Dr. S G Ponnambalam

Designation : Professor Higher Academic Grade
School / Centre : School of Mechanical Engineering
Department : Manufacturing Engineering

Educational Details

Bharathiar University, Coimbatore

Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Graduated in 1995

Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai

M.E
Industrial Engineering
Graduated in 1988

The Institution of Engineers (India)

AMIE
Mechanical Engineering
Graduated in 1982

Post Doctoral Experiences


Research Details

Areas of Specialization
  • Manufacturing Systems
  • Scheduling
  • Metaheuristics
  • Swarm Robotics
  • Supply Chain

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Completed Funded Project Details

Title Funding Agency
Effect of multiple capacity cost rate on costing sustainment of production environment Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia-Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS/1/2018/TK03/UMP/02/34)
A study on data-driven approach for rotating machinery fault diagnosis using machine learning technique Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia-Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS/1/2018/TK03/UMP/02/34)
Investigation of the trajectory tracking error of the autonomous non-holonic nonlinear uncertain dynamics with the effect of the weight transfer disturbance Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia-Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS/1/2018/TK08/UMP/02/1)
Robust supply chain risk management models to optimize total supply chain cost in an uncertain environment through soft computing University Malaysia Pahang Research Grant (RDU1803139)
Development of a task- oriented, auction-based task allocation framework for a heterogeneous multirobot system University Malaysia Pahang Research Grant (RDU1803139)

Books / Book Chapters Published Details

Title Publisher Published Year
Industry 4.0 and Hyper-Customized Smart Manufacturing Supply Chains IGI Global, USA 2019
Adaptive Lean and Green (L&G) Manufacturing Approach in Productivity and Carbon Management Enhancement CRC Press 2021
Multi-Objective Optimization of Economic and Environmental Aspects of a Three-Echelon Supply Chain 2019 IGI Global 2019
Evaluation of Influence of Principles Involved in Industry 4.0 Over Coal Industries Using TISM IGI Global 2019
Application of particle swarm optimization to solve robotic assembly line balancing problems Elsevier 2017

Other Information

Editorial Experience : Associate Editor/International Journals 1. Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Press, USA, ISSN: 1545-5955 (2007-2012) 2. Associate Editor, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier, Netherlands, ISSN: 2210-65