Technical University of Dortmund

The Technical University Dortmund (TUDO), founded in 1968, conducts education and research with a unique ensemble of faculties from natural science, engineering as well as humanities and culture...

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Technical University of Dortmund The Technical University Dortmund (TUDO), founded in 1968, conducts education and research with a unique ensemble of faculties from natural science, engineering as well as humanities and culture studies. The university has defined four profile areas, two of them being “production and logistics” and “modelling, simulation, and optimization of complex processes and systems”. Here, computer scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, engineers, and economists cooperate on modelling technical processes and economic developments. In walking distance from the university campus, Europe’s largest technology park with 280 enterprises provides an excellent research network. TUDO performs third-party research with a budget of about 50M€. The 17 chairs of the mechanical engineering faculty take the largest part of this with a total of 17M€ (2012). Visit Website

Technical University of Dortmund

Who We Are The chair for “IT in production and logistics” (ITPL) has been founded within the mechanical engineering faculty in 2010, with the goal to strengthen the fruitful combination of innovative IT concepts with application areas in production and logistics. Prof. Markus Rabe, having worked for Fraunhofer as Germany’s largest organization for applied research, is contributing his experience from a high number of domestic, European, and global projects. ITPL is well-known for their expertise in discrete event simulation, e.g. with Prof. Rabe being the local chair of the Winter Simulation Conference in 2012. The Institute of Transport Logistics (ITL) evolved from the chair "Transport Systems and Logistics" which was founded in 2001 within the mechanical engineering faculty. Prof. Uwe Clausen is leading the Institute’s research and innovation activities which focus on management of logistics processes, esp. commercial traffic and freight transport modelling, mathematical optimization of complex logistical planning tasks as well as material flow simulation and process engineering for logistics systems. Being involved in several European and nationally funded projects the Institute is engaged in the development of concepts for sustainable freight transport, assessment of GHG emissions in supply chains, ICT to support green transport as well as optimization of logistics networks and operations. Main areas of application are intermodal logistics, parcel and forwarding logistics, urban freight, warehousing and consumer goods distribution.

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Role in the project TUDO will lead WP3 and specifically the Design of the simulation model (task 3.1). This work will rely on the in-depth experience that the involved chairs have on supply chain simulation, traffic simulation, logistics optimization, and consideration of multi-criteria problems considering cost, logistic KPIs and environmental performance.

Role in the project

Prof. Markus Rabe Moritz Poeting, Ph.D. Candidate Astrid Klueter, Ph.D. Candidate