R. Panneerselvam, Ph.D, served as a Professor of Operations and Systems, Department of Management Studies at School of Management, Pondicherry University. He possesses a total of 41 years of teaching and research experience at Anna University and Pondicherry University put together. He served as the chairman of Computer Society of India (Pondicherry Chapter) and life member of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering and Computer Society of India. Prof. Panneerselvam has published more than 100 research articles in leading national and international journals and has authored 21 textbooks.
P. Sivasankaran, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology, Puducherry. Earlier, he worked in the Mechanical Engineering Department of engineering colleges, including Anna University for 13 years. Prof. Sivasankaran has published many research articles in leading national and international journals and has authored seven textbooks. His areas of research interest include Assembly line balancing, Unrelated parallel machines scheduling, Simulation, Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Mechanical system design, JIT manufacturing, TQM, etc. He holds five design patents to his credit.