Simulation for Industry 4.0 / Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing (PDF)

Murat Gunal is worked as a senior lecturer at Barbaros Naval Science and Engineering Institute, in Turkey. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in Operational Research from Lancaster University, U.K. in 2000 and 2008 respectively. His main area of research is simulation methodology and applications particularly in healthcare. His PhD thesis was funded by EPSRC and titled District General Hospital Performance Simulation in which the models were used in various NHS hospitals for performance improvements. In his masters study, he wrote a dissertation on call center operations and he developed a simulation model for NTL digital TV company. He also worked in freelance consultancy projects and developed simulation models for warehouse operations, medical companies, and service systems. He took part in research projects funded by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, TUBITAK (Turkish Science and Technology Research Council), and Ministry of Health. He is the director of Master of Science inNaval Operational Research and teaches simulation, probability, facility planning, service science, and mathematical modelling with VBA at graduate and undergraduate levels in several universities in Istanbul since 2008.He is associate editors of Journal of Simulation, and Health Systems.