**About the Editor**

**Arkadiusz Gola** received the D.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Krakow University of Technology (2019) and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Lublin University of Technology (2011). Currently, he works as a Professor of Lublin University of Technology (Poland) and he is a Head of the Division of Production Robotisation and Organisation in the Department of Production Computerisation and Robotisation (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lublin University of Technology). He is an expert at the Polish National Center for Research and Development and he was also employed as an external evaluator of the international project ILA-Lean (2016–2018). In fact, he leads a R&D project of about 30 mln PLN that aims to develop an innovative warehouse logistics process through a synergistic combination of dispersed workstations for various purposes. Arkadiusz Gola has supervised more than 90 master's and engineering theses, and has published over 130 manuscripts, including textbooks and refereed papers in international journals and conferences, with about 500 quotations due to Science Citation Index Expanded. His major fields of research include various aspects of manufacturing systems design, production logistics and operations management.
