Lean Manufacturing in Latin America

Jorge

Luis García Alcaraz is a full-time researcher at the

Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Department at the Autonomous

University of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. He received an MSc in Industrial

Engineering from the Colima Technological Institute (Mexico), a Ph.D. in Industrial

Engineering Sciences from Ciudad Juárez Technological Institute (Mexico), a

Ph.D. in Innovation in Product Engineering and Industrial Process from the University

of La Rioja (Spain), a Ph.D. in Sciences and Industrial Technologies from the

Public University of Navarre (Spain), a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering for

University of Zaragoza (Spain) and a Postdoc in Manufacturing Process from

University of La Rioja (Spain). In addition, his main research areas are

related to the multicriteria decision-making process and techniques applied to

lean manufacturing, production process, and supply chain modeling. He is a

founding member of the Mexican Society of Operation Research and an active Mexican

Academy of Industrial Engineering member. Dr. García is a National Researcher

recognized by the National Council of Science & Technology of Mexico

(CONACYT) as Level III. Also, Dr. García is an author/coauthor in around 168 papers

published in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports or Scopus, 47

book chapters indexed in Scopus and 29 conference papers indexed in Scopus. He

has attended more than 150 international conferences and congresses around the

world.

Moreover, Dr. García has

supervised over 50 bachelor theses, 18 master theses, and 13 doctoral theses. He

holds thirteen international patents and one industrial design in Mexico and

Spain. Also, Dr. García is the author/editor of 23 books published by

international publishers such as Springer and IGI Global, all of which relate

to lean manufacturing, its tools and techniques, kaizen, supply chain, and

just-in-time philosophies. Finally, Dr. García won the Chihuahua State Science

and Technology Award in 2015. He is a member of several doctoral committees in

universities from Mexico, Colombia, and Spain. ORCID:

0000-0002-7092-6963, Scopus Author ID: 55616966800. Web of

Science ResearcherID: N-9124-2013

Guillermo

Cortes Robles has a master's in industrial engineering from

the Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba and a Ph.D. in Industrial Systems from the

Institute National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. Today, he is a professor

of engineering science at the Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico-Instituto

Tecnologico de Orizaba in the postgraduate school, specifically in the

management engineering master and the engineering Sciences Ph.D. program. His

research interests are applying theTRIZ theory and other approaches (e.g.,

knowledge management, decision support systems, genetic algorithms, and creativity

techniques, among other technologies) to accelerate the innovation process. He

is the President of the Mexican TRIZ association (AMETRIZ). Dr. Cortes was the

technical leader of more than 15 projects and published several articles in

different journals. He also was the director of 25 master theses and five

doctoral dissertations. ORCID Number: 0000-0001-8857-7143

Arturo Realyvásquez Vargas is

a full-time Department of Industrial Engineering professor at Tecnológico

Nacional de Mexico/Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana in Mexico. He received a

master's degree in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences

from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez

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