Dr Anna Lassila
Lecturer in Operations Management
Department: Business and management
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 4171
- E-mail: A.Lassila@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
BSc in Production Engineering, MSc in Advanced Engineering, PhD in Operational Research
Research Interests
- Production planning and control
- Computer simulation
- Design and analysis of manufacturing systems
- Fractal and biological manufacturing systems
Teaching Interests
- Operations management
- Supply chain management
- System modelling and simulation
Biography
Publications:
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila, A. M. (2009) Methodology for dynamic scheduling and control in biological manufacturing systems. Accepted for publication in International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila, A. M. (2006) An integrated approach for shop floor configuration in fractal manufacturing systems. International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2, 2, 109-123.
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila, A. M. (2004) Layout design in fractal organizations. International Journal of Production Research, 42, 17, 3529-3550.
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila A. M. (2007) Intelligent decentralised scheduling in a biological manufacturing system environment. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing (ICRM2007). 17-19 September 2007, Nottingham, UK.
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila A. M. (2005) Configuration of manufacturing resources using the fractal cell concept. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing (ICRM2005). 12-14 September 2005, Guangzhou, China.
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila, A. M. (2005) Decentralised scheduling in biological manufacturing systems. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2005). 18-20 July 2005, Bilbao, Spain.
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila, A. M. (2004) Methodology for distributed real-time scheduling and control in biological manufacturing systems. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Manufacturing & Management (PCMM2004). 8-10 December 2004, Gold Coast, Australia.
- Lassila, A. M., Saad, S. M., Perera, T., Koch, T. and Chrobot, J. (2004) Modelling and simulation of human-centred assembly systems - a real case study. Proceedings of the 6th IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing and Services (BASYS04). 27-29 September 2004, Vienna, Austria, 159/2005, pp. 405-412.
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila, A. M. (2004) Flexibility study of fractal layouts - Part 2. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2004). 7-9 September 2004, Sheffield, UK, pp. 209-215.
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila, A. M. (2004) Flexibility study of fractal layouts - Part 1. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2004). 12-14 July 2004, Toronto, Canada.
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila, A. M. (2003) Layout design in fractal organisations. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Production Research (ICPR-17). 3-7 August 2003, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
- Saad, S. M. and Lassila, A. M. (2002) Sequencing for mixed-model assembly lines with bottleneck resources using tabu search. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2002). 15-17 July 2002, Dresden, Germany, pp. 664-673.
