Our People - Production Management

• Applied operations research
• Logistics/Inventory management
• Modes of transport and transportation systems

Waterloo Management of Integrated Manufacturing Systems (WATMIMS)

• Large-scale linear and integer optimization (interior-point methods, decomposition, column generation)
• Supply-chain design: logistics, inventory, routing and scheduling

• Conflict resolution
• Multiple objective decision making
• Systems management
• Time series analysis techniques

Conflict Analysis Group

• Delayed product differentiation strategies
• Design of vendor managed inventory systems
• Evaluation of production/inventory system information
• Stochastic models of manufacturing and service systems
• Supply chain management

• Adaptive control heuristics for production control
• Auto manufacturing efficiencies
• Production control strategies for lean supply chains
• Threat detection frameworks

• Behavioural & organizational aspects of information systems and management of technology

• Business and industrial statistics
• Operations research
• Statistical engineering
• Statistical methods for process improvement and variation reduction