Welcome to our Lab

The main focus of Production and Service Systems Lab is to develop rigorous engineering theory for modeling, analysis, design and improvement of production and healthcare delivery systems, and apply the results in practice. All the problems studied are important issues originated from industry, after abstraction and theoretical derivations, their solutions have been successfully implemented on the factory floor or in hospitals and clinics.

 

Textbook: Production Systems Engineering, J. Li and S.M. Meerkov, Springer, 2009

 

Selected recent projects:

• Robust production systems: theory and applications (NSF)
• Quality management in battery manufacturing (DOE)
• Modeling and analysis of rapid response operations in acute care (NSF)
• Real time production control and scheduling (GM)
• Primary care redesign (UW Health)
• Key peformance indicators in smart manufacturing (NIST)

Implementation examples:

• Powertrain manufacturing: throughput improvement (15%), inventory reduction (70%)
• Pharmacy: delivery time reduction (50%)