Collaborative Research: Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution \(CELDi\)

工程物流与配送中心(CELDi)是一个新成立的多大学、多学科的产学研合作研究中心。该中心的愿景是通过建模、分析和智能系统技术为物流问题提供综合解决方案。参与这项提议的四所大学，阿肯色大学作为牵头机构，俄克拉荷马大学、路易斯维尔大学和俄克拉荷马州立大学在工程物流研究和教育方面发挥领导作用。CELDI的范围将涉及(1)创造时间和地点效用的增值过程(运输、材料处理和分配)，(2)延长使用寿命的价值维持过程(维护、维修和返工)，以及(3)保护稀缺资源和增强社会善意的价值回收过程(退货、翻新和回收)。

The Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution (CELDi) is a new multi-university, multi-disciplinary Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC). The vision for the center is to provide integrated solutions to logistics problems, through modeling, analysis and intelligent-systems technologies.The four universities involved in this proposal, the University of Arkansas, serving as the lead institution, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Louisville, and Oklahoma State University are assuming a leadership role in engineering logistics research and education.The scope of CELDi will address (1) value-adding processes that create time and place utility (transportation, material handling, and distribution), (2) value-sustaining processes that prolong useful life (maintenance, repair, and rework), and (3) value-recovering processes that conserve scarce resources and enhance societal goodwill (returns, refurbishment, and recycling).