Case Study Vacuum Cleaner: From Vision to Reality -- The Product Life Cycle -- Environmental Assessment -- From the Market to Holistically Optimised Product Concepts -- From Concept to Application -- Final Summary.Development of environmentally friendly products gains an increasing - portance in science and in industry. While product development was strongly dedicated to achieve quality, cost a…
Adaptive Control Systems -- Process Modelling and Identification for Use in Self-tuning Controllers -- Self-tuning PID Controllers -- Algebraic Methods for Self-tuning Controller Design -- Self-tuning Linear Quadratic Controllers -- Computer-aided Design for Self-tuning Controllers -- Application of Self-tuning Controllers.Adaptive control theory has developed significantly over the past few ye…
The Network of Logistics Decisions -- Facility Location in Supply Chain Design -- Distribution Centres in Supply Chain Operations -- Operational Research Methods for Efficient Warehousing -- Models and Methods for Facilities Layout Design from an Applicability to Real-World Perspective -- The Design, Planning, and Optimization of Reverse Logistics Networks -- Models and Methods for Operations i…
Performance Analysis Techniques -- Convexity and Supermodularity -- Worst-Case Analysis -- Average-Case Analysis -- Mathematical Programming Based Bounds -- Inventory Models -- Economic Lot Size Models with Constant Demands -- Economic Lot Size Models with Varying Demands -- Stochastic Inventory Models -- Integration of Inventory and Pricing -- Design and Coordination Models -- Procurement Cont…
Inventory and Supply Chain Models with Forecast Updates -- Examples from Industry -- Inventory Models with Two Consecutive Delivery Modes -- Inventory Models with Two Consecutive Delivery Modes and Fixed Cost -- Inventory Models with Three Consecutive Delivery Modes -- Multiperiod Quantity-Flexibility Contracts -- Purchase Contract Management: Fixed Exercise Cost -- Purchase Contract Management…
Foundations -- Overview of Optimisation Theory -- Fixed Horizon Optimal Control with Constraints -- Receding Horizon Optimal Control with Constraints -- Constrained Linear Quadratic Optimal Control -- Global Characterisation of Constrained Linear Quadratic Optimal Control -- Regional Characterisation of Constrained Linear Quadratic Optimal Control -- Computational Issues in Constrained Optimal …
Computer Simulation of Welding Processes -- Thermal Analysis of Welds -- Evolution of Microstructure Depending on Temperature -- Evolution of Microstructure Depending on Deformations -- Carburized and Hydrogen Diffusion Analysis -- Welded Structures and Applications of Welding in Industrial Fields -- Fracture Mechanics -- Input Data for Computational Welding Mechanics.Computational Welding Mech…
Fundamentals of Product Customization -- Product Customization: Theoretical Basics -- Mass Customization and Complexity -- A Customers’ Needs Model for Mass Customization -- An IT Infrastructure for Effective and Efficient Product Customization -- Customer Oriented Interaction Systems -- A Multi-agent System for Coping with Variety Induced Complexity -- Implementation Scenarios of the Informa…
Unilateral Analysis and Duality -- Monotonic Optimization: Branch and Cut Methods -- Duality Bound Methods in Global Optimization -- General Quadratic Programming -- On Solving Polynomial, Factorable, and Black-Box Optimization Problems Using the RLT Methodology -- Bilevel Programming -- Applications of Global Optimization to Portfolio Analysis -- Optimization Techniques in Medicine -- Global O…
Lectures -- Natural Gas: Fuel or Feedstock? -- Molecular Chemistry of Alkane Activation -- Economics of Alkane Conversion -- Theoretical Basis of the Activation of Light Alkanes -- Surface Organometallic Chemistry of Tantalum: Application to the Metathesis of Alkanes Catalyzed by a Tantalum Hydride Supported on Silica -- The Challenges in Converting Remote Natural Gas to Valuable Products -- Al…