Special Issue – Product Design and Engineering

Special issue on: Collaborative and Multi-disciplinary Product Design

Special Issue for 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017)

     This special issue is a collection of refereed articles selected from the 13th International Industrial Engineering Conference (IIEC 2017). The initial selection was made by Dr. Hamed Fazlollahtabar who also wrote the following description. The accepted articles were reviewed going through the usual reviewing process of IJOR. Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri Editor-in-Chief &nbs...

Special Issue: Design of Bioreactor Systems for Tissue Engineering

Tissue engineering and, more broadly, regenerative medicine is moving into a phase where we are seeing potential therapies moving 'slowly but surely' from the laboratory into the clinic, i.e., from research to the clinic and into manufacturing. The numbers of cells required for cell therapy protocols can vary from tens of millions, to billions [1], and it is widely considered that such cell num...

Special Issue on Cognitive Engineering

Computer-based systems have changed the nature of the work undertaken at the human-machine interface. More than ever before, operators of complex sociotechnological systems are working in a multidimensional information space. Within aviation, the development of the glass cockpit was the forerunner of things to come. Glass interfaces now pervade all areas of aviation systems. Computerization has...

Special Issue on Design and Development: Sourcing By Design: Product Complexity and the Supply Chain

This paper focuses on the connection between product complexity and vertical integration using original empirical evidence from the auto industry. A rich literature has addressed the choice between internal production and external sourcing of components in the auto industry. More recent literature has developed the concept of product architecture as another choice variable that may be one of th...