Circular supply chains are frequently discussed in political contexts but are rarely observed in reality. How can we close this gap? This question is addressed in our latest publication in the International Journal of Production Research (IJPR): “Overcoming the productivity challenge in product life-extending operations: a multiple-case study of European facilities” by Dr. Clemens Gróf and Prof. Torbjørn Netland.
D-MTEC MAS student Simon-Pierre has received the ETH MAS Excellence Award, which recognizes the student with the best overall academic performance based on their Grade Point Average (GPA).
Nils Löwhagen has been awarded the ETH Medal for an outstanding master’s thesis completed in collaboration with MANN+HUMMEL. The thesis explores how critical path methodology and process mining can improve inventory management in low-volume, high-mix production systems.
The chair of POM co-authored a paper at this year’s conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI). Dr. Fei Xue, Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang and Alexander Albers attended the conference in Yokohama, Japan
This week, 16 members of the ASSY5.1 project team from Accelleron, Maxon, Inpire, Bossard and ETH Zurich went on an exciting two-day trip to Stuttgart. The highlight? A deep dive into cutting-edge trends in production and assembly automation at both Fraunhofer IAO and the Motek Fair.
The chair of POM joined this year’s APMS conference in Chemnitz, Germany. While two of our PhD students participated in the doctoral workshop, we also presented two papers.
