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El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
38
Citations
5196
World Ranking
8117
National Ranking
100

Overview

El-Houssaine Aghezzaf is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Engineering, with a significant concentration on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Other notable subfields include Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientist's work encompasses several key topics including Manufacturing Process and Optimization, Digital Transformation in Industry, Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms, Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization, Assembly Line Balancing Optimization, and Reliability and Maintenance Optimization.

Aghezzaf has published extensively across multiple venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • International Journal of Production Research
  • Procedia CIRP
  • The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
  • International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine

Recent publications highlight diverse applications of optimization and maintenance problems as well as manufacturing process improvements. Notable recent papers are:

  • "Integrated imperfect multimission selective maintenance and repairpersons assignment problem," 2020, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • "Towards Safe and Efficient Unmanned Aircraft System Operations: Literature Review of Digital Twins' Applications and European Union Regulatory Compliance," 2023, Drones
  • "Optimization of the integrated fleet-level imperfect selective maintenance and repairpersons assignment problem," 2020, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
  • "Base part centered assembly task precedence generation," 2020, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
  • "The role of equipment flexibility in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)-driven process improvement," 2022, Procedia CIRP

Throughout their career, Aghezzaf has collaborated frequently with a range of co-authors. Prominent collaborators include Johannes Cottyn, Steven Hoedt, Dieter Claeys, Abdelhakim Khatab, and Jiaqi Zhao.

Best Publications

  • An integrated production and preventive maintenance planning model

    El Houssaine Aghezzaf;Mohamed Anouar Jamali;Daoud Ait-Kadi

  • Modeling inventory routing problems in supply chains of high consumption products

    El Houssaine Aghezzaf;Birger Raa;Hendrik Van Landeghem

  • Capacity planning and warehouse location in supply chains with uncertain demands

    El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • Capacity planning and warehouse location in supply chains with uncertain demands

    El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • A practical solution approach for the cyclic inventory routing problem

    Birger Raa;El Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • Integrated production planning and preventive maintenance in deteriorating production systems

    El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Najib M. Najid

  • Optimising part feeding in the automotive assembly industry: deciding between kitting and line stocking

    Veronique Limère;Hendrik Van Landeghem;Marc Goetschalckx;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • Selective maintenance optimization when quality of imperfect maintenance actions are stochastic

    Abdelhakim Khatab;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • A fast solution method for the time-dependent orienteering problem

    Cedric Verbeeck;Kenneth Sörensen;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Pieter Vansteenwegen;Pieter Vansteenwegen

  • Models for robust tactical planning in multi-stage production systems with uncertain demands

    El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Carles Sitompul;Najib M. Najid

  • Designing distribution patterns for long-term inventory routing with constant demand rates

    Birger Raa;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • Optimizing production and imperfect preventive maintenance planning׳s integration in failure-prone manufacturing systems

    El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Abdelhakim Khatab;Phuoc Le Tam

  • Simultaneously scheduling n jobs and the preventive maintenance on the two-machine flow shop to minimize the makespan

    H Allaoui;S Lamouri;A Artiba;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • Safety stock placement problem in capacitated supply chains

    Carles Sitompul;El Houssaine Aghezzaf;Wout Dullaert;Hendrik Van Landeghem

  • Decentralized and centralized model predictive control to reduce the bullwhip effect in supply chain management

    Dongfei Fu;Clara-Mihaela Ionescu;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Robain De Keyser

  • Robust distribution planning for supplier-managed inventory agreements when demand rates and travel times are stationary

    El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • Integrated production quality and condition-based maintenance optimisation for a stochastically deteriorating manufacturing system

    Abdelhakim Khatab;Claver Diallo;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Uday Venkatadri

  • A structured methodology for the design of a human-robot collaborative assembly workplace

    João Eduardo Costa Mateus;Dieter Claeys;Veronique Limère;Johannes Cottyn

  • A framework for sustainable waste management: challenges and opportunities

    Sarah Elsaid;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • Integrated imperfect multimission selective maintenance and repairpersons assignment problem

    Kenza Chaabane;Abdelhakim Khatab;Claver Diallo;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • Measuring complexity in mixed-model assembly workstations

    Luiza Zeltzer;Veronique Limère;Hendrik Van Landeghem;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • Selective maintenance optimization for systems operating missions and scheduled breaks with stochastic durations

    Abdelhakim Khatab;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Imene Djelloul;Zaki Sari

  • A matheuristic for aggregate production–distribution planning with mould sharing

    Birger Raa;Wout Dullaert;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf

  • A fast solution method for the time-dependent orienteering problem with time windows

    Cédric Verbeeck;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Pieter Vansteenwegen

Frequent Co-Authors

Wout Dullaert
Wout Dullaert Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Laurence A. Wolsey
Laurence A. Wolsey Université Catholique de Louvain
Herwig Bruneel
Herwig Bruneel Ghent University
Clara-Mihaela Ionescu
Clara-Mihaela Ionescu Ghent University
Stefan Minner
Stefan Minner Technical University of Munich
Reinout Heijungs
Reinout Heijungs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Mario Vanhoucke
Mario Vanhoucke Ghent University
Hai-Tao Zhang
Hai-Tao Zhang Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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