Areas of Expertise

Assistant Professor Khojasteh's expertise includes Operations Research (OR), Production and Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Business Process Engineering. He has more than six years of working experience in industry and manufacturing companies. He was a Project Control Manager for three years in the project of constructing a high pressure fitting (used in oil and gas piping) manufacturing plant. He was also a Plant Manager in an industrial valves manufacturing company.

Teaching Interests

Assistant Professor Khojasteh teaches courses on Management Science and Operations Management. He also teaches Mathematics and Statistics.

Research

Dr. Khojasteh's current research interests focus on Operations Management, with special focus on Pull Production Control Systems and Just-In-Time (Toyota Production System). His recent paper was on developing a framework for pull production systems to improve the system performance which includes modeling and performance analysis of production control systems. His research interests also include Material Handling and Warehouse Optimization. He is currently the Topic Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Engineering and Industries (IJEI), a member of the Editor Board of the International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering (IJEME), and referee for several international journals (by Springer, Elsevier, etc).

Representative Publications

• Khojasteh-Ghamari Y. (2012) Warehouse Management: Productivity Improvement in Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems. In Manzini R. (Ed.), Warehousing in the Global Supply Chain: Advanced Models, Tools and Applications for Storage Systems, Springer: London
• Sato R. and Khojasteh-Ghamari Y., An integrated framework for card-based production control systems, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, (in press) Doi: 10.1007/s10845-010-0421-4
• Khojasteh-Ghamari Y., Developing a framework for performance analysis of a production process controlled by Kanban and CONWIP, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2012, 23 (1), pp. 61-71
• Khojasteh-Ghamari Y. and Sato R., Managing an assembly production process with a proper control policy, International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2011, 22 (1), pp. 2-25
• Khojasteh-Ghamari Y. (2009) A performance comparison between Kanban and CONWIP controlled assembly systems, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 20 (6), pp. 751-760
• Khojasteh-Ghamari Y., and Son J.D. (2008) Order picking problem in a multi-aisle automated warehouse served by a single storage/retrieval machine, International Journal of Information and Management Sciences, 19 (4), pp. 651-665
• Son J.D., Khojasteh-Ghamari Y. (2008) Optimal admission and pricing control problems in service industries with multiple servers and sideline profit, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 24 (4), pp. 325-342
• Khojasteh-Ghamari Y., and Wang S.Y. (2005) A genetic algorithm for order picking in automated storage and retrieval systems with multiple stock locations, International Journal of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, 4 (2), pp. 136-144

Education

Ph.D. in Engineering, University of Tsukuba
M.Sc. in Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba
M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University
B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology

Professional Associations

• Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
• Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association (JOMSA)
• European Operations Management Association (EurOMA)

E-mail

khojasteh@tuj.ac.jp

Office Hours

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