S. Carmo-Silva, is Portuguese, obtained a graduate degree (five year university course) in Mechanical Engineering from Oporto University in 1976, a Master of Science in Management and Technology from University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, in 1980, and a PhD in Manufacturing Engineering, from Loughborough University of Technology, in UK, in the year 1988. Presently he is a research member of the ALGORITMI research centre of the University of Minho, in Portugal and a retired Associate Professor of the Department of Production and Systems of the same university. His industrial and academic focus is on Production Planning and Control (PPC). He has developed research on production systems Design and Production Activity Control, with an emphasis on production control systems and workload control. As an important tool of research he has been using computer simulation. Under the Master courses in Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering and Management of the University of Minho, Professor Carmo-Silva was responsible for several curricular units including, Production Activity Control, Production Systems Organization and Production Management, and was, in the past, responsible and promoter of many others, such as Computer Aided Manufacturing, Work-study and Fundamentals of Ergonomics, Quality Control and Reliability, Elements of Design for Manufacture, Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Production Systems Design.