Advances in Manufacturing Technology and Management

Dr. Ranganath M. Singari is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Production & Industrial Engineering and heads the Department of Design, Delhi Technological University, India. He is a graduate in Industrial Production Engineering from Karnataka University. He completed his M.Tech in Computer Technology & Applications and Ph.D. from the Department of Production Engineering from University of Delhi, India. He has more than 60 international publications in conference and reputed journals. He is also a reviewer for reputed journals. Dr. Singari has organised several international conferences, seminars/workshops, industry-institute interactions and 6 FDP/SDP/STTP. He also serves as Chairman, Production Engineering, Skill India Programme, DTTE, Delhi. He is an expert member of several selection committees for technical, teaching and administrative positions. His research interest is materials, manufacturing, industrial management, production management, CAD/CAM, supply chain management, multi-criteria decision making and sustainable lean manufacturing. He has 25 years of research and teaching experience. Dr. Prashant K. Jain is currently Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur. He obtained his B. E. (Mechanical Engineering) from Dr. H. S. Gour University, Sagar, M. E. (Advanced Production Systems) from SATI, Vidisha and Ph. D. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi. He also has served at IIT Delhi as Project Scientist and at Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi (now Delhi Technological University, Delhi) as Lecturer. His major research interests include rapid prototyping / additive manufacturing, geometric modelling, CAD/CAM integration, computational geometry, rapid prototyping and tooling. He has more than 85 publications to his credit, published in international peer reviewed journals, national and international conferences inIndia and abroad.Dr. Harish Kumar is currently Assistant Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi. He obtained his B. Tech. (Mechanical & Automation Engineering) and Ph.D. from GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi. His major research interests include mechanical measurement and metrology and composites. He has more than 35 publications to his credit, published in international peer reviewed journals. He has served as Scientist in CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi during 2007-2017 and as a guest researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA in 2016. He has been serving as editor of several peer reviewed journals.

• Development of Wideband Low-Profile Magneto-Electric Dipole Aerial for Ku-Band.- A study of active abrasive particle for mechanism of material removal in Pulsed Ball End Magnetorheoloical Finishing process and a time based study for finishing of EN-31.- Comparison of wear behaviour of Al-12.5Si alloy reinforced with ZrO2 using spray deposition and stir casting technique.