Faculty

Faculty

Masaru NAKANO, Ph.D. Professor, Graduate School of SDM, Keio University

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Biography

After obtaining a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1980, Masaru Nakano joined Toyota Central R&D Laboratories (1980-2008) and served as principal researcher before joining this graduate school in April 2008. Meantime, he obtained a Ph.D. in Production System Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1997 and then served as a lecturer at Nagoya Institute of Technology (1997-1999).

Laboratory


Business Engineering Laboratory

Research Interests

  • Production system engineering
  • Business process reengineering (project management, value chain analysis, marketing)
  • Sustainable manufacturing (system analysis for environment, energy efficiency, recycling based society)
  • Urban mobility system for aging and disable people

Major Publications

  • Masaru Nakano, Nobuaki Minato, "Systems Approach for Business Engineering", Kodansha, 2012
  • Masaru Nakano, Shigetoshi Noritake, and Toshio Ohashi, “A Lifecycle Simulation Framework for Production Systems”, Lean Business Systems and Beyond, Springer Boston, pp.327-335, 2008
  • Masaru Nakano, Fumiko Kubota, Shuichi Sato, Cristoph Roser and Mituhiro Araki, “Holistic Methodology for Business Process Reengineering”, The 1st Conference on Changeable, Agile Reconfigurable and Virtual Production (CARV), (Best Paper Award), pp.441-445, 2005
  • Shuichi Sato，Yutaka Inamori、Masaru Nakano, Toshiyuki　Suzuki，Nobuaki　Miyajima, “Analysis Method for Overseas Production Preparation Process”, Journal of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering (JSME), Vo.71, No.705, pp.322-329, 2005
  • Masaru Nakano, Fumiko Kubota, Yutaka Inamori and Keiji Mitsuyuki, “Method and Tool for Design Process Navigation and Automatic Generation of Simulation Models for Manufacturing Systems”, Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing: Information Infrastructure in the Era of Global Communications, edited by E. Arai (Springer), pp.177-184, 2004
  • Masaru Nakano, Katsuhisa Ohno, “An Integrated Analytical/Simulation Approach for Economic Design of an AGV System”, Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan, Vol.43, No.3, pp.382-395, 2000
  • Masaru Nakano, Shunichi Sato, Eiji Arai, “Collaborative Design Supporting System for Manufacturing Systems”, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering (JSME) International Journal, Series C., Vol.45, No.2, pp.575-580, 2002

Awards

  • Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Flexible Automation, ‘Framework and Tool for Visualizing and Analyzing Vague Processes during Process Reengineering,’ 2006
  • Best Paper Award, The 1st Conference on Changeable, Agile Reconfigurable and Virtual Production (CARV2005), ‘Holistic Methodology for Business Process Reengineering,’ 2005
  • Best Paper Award: International Symposium on Scheduling 2002,” Single Simulation Confidence Intervals Using the Delta Method”

Academic Affiliations

  • INCOSE
  • Japan Society of Energy and Resources (JSER)
  • Japan Industrial Management Association (JIMA)
  • Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE)
  • Scheduling Society of Japan (SSJ)
  • The Operations Research Society of Japan
  • Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
  • The Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Japan
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Special Issue on Advances in Automation Science and Engineering for Automotive Manufacturing
  • International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)　WG5.7 APMS (Advances in Production Management Systems) (since 2005)
  • Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Automation Technology (IJAT)
  • Guest Editor, International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM), Special Issue: Developing Sustainable Products, Processes and Services
  • Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing (Manufacturing System Division)

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