Controlling and improving operational processes
Research within the Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control (OPAC) Group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) deals with the control of operational processes, which can be related to manufacturing systems, distribution, transportation, warehousing, retail, healthcare, public transportation and service processes such as equipment maintenance. These operational processes transform incoming materials into outgoing materials or move these materials from one place to another using scarce resources, such as machines, people or means of transportation.
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February 16, 2023
Karel van Donselaar wins Best Teacher Awards
On January 26 he was awarded with two (!) awards
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February 9, 2023
More medicines for rare diseases
Wendy Olsder defended her thesis at the department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences on February 9th, 2023.
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OPAC has long-term relationships with many industrial partners and works on several long-term research lines.
OPAC Research Lines
Meet some of our researchers
Recent Publications
Our most recent peer reviewed publications
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Buyer-backed purchase-order financing for SME supplier with uncertain yield
European Journal of Operational Research (2023) -
Stochastic Inventory Routing with Time-Based Shipment Consolidation
European Journal of Operational Research (2023) -
Solving Large-Scale Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems with Stochastic Requests
European Journal of Operational Research (2023) -
Decentralized learning multi-agent system for online machine shop scheduling problem
Journal of Manufacturing Systems (2023) -
Policies for the dynamic traveling maintainer problem with alerts
European Journal of Operational Research (2023)
Contact
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Visiting address
Atlas 4.402De ZaaleEindhovenNetherlands -
Postal address
Atlas 4.402P.O. Box 5135600 MB EindhovenNetherlands -
Secretaryopac@ tue.nl