It is our great pleasure to announce the onboard of JOSI new editors.

Bruno de Athayde Prata, Ph.D is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering of Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil. His main research interests are production scheduling, metaheuristics, and transportations systems. He regularly publishes papers in international scientific journals.

Orhan Korhan, Ph.D have been working at Depaerment of Industrial Engineering of the Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, since 2009, and became a full professor since 2020. He is assigned to scientific committee of several international conferences, and published several books, book chapters and papers. His most recent research focuses on the topics of Industry 4.0 and ergonomics.

Dr. Ali Anjomshoae is a Research Associate at Thammasat Business School, Thailand. He actively works on topics related to humanitarian supply chain management and publishes research in ISI and/or SCOPUS research journals at least once a calendar year.

We are thrilled that our new editors will bring their incredible experience and talent to ensure JOSI continues to thrive!

Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri has provided a new Author Guidelines. Authors can submit a manuscript in plain text Ms. Word file without requiring any specific template or format.

For further information, please visit the author guidelines.

Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri is a Plan S compliant journal to authors or research fund grantees from these funders:

- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
- National Science Centre, Poland
- South African Medical Research Council
- Research Council of Norway
- Luxembourg National Research Fund
- French National Research Agency

For further information regarding Plan S, please visit https://www.coalition-s.org/. 

An Orcid ID is a persistent digital identifier that is owned and controlled by researchers, and that distinguishes one researcher from other researchers. With that in mind, we call our users (authors, reviewers, and editors) to update their data in JOSI to the current Orcid ID.

We are very excited as the year 2022 is starting!

This journal is now using the Open Journal System in its latest version as of today. We want to provide a more comfortable and more up-to-date experience of technology trends for all parties who have helped the existence and progress of this journal.

Today, Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri (JOSI) is using the new version of OJS with a new look. Hopefully, with this new version, authors, reviewers, and readers can be more comfortable visiting and reading articles on JOSI.

Please keep submitting your best articles to Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri (JOSI).

Happy new year 2022. Live long and prosper as Mr Spock said.

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We are in Publons, and we are showcasing our editors and reviewers upon the completion of their duties. We welcome editors and reviewers to collaborate with Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri.

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Dear Readers, Authors, and our esteemed Reviewers,

As the year 2020 is closing, we are delighted to share Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri's (JOSI) visitors coverage nationally and internationally. With this map, we set our strategies for years to come that we are going international. You can see that our latest issue's articles are in English already. We are on our way of promoting JOSI to international authors. Your help in this strategy is ultimately important to us, and we cannot thank you enough. Keep sending us your best articles and we grow together!

Dear authors, readers, and librarians, our volume 19 issue 2 of 2020 has been published. It is a little bit late due to several circumstances. We made an improvement in this issue. Our articles are mainly in English to accommodate our international authors and readers.

We are sincerely grateful for the work done by our esteemed reviewers and appreciate the authors for their excellent papers submitted to this journal.

Finally, have fun reading this issue. We do hope that it will bring new research perspectives.

Based on the results of the Scientific Journal Accreditation Period VII of 2019 and the issuance of the Decree of the Director-General of Research Strengthening and Development of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education Number 36/E/KPT/2019, dated December 13, 2019, Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri (JOSI) is listed as the Grade 2 (Sinta 2) journal.

We are delighted with the result and acknowledge all parties involved in making this possible; the Industrial Engineering Department of Engineering Faculty at Universitas Andalas, the Institution of Engineers Indonesia, Badan Kerjasama Penyelenggara Pendidikan Tinggi Teknik Industri (BKSTI), the authors, the reviewers, the editors, and other parties using our articles, including citing our published articles in their papers, and last but not least the Arjuna's reviewers. We can not thank you enough.

It has been a very pleasant journey this year. We were awarded as a Grade 3 (Sinta 3) journal early this year, and by the end of 2019, we are the Grade 2 (Sinta 2). Such an achievement made possible by our editors, reviewers, authors, and readers. We are incredibly grateful for your confidence in publishing your best papers with us.

Again, thank you!