increasing awareness among stakeholders, the application of high quality, specialization, research excellent in the linearity is dependent in this paper. Ergonomics addresses major business and societal challenges regarding work and product service system. Ergonomic potentials, however, is underexploited. This paper present a strategy for ergonomic to strengthen demand and application of high quality emphasizing its key elements; systems approach, design driven and performance and well being goals.

Aida Shojaeifar is a graduate student of industrial engineering at Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran. Her research interests are reliability systems, production system and statistical models. She presented her researches in international journals and conferences.

As complex systems have become global and essential in today’s society, their reliable design and the determination of their availability have turned into a very important task for managers and engineers. Industrial robots are examples of these complex systems that are being increasingly used for intelligent transportation, production and distribution of materials in warehouses and automated production lines. In this paper, a comprehensive fault tree analysis (FTA) on the critical components of industrial robots is conducted. This analysis is integrated with the reliability block diagram (RBD) approach in order to investigate the robot system reliability. For practical implementation, a particular robot system is first modeled. Then, FTA is adopted to model the causes of failures, enabling the probability of success to be determined. In addition, RBD is employed to simplify the complex system of the robot for reliability evaluation purpose. Finally, cost-based decision tree is configured to compute the cost of each component and the whole robot system.

Mobina Amirian is a graduate student of Innovation and Technology Management at Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. She is working on sustainability management in supply chain and environmental concerns. She has presented some papers in international conferences and published technical reports.

Industrial firms in developing countries have recently started to adopt sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) to manage their environmental responsibility. Though, achieving sustainable production within a SSCM context has been one of the most pressing challenges in emerging markets, as it may not involve securing financial benefits. Costumers and governments are compelling companies to become more sustainable. However, the lack of research on how to incorporate these issues makes this a challenging task. The case is more demanding for supply chain (SC) with several elements such as supplier, producer, customer and etc. To fill this gap a generic conceptual model is proposed focusing on sustainability dimensions of economic, social an environmental using multi-objective programming model for the design and planning of supply chains. Integrating the three dimensions of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) is presented within an interconnection and interaction paradigms. The economic pillar of sustainability is addressed in this work considering the costs of the supply chain in an industrial system based on the indices collected from the literature. Given scarcity of empirical evidence, this study raises the proposition that SSCM practices can be both environmentally necessary and good business in the context of emerging economies. Finally economic, social and environmental indicators appropriate to assess strategic decisions are proposed in the context of a conceptual model.

Nazih Gorji is a graduate student of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Mazandarn University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran. She is working on sustainability management in supply chain and waste management. She has presented some papers in international conferences and published technical reports.

Increase in environmental and social concerns associated with economic issues and confined production resources in supply chains made researchers to concentrate on design and development of sustainable supply chain. Consumption cycle is significant for coordinating supply chain elements in order to provide more benefit. In this paper, a strategic approach is proposed to investigate a three-level sustainable supply chain including supplier, customer and recovery center for a book store system. In this case, books as a commodity are sold to customers, and after a consumption cycle, are returned to the recovery center to be replenished for the next customers. Customers receive periodic discount as an incentive to return their used books to the recovery center and read more books. The process helps the culture of reading books and at the same time provides profit for supplier and cost reduction for customers. The sustainable effects are considered in environmental and long term cultural dimensions. Economic-environmental objective function aims at minimizing the operational costs, decreasing cutting trees to produce paper for books, and increasing the book reading culture for a society. Therefore, a multi-objective decision model is developed based on the interaction among supply chain levels and sustainability dimensions.