Dr Ilias Oraifige

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Job title: Head of Engineering

Email: i.oraifige@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332593207
Room: MS103

Recent publications

Oraifige, I., Wu, M., Sugiono. (2012) Employ the Taguchi Method to Optimize BPNN's Architectures in Car Body Design System. American Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 2012, 2(4): 140-151.
Oraifige, I., Wu, M., Chen, J. (2012) Application of the Back Propagation Neural Network Model on the Supplier Evaluation in E-manufacturing Environment. Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 16-19 pp 174-177
Oraifige, A., Wu, M., Mills, B., and Oraifige I. (2011), "An Online Intelligent System for teaching Design Technologies to Engineering Students", Journal of the Higher Education Academy, Volume 6 Issue 1, pp. 40-51.
Garza-Reyes, J.A., Oraifige, I., Soriano-Meier, H., Forrester, P.L., Harmanto, D. (2011), "The development of a lean park homes production process using process flow and simulation methods", Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 23 Iss: 2 pp. 178 - 197
Garza-Reyes, J.A., Parkar, H.S., Oraifige, I., Soriano-Meier, H., Harmanto, D. (2011), "An empirically-exploratory study of the status of lean manufacturing in India", Int. J. Business Excellence, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp.395-412.
Harmanto, D. and Oraifige. I.(2011), "Optimisation design cooling channel for injection moulding using CFD and FEA simulation techniques", Accepted for publication in the 21^st International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM), Taiwan, 26-29 June.
Harmanto, D., Bousbaine, A. and Oraifige, I., "Integrated framework of Automotive body surface using FEA technique", QiR Conference 2011, Bali, Indonesia 2011.
Garza-Reyes, J.A., Al-Jasser, A., Oraifige, I., Soriano-Meier, H., Forrester, P.L. (2011), "A general evaluation of Total Quality Management (TQM) in the Kuwait Oil industry", 21^st International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM), Taiwan, 26-29 June

Experience in Industry

Senior Logistics Controller
BTR Automotive - Coventry, Air Suspension Systems

I was one of the key persons within the logistics department of the above company who supplied products to the automotive industry for period of nearly two years. My role involved the production planning of various units within the company. The unit that I was responsible for its production plans had a turnover of £12 million a year. At the end of my work period there I improved the customer deliver performance from 60% to 98% and I reduced the arrears from £100,000 to £10,000. This was regarded, by the company's management, to be a remarkable achievement, which was never achieved in the history of the company.

My role also involved expediting; raising, issuing and progressing scheduled production orders. The production planning process was the results of using BaanIV MPS/MRP system, which I became expert in using and manipulating, and hence was responsible for its running and maintenance.

Working for this company provided me with the experience and knowledge to deal with such demanding industry.

Design Engineer
Nautic Steel Ltd - Tamworth

I was responsible for the design of a 500-ton auto hydraulic press for use in the production of high-pressure pipefitting for the oil industry. All the design work and technical drawings produced was carried out on AutoCAD based on complex stress analysis calculations that I had to carry out.

I was also responsible for the design of the control unit required for the automatic control of the designed press.

The Automated Press in now fully operational at the company's premises.

Software/Design Engineer
T K Parkers Ltd - Hockley - Birmingham

Developed a number of software programs for various applications to suit customers' requirements.

Current Activities / Links with Industry

My current role involves continuous engagement with industry in many ways including development of new programmes, short courses, consultancy, KTPs, etc.

Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology

School: School of Technology

Subject Area: Engineering

My role as the head of subject for Engineering and Built Environment involves the management of 25+ full time staff, associate lecturers and technical staff plus over 850 students.

Teaching responsibilities

Involved in the delivery of various modules at all levels including: Engineering Science, Industrial control systems; Design for manufacture; Advanced mechanical Design; 2D/3D modelling; Management of lean organisations.

Professional interests

Highly qualified engineer with excellent achievements and successful industrial experience. Self-motivated, organised, articulate and determined to succeed. Possesses good communication skills, energy and thorough knowledge of new technology.

Research interests

Current research work involves virtual reality and finite element analysis. The main aim of the research is to investigate and develop tools to facilitate the integration of virtual reality and finite elements analysis, and hence providing real time design analysis capabilities in virtual environment. Other Areas of Research Involves: Applying Web-based Technology to Support Design and Manufacture including production optimisation; Touch and Force Feedback for Virtual Reality and Virtual Reality Environment for interactive Product Design.

• H. R. Arabnia, X. Hu, A. Muzy, I. A. Oraifige, A. M. G. Solo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV'07), 2007

• Oraifige I A et al. The Path to Productivity: The progress of Work Based Learning Strategies in Higher Education Engineering Programmes. New Engineering Foundation. In partnership with The Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre and FDF. January 2007. pp 1-108.

• Jian Chen , Mianhong Wu , Ilias Oraifige, "Investigate an intelligent supplier evaluation system in e-manufacturing", International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services, Vol. 2, No.3-4/2010, p281-293, 2010

• Sugiono, Mian Hong Wu, Ilias Oraifige (2010), "Taguchi Method Based Basic Car Body Optimisation", Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automation & Computing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 11 September 2010

• Garza-Reyes, J.A., Oraifige, I., Soriano-Meier, H. and Rocha-Lona, L. (2010), "An empirical application of Six Sigma and DMAIC methodology for business process improvement", Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM), California, US, July 12-14.

• J. Chen, M H Wu, I. Oraifige, "Application of the BP Neural Network Model on the Supplier Evaluation in e-Manufacturing Environment". Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 16-19 (2009) pp 174-177

• Yongming Yang, Dani Harmanto, Ilias Oraifige, Mian Hong Wu, "Developing Intelligent Simulation System for multi-AGV on line Jobs assignment & Routine Planning", 15^th International Conference on Automation & Computing, Luton, UK, 2009.

• J. Chen, M H Wu, I. Oraifige, "Application of the BP Neural Network Model on the Supplier Evaluation in e-Manufacturing Environment", International conference of e-ENGDET2009, Shenyang, P R China, September 2009.

• Rao B.K, Oraifige I. A, Obeid N. A. (2008), "Failure Diagnosis through Virtual Reality(VR)", 21^st International Congress and Exhibition - Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM 2008), Prague, Czech Republic, 11^th - 13^th June 2008.

• Jin L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R, Zhigang Wen. Distributed Virtual Manufacturing for SMEs. International Journal of Engineering Simulation. Submitted April 2007.

• Onwunaje D and Oraifige I. (2007), "Instigating Business Process Improvement as a Foundation for Productivity Increase at a Small to Medium Sized Enterprise", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2007), pp.153 - 157.

• Onwunaje D and Oraifige I. (2007),"Using lessons of Knowledge Management and Process Improvement tools to Increase Productivity at a small to Medium Sized Enterprise", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2007), pp.158 -162.

• Jin L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R, Zhigang Wen. Using Web-based VR for Collaborative Virtual Design and Manufacturing. Accepted for publication in the WORLDCOMP' 07, Las Vegas, 25-28 June 2007.

• Jin L, Oraifige I A, Zhigang Wen. Distributed VR for Collaborative Design and Manufacturing. Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference Information Visualisation IV '07. IEEE, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 792-797. ISBN 9780769529004

• Jin L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. (2006) A Web-based machining process monitoring system for E-manufacturing implementation. Journal of Zhejiang University - Science A. Vol 7 (9). pp 1476-1473.

• Oraifige I A. Simulation Techniques Implementation to Reduce Lead Times in SMEs. WORLDCOMP'06, Las Vegas 26-29 June 2006. ISBN 1 60132 010 8. pp297-304.

• Disi L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. Breaking the barrier-a pilot programme for high frame rate interactive engineering simulation. International Journal of Computer Aided Geometric Design. Submitted December 2005.

• Disi L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. Virtual Hands in Computer Aided Finite Element Analysis. MIT Press. Re-submitted December 2005.

• Disi L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. FEA Touch-An engineering simulation application with force feedback. Human Computer Interaction Journal. Submitted November 2005.

• Disi L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. Rapid generation of geometric deformation based colour coding. Image and Vision Computing Journal. Submitted November 2005.

• Disi L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. Reducing FEA time consumption with real-time circular processing model. Computer Aided Design Journal. Submitted October 2005.

• Oraifige I A. Applying Simulation to Reduce Lead-Time in SMEs- Industrial Based Case Studies. Proceedings of NAFEMS World Congress 2005, Malta. Published, 16-20^th May 2005

• Disi L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. Application of Stiffness Matrix Pre-inversion Algorithm in Real-time FEA. International Journal of Virtual Reality. Submitted, Jan 2005

• Disi L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. An Interface for Haptic Interaction and Engineering Simulation. The Journal of Virtual Environment. Submitted, Jan 2005

• Jin L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R, Lister P. Distributed Virtual Manufacturing for SMEs. Journal of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. Submitted, 10^th Jul 2004

• Disi L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. Real-time Finite Element Analysis With Virtual Hands. Journal of Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG), Feb 2004. Vol 12, PP 97-104. ISSN: 1213-6972

• Shi J, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. Adding Haptic Feedback to Engineering Simulation. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies - Dublin. Ireland. PP 237-241 ISBN 0-9544145-2-7. Published, 24^th Sep 2003

• Disi L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. Usage of Virtual Hands in Computer Aided Finite Element Analysis. Proceedings of Num3D-3D Solid Digitising & Modelling 3D - Paris, France. Published, 23^rd Apr 2003.

• Jin L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R, Lister P. The Interactive Web-based Temple of Heaven. Web 3D. London, UK: Edited by S Dredge, Lawrence King Publishing Ltd., PP 70-75 ISBN 185669-283-3, Published, 2003

• Oraifige I A, Hall F R. Virtual Finite Element Analysis. Proceedings of the 15th International COMADEM Conference - Birmingham - UK. Published, 2^nd Aug 2002. ISBN 0-9541307-0-7.

• Jin L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R, Lister P. Using Web-based VR for Interactive 3D Applications- the Temple of Heaven (Awarded First Prize for Most Creative and Immersive Web-based Virtual World). Adobe Company Publication. Published, 2^nd Jan 2002

• Jin L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R, Lister P. Distributed VR-Based Simulation for Manufacturing. Proceedings of 13th European Simulation Symposium- Marseille - France. Published, 18^th Oct 2001.

• Jin L, Oraifige I A, Hall F R, Lister P. E-manufacturing in Networked Virtual Environments (Awarded Best Paper). Proceedings of IEEE SMC, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics International Conference - Arizona USA. Vol 3 PP 1845-1849. ISBN 0-7803-7087-2. Published, 7^th Oct 2001

• Jin L, Wen Z, Oraifige I A, Hall F R. Adorning VRML Worlds With Environmental Aspects. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 21(1), Published, 2001.

• Jin L, Peng, Q, Oraifige I A, Hall F R, Lister P. Using Web-based VR Technology to Support Design and Manufacture, Proceedings of the 6^th CACS Conference, Loughborough University, UK. Published 23^rd Sept 2000.

• Oraifige I A. Simulation, Control and Coordination of Hierarchical Structures in Integrated Manufacturing Systems. PhD Thesis. UK. Published 30^th Sep 1998

• Oraifige I A, Zakeri A, Gough N E. A Visual Environment Software for Real Time Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems. Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Computers & Industrial Eng. - Cairo. Published, 20^th Dec 1997

• Oraifige I A, Zakeri A, Gough N E. On-Line Monitoring of FMS Operations. Proceedings of the 13th ISPE/IEE International Conference on CAD/CAM Robotics & Factories of FUTURE. USA. Published, 15^th Dec 1997

• Oraifige I A, Zakeri A, Gough N E. A Comparative Study of General Purpose Versus Specialised Simulation Software Methods. IMC-14 Trinity College, Dublin. Ireland. Published, 3^rd Sep 1997

• Oraifige I A, Zakeri A, Gough N E. A Decision Support Tool for Co-ordination and Control of FMS Operations. 32nd International MATADOR Conference. UK. Published, 10^th Jul 1997

• Oraifige I A, Zakeri A, Gough N E. Design and Development of a Monitoring System to Aid Dynamic Scheduling. 32nd International MATADOR Conference. UK. Published, 10^th Jul 1997

• Oraifige I A, Iliev O L, Dimirovski G M, Gough N E, Zakeri A. Two Level Control System for FMS- Object Oriented Approach. Invited Session - Orlando, USA. Published, 1997

• Oraifige I A, Gough N E, Iliev O L, Dimirovski G D. Discrete Event Oriented Modelling of Intelligent Communication Protocols. Proceedings of Eleventh International Conference on Systems Engineering. USA. Published, 9^th Jul 1996

• Oraifige I A, Zakeri A, Gough N E. Development of An Integrated Simulation System for the Design of Two Station Flexible Manufacturing System. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Systems and Technologies (AMPST96). Bradford, UK. Published, 26^th Mar 1996

• Oraifige I A. Quality Controlled Pipe-Fitting Production System. MSc Dissertation. UK. Published 31^st Jul 1992

• Oraifige I A, Eraifej F A, Kempson J. The Commissioning of Flexible Manufacturing Cells. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Metal Cutting. China. Published, Apr 1989

• Oraifige I A. The Design, Development and Commissioning of a Flexible Manufacturing Cell. BEng Degree Project. Published, 31^st Jul 1988

International Experience

One of the responsibilities within my role is international recruitment which invloves development of international links with various institutions around the world.

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Undergraduate qualifications

BEng Engineering with Commendation, University of Central England

Postgraduate qualifications

MSc in Industrial Logistics, University of Central England
Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Wolverhampton

Research qualifications

PhD in Simulation, Control and Coordination of Hierarchical Structures, University of Wolverhampton

Research posts

Institution	Project	Dates
University of Wolverhampton	Research Fellow	1999-2000

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