Research Clusters

Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used recently to distribute products by different companies, such as Amazon for small packages and DHL for medical supplies to a car-free island off the coast of Germany. It has also been used by other companies in Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia. The applications of drones for faster delivery of products and services are fairly new and there are great deals of room for improvement. This includes several problems related to routing, allocation, location, and many more problems. The research considers several advantages including faster speed and direct fly, as well as some limitations of these kinds of vehicles such as travel distance, capacity limit, aviation regulations, and more. More...

In today's fast paced business environment, there are many fresh food companies and food processing factories having complex supply networks working towards efficiently distributing their products. Problems they face concern public health and living standards. To build an efficient supply chain network will improve both public conditions and companies’ profits. Apart from maximizing profit, there are several other objectives that needs to be addressed: environmental, social, global impacts etc., that need to be included in the decision making process considering our current global food market scenario. More...

The progress of smart factory with efficient scheduling approaches is impeded by several challenges such as reconfigurable manufacturing systems, different processing speed at parallel machines, mass-customization, and dynamic job arrivals. Thus, the definition of scheduling problem with various characteristics and application of data from the shop floor have assumed considerable significance for accelerating the advancement of smarter factory. More...