Innovate & Elevate: University Insights for Business Transformation
A public presentation for academics & businesses - all are welcome
Any questions, please contact: ktp@port.ac.uk
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the, we are hosting an online forum event each month to showcase how our academic experts can support your business.
Innovation drives the growth of organisations, whether they are industrial enterprises, service providers, social enterprises, charities or public sector organisations. In our, we will explore how companies utilise expert knowledge from the university to advance business performance and de-risk investment for research and development.
Join us for this series of short, valuable online forums designed to harness the dynamic ecosystem of academia and industry collaborations. Learn how the latest technological advancements or management practices can meet your business needs and support your company鈥檚 growth.
Intelligent Operational Optimisation
In today's fast-paced and increasingly complex business environment, the right strategic choices can make all the difference.
At the May instalment of our Innovate & Elevate online forum, we will be exploring how companies are transforming complex decisions into competitive advantage using data-driven intelligence.
This will include:
馃攩 Facility Location Strategy: How data models and decision analysis help to optimise a company鈥檚 site selection, driving cost savings and service efficiency.
馃攩 Robot Placement Optimisation: A scalable framework for strategic asset positioning that boosts performance, safety, and ROI.
馃攩 AI-powered Risk Index: Discover how data fusion and AI can elevate risk analysis, enabling smarter, faster decisions in uncertain environments.
馃攩 Intelligent Supply Chains: Built to be resilient, efficient, and sustainable; covering performance frameworks, risk-aware network design, and inventory location strategies to optimise resource use and adaptability in uncertain markets.
馃攩 Sustainable Logistics Systems: Leveraging data, AI, and advanced modelling to optimise routing, resource allocation, and responsiveness; driving efficiency, cost savings, and agility across the supply chain.
By harnessing intelligent methods for planning and strategy, companies can reduce costs, improve efficiency, enhance customer satisfaction and grow to scale sustainably 馃尡
Presenters
Dr. Xiang Song is currently a deputy director of the Centre of Operational Research and Logistics (CORL) in the Faculty of Technology and a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Physics, 91社区.
Xiang's research interest is the development of novel optimisation models and computational algorithms to solve complex practical problems, including supply chain management, routing and loading problems, heuristics/Metaheuristic algorithm design, and multi-objective optimisation.
Xiang has a number of publications in several international journals and is currently working on several projects including FTZ funded by DfT (拢29M, 2020 - 2024), and Drone Swarm for Unmanned Inspection of Wind Turbines (Dr-Suit) funded by UKRI (拢1.2M, 2020 - 2022).
With extensive research experience in supply chain management and optimisation, Xiang is an expert in this field.
Ashraf is a Professor of Operations and Decision Analysis at the 91社区, UK.
His area of research is in reliability engineering and maintenance systems as well as decision analysis. He is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society (ORS), a Fellow of the IET and a Chartered Engineer.
Ashraf has published over 150-refereed papers in professional journals and international conferences proceedings. He has also published a book on Learning from Failures: Decision Analysis of Major Disasters (2014), and co-authored a book on Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.
He has recieved four awards: 1999, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2019 鈥淗ighly Commended鈥 awards for five published papers from the Literati Club, MCB Press. He has completed a number of EU projects and has extensive experience in crisis, resilience and risk management.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact ktp@port.ac.uk.
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