CAREER: New Scheduling Models for Supply Chain Restoration, Construction, and Redesign

职业：供应链恢复、构建和重新设计的新调度模型

• 批准号: 1254258
• 负责人: Thomas Sharkey
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1254258&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; New; Scheduling; Models; Supply

The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award is to investigate innovative optimization models and algorithms for problems in restoring supply chains after significant disruptive events, constructing supply chains to support humanitarian relief efforts, and transitioning supply chains to their next-generation redesign. These application areas have in common that the supply chain is operational as efforts are implemented to change its design. Therefore, the optimization models will focus on scheduling when and how the supply chain will change over time. In particular, limited resources will be allocated to perform tasks that change the characteristics of the components of the supply chain. The project's optimization models and algorithms specifically recognize the temporal aspects of the application areas and are innovative in the area of scheduling, since they focus on the interactions of the completed tasks within the supply chain. The educational program of this award will experiment with teaching methods that help to customize the learning experiences of engineering students based on their own interests and projected career paths. If successful, the results of this research will provide tools that enable companies and organizations to propose and analytically assess strategies for their restoration, construction, and redesign efforts. This will help lessen the economical and societal impact of extreme events, since decision-makers in supply chain restoration and construction will be able to benchmark existing strategies and the impact of policy shifts in responding to the event. These tools will further help companies to understand how to integrate advanced manufacturing capabilities, including energy-efficient components, into their existing supply chains. The educational program will promote undergraduate research and develop new methods to better prepare students to apply optimization models in their projected career paths. These educational activities will help to promote the diversity of future options available to industrial engineering students.

该学院早期职业发展（职业）奖的研究目标是研究创新的优化模型和算法，以解决重大破坏性事件后恢复供应链、构建供应链以支持人道主义救援工作以及将供应链过渡到下一代重新设计的问题。 这些应用领域的共同点是，当努力改变其设计时，供应链即可运行。 因此，优化模型将重点关注供应链随时间变化的时间和方式。 特别是，有限的资源将被分配来执行改变供应链组成部分特征的任务。 该项目的优化模型和算法特别认识到应用领域的时间方面，并且在调度领域具有创新性，因为它们专注于供应链内已完成任务的交互。 该奖项的教育计划将尝试教学方法，帮助工科学生根据自己的兴趣和预计的职业道路定制学习体验。 如果成功，这项研究的结果将提供工具，使公司和组织能够提出和分析评估其修复、建设和重新设计工作的策略。 这将有助于减轻极端事件的经济和社会影响，因为供应链恢复和建设的决策者将能够对现有战略以及应对事件的政策转变的影响进行基准测试。 这些工具将进一步帮助企业了解如何将先进的制造能力（包括节能组件）集成到其现有的供应链中。 该教育计划将促进本科生研究并开发新方法，让学生更好地准备在其预计的职业道路中应用优化模型。 这些教育活动将有助于促进工业工程学生未来选择的多样性。