Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) - PDEng, In cooperation with Océ

The School of Industrial Engineering is one of the longest-established IE Schools in Europe, with a strong presence in the international research, design, and education community, especially in the field of Operations Management and Operations Research. OM and OR are at the core of the undergraduate IE program. The graduate programs (MSc, PDEng, and PhD) in Operations Management & Logistics attract top-level candidates from all over the world. PDEng candidates enroll in the two-year Logistics Management Systems designers program and participate in industrial activities, among others with members of the European Supply Chain Forum.

Océ is one of the most successful builders of professional office printing equipment in Europe. It has developed over the last decade an excellent integrated spare parts supply system. With the takeover of Océ by Canon, exiting new possibilities emerge for Océ for entering new markets and further developing the Océ products as professional printing systems. However, integrating Océ into the Canon organization requires a redesign of the supply chains, in order to bring them into accordance with the main lines of how Canon allocates responsibilities to organizational entities. This also applies to the service spare part supply system. The Canon organization structure is characterized by its strong emphasis on market responsiveness and short communication lines to end-users. This design project aims at identifying and implementing the changes in the current Océ spare parts control system that are needed to bring the system into accordance with the Canon organization, while maintaining as much as possible of the advantages of integrated control, thereby combining high service with low costs.

The OPAC group of the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology is looking for a PDEng candidate to perform this top level science based design project at Océ. The OPAC group conducts design projects in industry, with specific emphasis on
Planning and Control in Manufacturing, Services, and Supply Chains;
Distribution Logistics;
Maintenance and Reliability;
Finance and Accounting, oriented towards operational processes.

Design projects are result-oriented and require the development, testing and implementation of tools or techniques that improve the performance of an operational system in practice. All design projects are embedded in SAI, the 3TU Institute for Design, and in Beta, the KNAW-recognized research school for Operations Management & Logistics.

Tasks
The PDEng candidate is expected to follow 10 months of courses in which design capabilities are developed, and to perform a design project at Océ under the supervision of prof.dr.ir. G.J. van Houtum.

Project Background
Océ has been taken over by Canon and its sales and service processes have been integrated into Canon's. As a result, for the Océ manufacturing sites, market and sales visibility is reduces, requiring higher supply responsiveness, however without too high increase of supply costs. This project aims at the development and implementation of high responsive-low costs; Océ spare parts supply system, feeding into the Canon regional sales organizations.

The project will be carried out in the department PPP-Logistics of Océ, under the supervision of Roger Vliegen and Niels Houben.

Closing Date; 15-11-2015

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