The first purpose of this lab is to study the design, planning, control and analysis problems of production and manufacturing systems so that their efficiency can be further improved. The other purpose is to train student members of this lab so that they can possess the knowledge and capability to solve the design, planning, control and analysis problems of production and manufacturing systems.

Areas of research interest:

• Layout design, storage assignment and order-picking problems distribution warehouses
• Group technology and cell formation problems
• Layout design in automated or flexible manufacturing systems
• Guide path design and control problems of automated guided vehicles
• Layout Design in semiconductor fabs
• Layout design and control problems of automated material handling systems in TFT-LCD plants
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Supply chain management (SCM)

Courses