Research

The overall goal of the study was to assist in defining and assessing workplace competencies related to the field of logistics. With such an assessment, management should be capable of designing specific employee development plans and organization-wide programs to raise the level of logistics competency and performance in the organization.

Sponsor: Celdi IAB Research Team: Timothy Matis Universities Involved: Texas Tech University Start Date: 05/01/11 End Date: 12/31/12 Summary:

This project project focuses on the development of optimization-based approaches to increase efficiencies in the sign distribution network of the Missouri Department of Transportation through comprehensive examination of warehouse and delivery locations, inventory volumes, and transportation logistics.

The objective of this project is to analyze a region to determine the optimal geographical location for implementing a redistribution center

Thisproject investigates relationships among demand management, collaboratives forecasting, and demands planning to improve the supply chain's ability to match demand with supply.

This prject designs a user friendly Storage Load Building Tool to be used to configure the storage for a desired set of pallets

This project used a checklist to identify personnel activity (receiving, picking, shipping), equipment activity (AGV and robotic stackers), and inventory freshness (age and value) for automated storage.

The objective of this project is to develop a new, automated system widely applicable to inventory and asset managemen

Sponsor: National Science Foundation Research Team: Manjunath Kamath Universities Involved: Oklahoma State University Start Date: 06/01/08 End Date: 07/31/09 Summary: In this project, the participating teacher, Mr. Thomas, would work closely with PI Kamath and co-PI Balasundaram on mathematical models for engineering problems in transportation, distribution and logistics (e.g., flow […]

This project introduces IE concepts in to Middle School students using Microsoft Office Excel

Sponsor: Oklahoma Department of Transportation Research Team: Yongpei Guan Universities Involved: University of Oklahoma Start Date: 06/01/07 End Date: 06/30/09 Summary: Following the terrorism attack on September 11, 2001 container security issues were aroused. The U.S. government proposed and implemented a lot of measures, such as C-TPAT, CSI, and etc. […]

The objective of this project is to address shipment consolidation and dispatch problems

This project develops numerical models that evaluate change in personnel and equipment activities within an automated warehouse.

Sponsor: Oklahoma Department of Transportation Research Team: P. Simin Pulat Universities Involved: University of Oklahoma Start Date: 06/01/09 End Date: 06/30/09 Summary: Researchers are continuing an effort with the Oklahoma Dept. of Transportation to examine import/export container flows between US ports and foreign ports, Port-to-Port Ocean container flows by commodity […]

Sponsor: GE Energy Research Team: Scott Shappell Universities Involved: Clemson University Start Date: 06/01/08 End Date: 06/01/09 Summary: To date, little research has been conducted on the causes of human error in wind turbine installation, commissioning, operations and maintenance. Given the potential risks associated with wind turbine maintenance, preventing errors […]

The objective of this project is to develop and apply an approach to design a distribution network with respect to both TL and LTL transportation models and the associated operating practices.

This project investigates the possibility of reducing human contact in a hazardous environment where the work is labor intensive and the object conditioned is many times larger than one human operator.

The objective of this research is to develop the decision support system to help companies improve their supply agility by focusing on the purchasing decisions and processes.

The objective of this project is to conduct research in the following areas of a process (i) lighting study, (ii) acoustics study, (ii) workbench study, and (iv) layout study.

This project researches and evaluates the feasibility of using underground pipelines for transporting freight instead of using truck.

Sponsor: National Science Foundation Research Team: Edward A. Pohl Universities Involved: University of Arkansas Start Date: 06/01/05 End Date: 05/31/06 Summary: RET: Miller, Reynolds

Use of computer simulation games to introduce industrial engineering basics into middle and junior high schools curriculums.

This project develops a new online graphical system an improved user interface, visualization and central control for a process.

This project creates an IE competition amongst Junior High and High School students to stimualte the interest in the subject.

This research analysizes ordering policies and inventory of a process to determine if there needs to be a change in the ordering procedures.