Staff Profiles

Associate Professor Sami KARA

Qualifications

Employment

Visiting Appointments

Awards

Professional Societies

• CIRP (International Academy for Production Engineering Research)
• CSIRO Sustainability Network

Teaching Areas

• Manufacturing Strategy
• Concurrent Product and Process Design
• Manufacturing Technology
• Production Planning and Control

Research Interests

Life Cycle Engineering

Assessment of technical component for re-use/recycling, life time modelling, design for disassembly, design for environment, logistics and reverse supply chain, environmental impact assessment, cleaner production.

Management

Project management, operations management, flexibility management, supply chain management.

Operations Research

Linear programming, mathematical modelling, simulation modelling, quantitative analysis.

Concurrent Engineering

Product and process design, design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA), quality function deployment (QFD), concurrent project management.

Professional Interests and Consulting

• Cooperative Research Centre for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems and Technologies. Consultant to industry in areas of sustainable product and process development, cleaner production, reverse logistics.

Selected Publications

Books, Chapters in Books

• KAEBERNICK H and KARA S, "Reuse and Recycling Technologies", Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Mechanical Design, John Wiley & Sons (2006).
• KARA S, KAEBERNICK H, IBBOTTSON S, "Using Design for Environment for Redesigning a Household Appliance", Innovation in Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Development, Eds. D. Brissaud, S. Tichkiewitch and P. Zwolinski, Springer Publications (2005).

Journal Papers

• KARA S, RUGRUNGRUANG F and KAEBERNICK H, "Simulation modelling of reverse logistics networks", International Journal of Production Economics, in print.
• MAZHAR MI, KARA S and KAEBERNICK H, "Remaining life estimation of used components in consumer products: life cycle data analysis by Weibull and artificial neural networks", Journal Operations Management, in print.
• KARA S and KAYIS B, "The effect of uncertainty and resource constraints on concurrent engineering projects", International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, in print.
• KARA S, MAZHAR MI, KAEBERNICK H and AHMED H, "Determining the reuse potential of components based on life cycle data", Annals of the CIRP, Vol 54(1) (2005).
• KARA S and KAYIS B, "Effect of learning on concurrent engineering projects", Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications Journal, Vol 3(5), September, pp 209-217 (2005).
• KARA S and KAYIS B, "Competing on capabilities—an analysis of supply chain flexibility in Australian manufacturing industry", International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, in print.
• KARA S, PORNPRASITPOL P and KAEBERNICK H, "A methodology for selective disassembly for End-of-Life (EOL) Products", Journal of Assembly Automation, Vol 25(2), pp 124-134 (2005).

Conference Papers

• KARA S, HONKE I and KAEBERNICK H, "An integrated framework for implementing sustainable product development", Proceedings of the EcoDesign 2005, 12-14 December, Tokyo, Japan (2005).
• HANAFI J, KARA S and KAEBERNICK H, "Comparative assessment to identify the characteristics of collectors in reverse logistics", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management, Bali-Indonesia, 15-17 December, pp L1-9 (2005).
• KARA S and KAEBERNICK H, "Using design for environment for redesigning a household appliance: a case study", Proceedings of the CIRP Seminar on Life Cycle Engineering, 3-5 April, Grenoble, France (2005).
• KARA S and MATHEW P, "On-line self paced learning scheme for First Year manufacturing technology course", Proceedings of the iCEER-2005 INEER Conference for Engineering Education and Research, 1-5 March, Taiwan (2005).
• MAZHAR IM, KARA S and KAEBERNICK H, "Reliability assessment for reuse of components in consumer products—a statistical and condition monitoring data analysis strategy", Proceedings of the 4th Australian Life Cycle Assessment Conference, 23-25 February, Sydney, Australia (2005).