Doctoral student Eduardo Alarcon at MIM 2022 Conference

From June 22nd to 24th, 2022, the 10th "IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control" (MIM 2022) was held in Nantes, France. At the conference, organised by IMT Atlantique, researchers exchanged ideas on current topics in industrial engineering, supply chain management, operations research and other related disciplines. In addition to the presentation of 545 conference papers, 6 keynote speakers gave exciting insights into current industry trends. At the conference, doctoral student Eduardo Alarcon (Cluster B, Subproject B1) presented his paper entitled "Customer Order Scheduling in a Mobile 3D Printing Factory".

Abstract:
"The problem addressed in this article is motivated by the development of small-scale, mobile factories equipped with 3D printing technologies. As they are embedded in standard containers, it is possible to move them from one location to another to support on-site and demand-driven production. To approach this problem, we developed a mixed-integer program model which defines the location of the mobile factory and assigns customer orders to each location and build, with the objective of minimizing relocation, transport, and tardiness costs. In addition, we proposed a heuristic method which, in an iterative process, builds a feasible solution and then seeks to improve it based on certain predefined rules. Early computational tests show that our algorithm achieves competitive results and can lay the groundwork for more sophisticated algorithms and problems.”

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