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Professor Ashraf Labib

Ashraf Labib is a Professor of Operations and Decision Analysis at Portsmouth Business School. He has also been the Associate Dean (Research) of the Business School and Director of the DBA Programme. His main research interest lies in the field of Strategic Operations Management and Decision Analysis. This includes Manufacturing, Reliability Engineering and Maintenance Systems, Multiple Criteria Decision-Analysis and Applications of Artificial Intelligence such as Fuzzy Logic.  

Prior to joining Portsmouth Business School, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Manufacturing Division of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology). He holds a PhD and MSc from Univ. of Birmingham, an MBA from the American University in Cairo, and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Univ. of Cairo. He is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society (ORS), a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET) and a Chartered Engineer. He is also a member of the British Standards (BSI), a member of the Committee of Professors in OR (COPIOR) and a member of the Committee of Professors in Information Systems (CISP). He has also been elected to be on the Research Advisory Board of the ABS (Association of Business Schools).

He has published 110-refereed papers in professional journals and international conferences proceedings. He has received three awards 2008, 2000, and 1999 “Highly Commended Paper Awards” from the Emerald Literati Network, MCB Press. He has served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions SMC (Systems, Man, and Cybernetics). He was a guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Logistics Information Management in 1999 in the area of Crisis Management.  He has been active in attracting research-funded projects from EPSRC, ESRC, European Commission and industry. He has also been involved in teaching modules to various industries such as the Royal Mail, Qatar Gas, SABEC, Glasgow Caledonian, and USA. He has collaborated with the NSF funded IMS Centre in running industrial/research workshops on E-Maintenance/E-Manufacturing in both the UK and USA.

Professor Labib has been involved in the design, development, and implementation of Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMSs), Stock Control Spares and Ordering Systems for major companies in the automotive sector such as Land Rover, Rockwell, Peugeot Talbot and Federal Mogul  - Ferodo. Collaboration and consultancy on Maintenance Best Practice with companies including; Rolls Royce (Aero engines); the Royal Mail; Rockwell, Meritor Light Vehicle Systems, and Proctor and Gamble. He has acted as a consultant to a number of industries in the U.K., and the Middle East. He was the Director of Studies of 5 PhDs to completion.

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 [1] Received the 2008 “Highly Commended Award”  from the Emerald Literati Network.