Researchers from South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (Xamk), Finland’s largest university of applied sciences has now visited the Center of Excellence Logistics and IT. André Terharen, Marc Kirberg, Felix Feldmann and Selma Günther welcomed senior lecturers Juhani Heikkinen, R&D managers Jonne Holmen and Petri Kähärä as well as master student Kari Issakainen.
The Center of Excellence Logistics and IT hosted the renowned scientist Prof. George A. Zsidisin from Virginia Commonwealth University in mid-April.
Around 100 representatives from science and practice, from the fields of production, logistics and spatial and traffic planning met at the end of March in Dortmund to discuss the future of logistics, production and traffic and to present new strategies and solutions as well as innovative technologies.
The TU Dortmund will host On 27 and 28 March 2019 the 4th Interdisciplinary Conference on Production, Logistics and Traffic (ICPLT) within the framework of the Center of Excellence Logistics and IT and together with the TU Darmstadt. The topic of the conference is “Commercial Transport – Essential Link for Production Logistics and Society”.
Patrick Fahim, a PhD student at Delft University of Technology, worked for three months at the Center of Excellence Logistics and IT as part of a research trip and gathered important findings for his doctoral topic “Physical Internet”.
At the “Researchers´ BBQ” at the end of September, the Center of Excellence Logistics and IT welcomed around 40 participants to the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics. The focus of the scientific part was on the topic of “Founding”.