Sule, Dr. Dileep R.

Contact Info

Areas of Specialization

Production scheduling and control
Operations research
Manufacturing systems
Simulation
Statistical methods in quality control

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Research Areas/Interests

• Consultant, Inland Fisher Guide Plant, Monroe, LA 1994, 1993
• Consultant, Law Office of Campbell, Campbell & Johnson, Minden, LA 1993
• Expert Witness for Campbell, Campbell & Johnson, Minden, LA 1993
• Consultant, Law Office of James Lambert, Lafayette, LA 1992
• Consultant, Stowe Woodward, Ruston, LA 1992
• Expert Witness, GS Roofing, Shreveport, LA 1990
• Consultant, Century Printing, Monroe, LA 1989
• Consultant, C-Bart, Shreveport, LA 1987
• Consultant, International Paper Co., Bastrop, LA 1987
• Consultant, United Steel Workers Union, TX 1986
• Consultant, DOE, State of LA, with Claud Irby, 1985
• Consultant, Columbia Chemical, Monroe, LA, develop and teach a quality control course for the company, 1983-84
• Consultant, Thiokol, Inc., Shreveport, LA, statistical analysis, storeroom analysis, 1977-83
• Consultant, Olinkraft, Inc., West Monroe, LA, evaluation of equipment capacities, manpower requirements, mathematical modeling and simulation, 1976-79
• Consultant, Baker Brush Co., Farmerville, LA, designed and developed a computerized system to give cost accounting data and progress status for each order; determined in-progress inventory, worker utilization, absentee rate, machine utilization, etc., 1976
• Consultant, Duraflake South, Inc., Simsboro, LA, improved productivity and machine utilization throughout the plant; designed an economic system to minimize loss in cutting; designed preventive maintenance program; developed an improved maintenance policy, 1975-77
• Consultant, Army Ammunition Plant, Shreveport, LA, developed GPSS programs to balance production lines and determine their sensitivity, 1975-76
• Consultant, Delta Industries, Monroe, LA, developed balanced assembly lines for trailer and camper production, 1972

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Publications

• Textbook: Industrial Scheduling, PWS Publishing, 1997
• Textbook: Manufacturing Facilities, Location, Planning and Design, 2nd ed, PWS Publishing, 1994
• "Assessment, Transfer and Management of Technology in Healthcare," (with Kenneth Gardner), Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Management of Technology, Miami, FL, 1994
• "Heuristic Method for a Single Machine Scheduling Problem," Vol 1, No 2: International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 1994.
• "Heuristic to Minimize Throughput Time on a NC Machine," Vol 1, No 3: International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 1994
• "Engineering Project Team Formation: A Similarity Co-Efficient Approach," (with Srinivasaraghavan Rajagopalan), Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Management of Technology, Miami, FL, 1994
• "Integrated Decision Models for Concurrent Engineering," (with Kannan Venkatesh, S. Rajagopalan, Dulio Furtado), Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Technology, Miami, FL,. 1994
• "Distributor's Pallet Loading Problem", Vol 1 No 1; International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 1994
• "Manpower Assignment Strategies in Serial Lines with Limited Personnel: Evaluation of Pull- Push Rules," with Wayne Norris), Vol 22 No 3, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1992
• "Optional Robot Path Determination Using Linear Programming," (with Shukla and Furtado), Proceedings of 14th annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1992
• "A Heuristic Procedure for Component Scheduling in Printed Circuit Pack Sequencers," Vol 30, No 5, International Journal of Production Research, 1992
• "Job Sequencing to Minimize Tool Changeovers in Flexible Manufacturing," Vol 3, No 1, International Journal of Production Planning and Control, 1992
• "Computerized Facility Layout Design," with Reza Ziai, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1991
• "A Present Value Approach to Determine Optimum Project Duration," with Bruce Chow, Vol 37, No 2, Engineering Economist, 1992
• "Batch Scheduling for Limited Capacity Fix Period Process Problem," with Sanjay Saxena, Vol 3, No 1, Production Planning and Control, 1992
• "Machine Capacity Planning in Group Technology," Vol 29, No 9, International Journal of Production Research, 1991
• "A Generalized Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) Simulation ," with Kerry Figiel, Proceedings Winter Simulation Conference, New Orleans, 1990

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