GOALI: Manufacturing Logistics Optimization Problems

9809479 storeor该赠款通过“与行业学术联络资助机会”（GOALI）计划为教师在行业实习提供资金。该教员实习生将与空气产品和化学公司的决策科学小组进行联合研究。研究将集中在制造业物流，主要是在供应链整合，分销和资源配置领域。包括空气产品公司在内的许多公司，都面临着以具有成本效益的方式生产和分销产品给客户的挑战性问题。这些问题的解决方案对空气产品公司的财务成功和实习教师的研究兴趣都至关重要。特别令人感兴趣的问题包括由动态和不可预测的商业环境引起的复杂因素。这些问题通常很大，很复杂，并且包含随机成分。该项目的主要目标是促进利哈伊大学制造物流研究所（MLI）的教师和学生与空气产品公司决策科学小组之间的长期关系。在与空气产品公司的密切合作中，这位教员实习生希望将长期研究问题定义为继续合作的基础，并提供一些有用的短期结果。确定合作研究机会将有助于与空气产品公司建立牢固的工作关系，并将为制造物流研究所的学生和教师提供重要的教育经验和研究机会。空气产品公司将受益于其竞争优势的关键领域的额外专业知识。如果成功，该项目将最终产生具有普遍意义的研究成果。展望了供应链集成和解决动态随机环境下的优化问题的进展。

9809479 Storer This grant provides funding through the Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) initiative for Faculty in Industry Internship. The faculty intern will conduct joint research with the Decision Sciences Group at Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Research will focus on manufacturing logistics, primarily in the areas of supply chain integration, distribution, and resource allocation. Challenging problems associated with the production and distribution of product to customers in a cost efficient manner face many firms, including Air Products. Solutions for these types of problems are central to both the financial success of Air Products and the research interests of the faculty intern. Of particular interest are problems that include complicating factors caused by a dynamic and unpredictable business environment. These problems are typically large, complex, and contain stochastic components. A primary goal of the project is to foster a long-term relationship between faculty and students of the Manufacturing Logistics Institute (MLI) at Lehigh University and the Decision Sciences group at Air Products. Working closely with Air Products, the faculty intern hopes to define long-term research issues as the basis for continuing collaboration, as well as providing some useful short-term results. Identifying collaborative research opportunities will help develop a strong working relationship with Air Products, and will provide significant educational experiences and research opportunities to the students and faculty of the Manufacturing Logistics Institute. Air Products will benefit from additional expertise in areas key to their competitive advantage. If successful, the project will ultimately lead to research results of generic interest. Advances in supply chain integration and in solving optimization problems in a dynamic and stochastic environment are anticipated.