Dr. Vishal S. Sharma is currently working as Associate Professor at School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering at University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to his joining at WITS University he was Professor at the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar. He obtained his bachelor’s degree (Production Engineering) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur in the year 1992; Masters in Mechanical (Production) Engineering from Punjab University Chandigarh in 1998; and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Kurukshetra University in the year 2005. He also received a postdoctoral fellowship from ENSAM Cluny, France in 2010. He has three years of industrial exposure and 23 years of teaching experience at Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India. He has published more than 70 scientific papers in international journals and conferences, and edited morethan 10 books and proceedings. His current research interests include additive manufacturing and machining, condition monitoring and industrial IOT/Industry 4.0.Dr. Uday S. Dixit is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Guwahati. He received his bachelor’s degree (Mechanical Engineering) from IIT Roorkee in 1987; and his masters and Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) from IIT Kanpur in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He has published over 200 scientific papers in international journals and conferences and edited more than 12 books and proceedings. He has also undertaken 19 research and consultancy projects. In addition to developing course material on mechatronics for IGNOU, and on engineering mechanics for NPTEL, he has produced QIP course material in the area of “Finite Element Method in Engineering and its applications in manufacturing”, and “Introduction to Micro-manufacturing Technologies”. His research interests include plasticity, metal forming, laser-based manufacturing, finite element modeling, and optimization. He has authored/edited more than 15 books and proceedings.Dr. Knut Sørby is a Professor at Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondhiem, Norway. He completed PhD and Post-doc fellowship from NTNU, Norway. He is Research Adviser at Sandvik Teeness. Prof. Sørby is having keen interest in machining processes. He has worked on preparation of control programs for multi-axis machines, kinematics for multi-axis machines, efficient processing of complex shaped products, tool life modelling, machining cost models, optimization of machining efficiency, and milling and turning of nickel based alloys with ceramic cutting tools. He has developed vibration absorbers for cutting tools: design and optimization of damping systems for machining processes, modeling and design of damping systems for multiple modes of vibration in boring bars, theoretical and experimental modal analysis, numerical methods for simulation of time response, instrumentation and vibration monitoring, and systems for active vibration suppression. He is Board member of the Norwegian association for machining technology - Technical expert for Norwegian Accreditation in laboratory accreditation.Dr. Arvind Bhardwaj received his Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from the Punjab University, India in 1988, and PhD from the Kurukshetra University, India in 2006. He is working as a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (An Institute of National Repute established by Government of India), Punjab, India. He is also looking after the responsibility of Dean Research and Consultancy. He has one years of industrial and more than 27 years of teaching experience. His areasof research are supply chain management, operations management, optimisation of production systems and ergonomics. He has published more than 100 articles in various international journals and conferences.Dr. Rajeev Trehan is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar. He holds a PhD degree in Industrial Engineering. He has more than three years’ experience in industry and 17 years’ experience of teaching UG and PG students. He has guided 20 MTech thesis and having three PhD students. His area of interest is quality management, advanced manufacturing and has published more than 15 articles on these topics in different journals and conferences.
