Dr. Mohammad Darghouth

Assistant Professor

• Office:22/235
• Phone: 966-50-238-7266
• Email: darghouth@)kfupm.edu.sa
• ResearchGate profile

​Education

• Ph.D, Industrial Engineering, Laval Univ., Canada, 2012
• M.Sc, Automatic Control and Production Engineering, Univ. of Tunis, Tunisia, 2007
• B.Sc, Production Engineering, Univ. of Tunis., Tunisia, 2004

Teaching

• ISE-402 Production systems and inventory control
• ISE-448 Sequencing and Scheduling
• ISE-391 Industrial Engineering Design
• ISE-201 Introduction to industrial engineering​ 

Research Interests

• Warranty and service contract
• Strategies of Inspection and Replacement
• Reliability and maintenance optimization
• Optimal system design
• Second-hand products

Selected Publications

1. M.N. Darghouth, D. Ait-kadi, A. Chelbi. (2017). Joint optimization of design, warranty and price for products sold with maintenance service contracts. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Volume 165, Pages 197-208.
2. M.N. Darghouth, A. Chelbi, D. Ait-kadi, (2017). Investigating reliability improvement of second-hand production equipment considering warranty and preventive maintenance strategies. International Journal of Production Research. doi:10.1080/00207543.2016.1277277
3. M. N. Darghouth, D. Ait-Kadi, A. Chelbi. (2015). Joint reliability based design and periodic preventive maintenance policy for system for systems sold with warranty. Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering Volume 22, Issue 1, pp.2-17.
4. ​M.N. Darghouth, A. Chelbi, D. Ait-kadi. (2015). On Reliability Improvement of Second-hand Products. IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 48, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2158-2163, ISSN 2405-8963.
5. M. N. Darghouth, A. Chelbi, D. Ait-Kadi. (2012). A profit assessment model for equipment inspection and replacement under renewing free replacement warranty policy. International Journal of Production Economics, 135(2):899–906