Part I: Technological Foundations
Professor Ted Lirn
National Taiwan Ocean University
Taiwan
Professor Raj Roy
City University of London
UK Professor Serzio Terzi
Politecnico di Milano
Italy Professor Marco Taisch
Politecnico di Milano
Italy Professor G Saravana Kumar
IIT Madras
India Dr U Chandrasekhar
Wipro 3D
India
Professor N Arunachalam
IIT Madras India
Part II: Business Models Professor Helen Rogers
Technical University of Nuremberg Georg Simon Ohm
Germany
Professor Fiona Lettice
University of East Anglia
UK
Professor Tim Baines Aston Business School UK
Professor M Naim
Cardiff Business School
UK
Professor Petri Pulli University of Oulu Finland
Professor P Wolf
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark
Professor E Ferrari
University of Insubria
Italy
Ramachandran S & Jeff Kavanaugh
Infosys Knowledge Institute
India/USA
Professor L Prakash Sai
IIT Madras
India
Part III: Cross-country Comparisons
Professor Shams Rahman
RMIT University
Australia Professor Amrik Sohal Monash University Australia Dr J Srai
University of Cambridge (Dept. of Eng. Institute for Manufacturing (IfM))
UK
Professor Vinod Singhal
Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller College of Business )
USA
Professor Min Zhang
Queen's Management School
Ireland Professor C Tang UCLA (Anderson School of Management) USA
Professor Ravi Shankar
IIT Delhi
India
Part IV: Evaluation Approaches and Readiness Assessment Dr Gavin, Lai
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
China Professor X Zhao CEIBS-GLP Centre for Innovation in Supply Chains and Services China
Professor N Subramanian
University of Sussex Business School
UK
Professor KD Thoben University of Bremen Germany
Professor M K Tiwari
IIT Kharagpur/NITIE
India
Dr Shankar Venugopal
Mahindra & Mahindra
India
About the Author: R K Amit is a Professor at Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras. He heads Decision Engineering & Pricing (DEEP) Lab that specializes in engineering the best decisions using the wisdom from game theory & mechanism design, optimization, and pricing with applications in operations management and manufacturing.
R P Sundarraj is a Professor at Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras and works on using behavioral economics and optimization modeling for various application areas such as cloud computing, technology adoption and supply chain.
Kulwant S Pawar is a professor with University of Nottingham's Business School and works in the area of comparative analysis of logistics & supply chain networks and the interplay between emerging technologies (such as 3DP & Digital Manufacturing) on supply chain operations and business models.
Svetan Ratchev is Director of the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and head of the Nottingham Centres for Aerospace Manufacturing and Precision Manufacturing. His expertise includes manufacturing systems, assembly automation, process modelling and simulation, manufacturing informatics and precision manufacture.