Mobility experience with a research focus
Master students involved in the final research; PhD sandwich; Post Doc
Department of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering
The manufacturing industry is currently subject to many challenges characterized by an increasing complexity and uncertainty due to the shorter product life cycle, stringent requirements from customers and other stakeholders, and rising frequency of changes. Manufacturing companies are then required to be responsive and adapt their processes. Digitalization is recognized as a valuable lever to this end. Applications of digital solutions span across the life cycle of various entities such as the product, the manufacturing system and the supporting services of maintenance and logistics. Given this scope of work, digitalization presents opportunities for benefits in the operations and logistics management. In particular, Cyber Physical Systems, integrating physical and digital entities that work together, can lead to attain meaningful enhancements towards an effective decision-making. The digital entities build on different technologies and follow paradigmatic approaches that range from low-cost pathways for small and medium sized enterprises, to systems engineering pathways which are concretized by Digital Twins and the Industrial Metaverse, leading to the potential of a high-impact over a wide scale. The research activity will allow to deepen the knowledge in regard to the different technology options, investigating the advantages, barriers, and challenges of digitalization in manufacturing. A scope of application will be selected as a specific challenge to contribute to the development of models, methods or frameworks, with the end purpose to support deploying the digital solutions in manufacturing. The challenge will be particularly addressing a problem from lean, sustainable or circular manufacturing contexts.
English
Master Research: 3-6
Phd sanwhich: 3-6
PostDoc: 3-6