The key research topics include:
- design and management of industrial, mechanical and auxiliary plants.
- design, optimization and simulation of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS).
- Industry 4.0, enabling technologies and their impact on production systems.
- Supply Chain Management and Green Supply Chain Management.
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC).
- supply Chain optimization: location/allocation problems, strategic, tactical and operative planning of direct and reverse logistics networks.
- management and planning of production systems, manufacturing and assembly cells, through advanced optimization models and algorithms.
- design of non-traditional storage systems.
- design, balancing and simulation of assembly systems.
- innovative approaches, methods and models to spread the penetration of the renewables.
- feasibility study, development and field-test of prototypal plants based on low carbon sources, including hybrid systems (renewables + backup).
- advanced models for production planning and inventory management.
