Design of a maintenance Performance Measurement System for Performance Based Contracts: A case study of maintenance at the Zor-f plant

Improving tray registration performance at EPS Barendrecht

Euro Pool System operates the largest pool of returnable assets in the world, with over 200 million trays circulating across Europe’s retail supply chains bringing fruit and vegetables from growers and food processing companies to retail Distribution Centres, and from there to retailers’ stores. EPS desires to maximise the number of annual tray...

Trunking Logistics for an E-Grocer during Growth

Design of a capacity model for the in- and out-feed process of ULDs at KLM Cargo's future warehouse system

Ontwerp en configuratie van een nieuw productieproces voor KROHNE Altometer vanuit een intern transport en logistiek perspectief

Redesign the cool chain for air transport of perishable goods by KLM Cargo

Marine litter in port areas - developing a propagation model

This research focuses on the marine litter propagation in port environments, where several aspects influence the marine litter movements. Many studies in literature confirm that the biggest part of solid litter on a global scale is transported via rivers, and originated from land bases sources. The items vary in many materials but plastics...

Impact of reallocating hangar capacity on base maintenance delivery performance at KLM E&M

The primary purpose of this research was to gain insight into the impact of the reallocation of hangar capacity on the delivery performance of base maintenance operations at KLM E&M. In order to accomplish the research objective, general KPI's used in aircraft maintenance organisations were identified, of which the delivery performance of the...

Lowering the Turnaround time for Aircraft component MRO services: A case study at KLM Engineering & Maintenance

In this thesis a framework is built to find flow improvement measures to lower the turnaround time for aircraft component MRO processes. This framework is tested in a case study at KLM E&M. The main research question that is answered in this research is: What flow improvement measures can be used to lower the turnaround time of components in...

Methodical design of baggage handling system concepts at airports

Although the importance of baggage handling systems is not widely recognised by its many daily users, they are a critical part of airports. A passenger only experiences handing in baggage and reclaiming it, but there is more than meets the eye. In these complex systems, baggage is collected from multiple sources, sorted, stored and redistributed...

Reducing the Turnaround Time of In House Repairs of Aircraft Engine MRO Services

Modelling route choice of inland shipping vessels in the port of Rotterdam

Squeeze force distribution optimization for pipelay tensioners

On Cost Reduction in Unilever's Supply Chain and the Interpretation and Implementation thereof

Unilever is the market leader in the fast moving consumer goods industry. It is constantlyseeking ways to effectively use its resources. The company approached me and requested a decision tool which could determine the 'switch-over' point between single and double stacking of pallets (the so-called stacking configuration). The model was to...

Deep-Sea Mining: A road map to positioning in the production chain

The research is done on the production chain of deep-sea mining. Concepts for vertical transport and horizontal transport are analyzed and compared to each other. Also, the possibilities for offshore mineral treatment are discussed. The thesis discovers the decisive variables in production chain decision making and builds a road map for...