News & Events

Congratulations to Maurice Kaulich for receiving the prestigious SEW-EURODRIVE Studienpreis in recognition of his outstanding academic achievement. Maurice, a master’s student in the MTEC program at ETH Zurich, has been awarded this prize for his master thesis titled: “Implementing Collaborative Robots at Bruker BioSpin for Enhancing Manual Production in a High-Mix, Low-Volume Environment”

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.

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

How can companies come together to effectively respond in a world increasingly disrupted by unexpected supply chain crises?

The Chair of POM welcomes Ms. Jingqi Liu as a new doctoral student from April 2025.

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.