Jun 14, 2022
transCampus cooperation with King's College London
Schematic description of the integrated planning problem
Within the transnational research partnership transCampus, various institutes from TU Dresden and King's College London have been cooperating for several years. This year, the Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial Management, is also part of this partnership and cooperates with Professor Rym M'Hallah, who holds the Chair of Systems Engineering at King's College. Her research activities focus on modeling, analyzing, and optimizing production and logistics systems. The problems range from classical machine allocation problems in production environments to route planning and complex packing problems.
As part of the transCampus cooperation, the chair team is working with Professor M'Hallah on integrated machine allocation planning in additive manufacturing. The ability of additive manufacturing technologies to produce different components simultaneously within one production step opens up new possibilities for customizable mass production. At the same time, however, efficient planning methods are needed to schedule the customer orders onto the additive manufacturing machines according to the target criteria. On the one hand, this requires optimization of the placement of components in the available installation space and the associated definition of batches (nesting). Furthermore, assigning these batches to the additive manufacturing machines and defining a processing sequence (scheduling) is necessary. Combining these sub-problems in the additive manufacturing environment represents a novel combined planning problem in scheduling.
More information on the transCampus partnership:
https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/internationales/transcampus