Milad Ashour Pour
Assistant Professor
Integrated Product and Production Development
Department of Product Development, Production and Design
, School of Engineering
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Milad Ashourpour is Assistant Professor in Robotic Automation at Jönköping School of Engineering (JTH), Jönköping University, where he also serves as Program Manager for the MSc Program in Production Engineering and Automation.
Research and teaching
His current work centers on automation and robotics for manufacturing and assembly operations. This includes simulation, offline and online programming of robotic cells, virtual commissioning, end of arm tooling design and rapid prototyping, and lab based feasibility testing. His applied research also extends into sensor based quality inspection and predictive maintenance, drawing on both visual and acoustic monitoring of production processes, alongside deep learning methods for structured, time series industrial data and point cloud processing and trajectory planning for robotic applications.
He teaches at the MSc level across this same area, with lectures covering:
- Automation and robotics in production and assembly
- Robot programming for offline and online operation
- Simulation and virtual commissioning of robotic cells
- Sensor based approaches to quality control and predictive maintenance through ML/AI applications
He also engages with regional and national industry partners and contributes to EU funded research initiatives.
Background
Earlier in his career, he combined hands on experience in industrial manufacturing, including injection molding, with doctoral research on production based on Additive Manufacturing (AM), focused on manufacturability analysis covering both technical feasibility and economic viability, spanning new product development as well as improving functionality, reducing waste, and increasing efficiency of existing products across production and use phases.
- Postdoctoral researcher, JTH (2021)
- PhD, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy (2017)
- MSc, Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2013)
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Article
Ashour Pour, M., Azizpour, G.
(2026).
Dual-Stream Autoencoder Architecture for Audio-Based Anomaly Detection in Industrial Quality Control IEEE Access, 14, 77879-77905.
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Ashour Pour, M., Zanoni, S., Bacchetti, A., Zanardini, M., Perona, M.
(2019).
Additive manufacturing impacts on a two-level supply chain International journal of systems science: Operations & logistics, 6(1), 1-14.
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Zanoni, S., Ashour Pour, M., Bacchetti, A., Zanardini, M., Perona, M.
(2019).
Supply chain implications of additive manufacturing: a holistic synopsis through a collection of case studies The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 102(9-12), 3325-3340.
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Conference paper
Shah, M., Ashour Pour, M., Johansen, K.
(2026).
Enhancing Electric Vehicle Battery Pack Assembly with YOLOv8-Based Real-time Detection and Bayesian Optimization.
18th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, 10-12 July 2024, Naples, Italy.
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Wu, S., Ashour Pour, M., Hedblom, M., Riveiro, M.
(2025).
A Real-Time Pipeline for Unsupervised Defect Detection in Industrial Manufacturing.
52nd International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE52), October 29-31, 2025, INSA Lyon, France.
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Ashour Pour, M.
(2024).
Automation of Operations in Assembly of Battery Modules in Electric Vehicles.
18th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing INCOM 2024 Vienna, Austria, August 28-30, 2024.
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Azizpour, G., Ashour Pour, M., Johansen, K.
(2024).
Enhancing Manufacturing Flexibility Through Automation Packaged Solution (APS): A Case Study Approach.
11th Swedish Production Symposium, SPS2024 Trollhattan 23 April 2024 through 26 April 2024.
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Ashour Pour, M., Azizpour, G., Johansen, K.
(2024).
Real-Time Defect and Object Detection in Assembly Line: A Case for In-Line Quality Inspection.
32nd International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM 2023 Porto 18 June 2023 through 22 June 2023.
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Montoya, T., Ashour Pour, M., Johansen, K.
(2022).
A Conceptual Training Simulator for the Assembly of Electric Vehicle Batteries in Virtual Reality.
21st International Conference on Modeling and Applied Simulation, MAS 2022, Rome Italy September 19-21 2022.
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Ashour Pour, M., Johansen, K.
(2022).
Deployment of additive manufacturing and robotics for increasing flexibility in productions.
Amsterdam:
IOS Press, 10th Swedish Production Symposium (SPS2022), School of Engineering Science, University of Skövde, Sweden, April 26–29 2022.
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Rao, S., Johansen, K., Ashour Pour, M.
(2022).
Exploring Simulation as a Tool for Evaluation of Automation Assisted Assembly of Customized Products.
8th Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production Conference, CARV 2021 and 10th World Mass Customization and Personalization Conference, MCPC 2021, 1 November 2021 through 2 November 2021.
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Wlazlak, P., Ashour Pour, M.
(2022).
Knowledge Integration in Product and Production Development Through Boundary Objects and Additive Manufacturing.
10th Swedish Production Symposium (SPS2022), School of Engineering Science, University of Skövde, Sweden, April 26–29 2022.
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Johansen, K., Ashour Pour, M., Rao, S.
(2021).
Positioning sustainable automation in production of customized products.
30th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM 2021, 7 September 2021 through 10 September 2021.
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Stolt, R., Ashour Pour, M., Siafakas, D.
(2021).
Making Additively Manufactured Cores with Conformal Tooling Directly on a Die-base.
30th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM2021), 7-10 September 2021, Athens, Greece.
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Johansen, K., Rao, S., Ashour Pour, M.
(2021).
The Role of Automation in Complexities of High-Mix in Low-Volume Production - A Literature Review.
54th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Ssystems, CMS 2021, 22 September 2021 through 24 September 2021.
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Ashour Pour, M., Zanoni, S.
(2017).
Impact of Merging Components by Additive Manufacturing in Spare Parts Management.
27th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM2017, 27-30 June 2017, Modena, Italy.
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Ashour Pour, M., Zanardini, M., Bacchetti, A., Zanoni, S.
(2016).
Additive Manufacturing Impacts on Productions and Logistics Systems.
8th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control MIM 2016, Troyes, France, 28—30 June 2016.
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Zanardini, M., Bacchetti, A., Zanoni, S., Ashour Pour, M.
(2016).
Additive Manufacturing Applications in the Domain of Product Service System: An Empirical Overview.
Conference on Product-Service Systems across Life Cycle, Bergamo, Italy, 20-21 June 2016.
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Ashour Pour, M., Zanoni, S., Bacchetti, A., Zanardini, M., Perona, M.
(2016).
Additive manufacturing supply chain: Modeling and performance evaluation.
Innsbruck:
Congress Innsbruck, Nineteenth International Working Seminar on Production Economics, February 22-26, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Zanardini, M., Bacchetti, A., Ashour Pour, M., Zanoni, S.
(2015).
Benefits and costs of additive manufacturing applications: An evaluation guideline.
20th Summer School "Francesco Turco", Naples, Italy, September 16-18, 2015.
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Ashour Pour, M., Zanardini, M., Bacchetti, A., Zanoni, S.
(2015).
An economic insight into additive manufacturing system implementation.
Cham:
Springer, IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2015, Tokyo, Japan, September 7-9, 2015.
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