Servitization in the Shipbuilding Industry: A research into the relation of user profiles and service contracts of high speed transport vessels

Research in the field of servitization as a business strategy is emerging since its first appearance by Vandermerwe, 1988 and later but parallel developments by Goedkoop, 1999. Servitization is the act of selling complete packages of goods and after sales services. Various industry examples present successes with the implementation of the...

The influence of risk on the design of a warehouse loading area: Development of a parametric model to evaluate logistic design choices for the warehouse loading area

Heineken's goal with respect to safety is to reduce the number of accidents to zero. Such a drastic reduction can only be achieved by considering safety as early as in the design phase, when most impact can be made. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to enable the easy generation of different design concepts and evaluate them with regard...

Designing Repair Processes by Introducing a Return Quality Control Model: A Method for Sustainable Initial Repair Process Design

An increasingly dynamic and competitive market forces MRO businesses to improve on efficiency and sustainability of remanufacturing processes. Present research focus on current process states and recovery, improvement and control of process phases beyond initial design without inclusion of return quality. This research addresses a method for...

Factors affecting container transshipment volumes at ports:: A data driven holistic modelling approach

In 20 years, from 1996 to 2016, global cumulative container port throughput had an average annual growth rate of 6.3%. Furthermore, the average global transshipment incidence increased from 11% in 1980 to a stable 27% in 2017. This change in transshipment market dynamics has led to opportunities for potential port investments or disinvestments....

Design of a Motion Monitoring System for Unmanned Offshore Topside Installation based on real-time Visual Object Tracking using drones and fixed cameras on an SSCV

Imagine standing under a load with a weight equivalent to more than 5,000 Tesla’s model X. Panicking is not an option and you need to be fully focused on completing a crucial task. There is no option to leave this precarious situation and your contribution is vital to the success of a multi-million dollar project. Sounds frightening, right?...

Optimizing Packaging Availability for Reverse Logistics: A case study at ASML

Background: The domain of Reverse Logistics, which is lately coming more in the forefront, will serve as the focal point of this project. In the electronics industry, the importance of facilitating safe movements is constantly increasing. In order to prevent escalating the chances of damage, products have to be transported with adequate...

HEINEKEN Flexbrewery: Analysis of the impact of small batches on the supply chain and simulation of different replenishment strategies

The last years craft beer is becoming more and more popular. Heineken responses to this trend in different ways. The last gap in this strategy is offering local brands to the market. In order to do so they have to reduce their batch size. This research looked into the impact of smaller batches on the supply chain. The first conclusion is that...

Re-Design of a Current State Push Based Towards a Future State Pull Based Logistic System: A case study into the flower auction order handling process at Royal FloraHolland Aalsmeer by discrete event simulation

The performance of the logistical process from the flower auction at Royal FloraHolland is under pressure. Due to decreased transaction sizes more handling is required to process the same volume and this results in lower performance. The information system used to coordinate the process is based on a fixed relation between auction and...

Improvement in asset management using a lean perspective: The contribution of lean in the maturity models of asset management

Advanced maintenance operations: For the Delft Offshore Turbine

This research aims to develop a maintenance strategy for large offshore DOT wind farms to reduce the costs for O&M. The strategy consists of a logistical solution in the form of a stock keeping scenario and a mechanism to exchange parts of the drive train. Requirements for the maintenance strategy is to be innovative, in order to stand out...