Eindhoven University of Technology has a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Researcher on
Strategic Lifecycle Management of Capital Assets within the Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control (OPAC) group of the School of Industrial Engineering.
The postdoc position is part of the MARCONI (Maritime Remote Control Tower for Service Logistics Innovation) project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). MARCONI aims to develop and demonstrate innovative service logistics concepts. The ambition is to demonstrate the actual functioning of a remote service logistic control tower with the long-term goal of developing and exploiting a scalable supply chain function in the maritime world.
The research will be on the lifecycle management of highly complex capital assets. Various technologies that underlie many components in such systems have life cycles that are shorter than the life cycle of the systems they are incorporated in. Life cycle mismatches result in high sustainment costs especially for systems with a long life cycle. Furthermore, a component may become operationally inefficient (e.g., high fuel consumption) or may not even be allowed in the system (e.g., new environmental restrictions) although it has not reached the end of its life cycle yet. This research aims to identify the optimal lifecycle management strategy in order to minimize the gap between the performance needed from a system and the performance delivered by the system.
In the project, there will be a close collaboration with the other partners of the MARCONI project: Boskalis, Damen, Gordian, IHC, Loodswezen, Maastricht University, NLDA, Thales, RH Marine, Royal Netherlands Navy and the University of Twente.
For more information (including the application procedure), please see the attachment or click on the link:
https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/1-postdoctoral-researcher-569449.htmlInterested applicants who will be attending the POMS 2019 Annual Conference in Washington D.C. are encouraged to contact Dr. Alp Akcay (a.e.akcay@tue.nl) for a preliminary interview.------------------------------
Alp Akcay
Assistant Professor
Eindhoven University of Technology
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