We are looking for a Bachelor/Master student (m/f/d) to support the Chair of Production Management of the Business School for 24hours / month (or more) from October 1st, 2022 onwards. The chair’s research focuses on the development of methods in Business Analytics and Operations Research, ...

On Friday, July 15, 2022, Johannes Diefenbach successfully defended his dissertation entitled: “Design and control of stochastic manufacturing systems”. Congratulations, Johannes! Abstract: Many manufacturing systems are subject to uncertainty, which can be described using stochastic processes. ...

European PhD school on Reinforcement learning applied to operations research This PhD school make students in stochastic modelling familiar with several Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques. The participants will apply these concepts to solve Operations Research problems through a ...

On Friday, July 8, 2022, Amir Foroughi successfully defended his dissertation entitled: “Three Essays on Algorithmic Approaches in Operations Management”. The essays' titles are: High-density storage with mobile racks: Picker routing and product location, Outpatient appointment scheduling with ...

The Chair of Production Management participated in the SMMSO 2022, Grenoble, June 2022 and the EURO conference 2022, Espoo, Finland.

The topics for Research Seminar Production Management (OPM 761) in the Fall semester 2022 are now available!

Sarah Roth will write her dissertation at our chair and we warmly welcome her as a new team member. Sarah holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Mathematics English Philology from the Free University of Berlin. After her bachelor studies, she received Masters degrees in Mathematics, ...

The paper of Johannes Diefenbach is accepted for publication in the European Journal of Operational Research.

Peak management of time-dependent demand: Data analysis and insights Waiting on hold is the biggest problem in the service centre industry. Service centres need to decide whether they increase the number of agents or accept longer waiting times. virtualQ offers virtual waiting service to eliminate ...

Siamak Khayyati is a Postdoctoral Researcher at our chair and we warmly welcome him as a new team member. Siamak holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and got his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Management at Koc ...