ABOUT IE LAB NTUA

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OUR LAB

The Industrial Engineering Laboratory (IE Lab NTUA) is an officially established laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens, founded in 1962 and falls under the Sector Industrial Engineering & Research, School of Mechanical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). IE Lab NTUA is active in European funded research projects, while also being a key partner of Greek industrial enterprises for many organization, administration, production and operational activities. In addition, the Industrial Engineering Laboratory serves as the link between academic knowledge, taught at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the NTUA, and their practical application in leading industrial enterprises. IE Lab NTUA supports the deployment, the realization and the growth of the research priorities of NTUA mainly through seeking, pursuing and acquiring research funding via the competitive calls for research proposals that the European Commission had instigated. IE Lab NTUA provides research opportunities to postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers to conduct, in conjunction with the academic staff, state-of-the-art research.

OUR MISSION

The mission of IE Lab NTUA is summarized in the following:

Promoting science in the fields it is involved.
Conduct basic and applied research, independently or under funded research programs.
Providing services to industrial users and private or public organizations, in the form of performance measurement, analysis, processing and interpretation of the results, the drafting of reports and studies.
The diffusion of the knowledge through the publication of scientific articles and books.
The organization of workshops, symposia and meetings with scientists from Greece and abroad.
The collaboration with academic institutions and research centers, institutes and other scientific organizations that have similar or complementary interests.
Cooperation with private companies and public institutions with a view to the practical application of scientific research.

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OUR RESEARCH INTERESTS

IE Lab NTUA offers a plethora of services for research and innovation projects including:

Business Process Management and Re-engineering (BPM & BPR). Enterprise Modeling and Business Process Modeling regarding the development and application of process and system modeling methods and tools, the development of methodological frameworks for the application of business modeling, as well as practical applications.
Development of Business Reference Models for use as Business Blueprints in the introduction and implementation of information systems in enterprises of different productive sectors.
Wide knowledge and use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Warehouse Management (WM) and Content Management (CM) Systems.
Project Management and Business Plan Development to support innovative research initiatives in the context of implementing strategic decisions.
Requirement and Specification Analysis for the selection and implementation of information systems in businesses and public organizations.
Development of analytical, heuristic and meta-heuristic local search and artificial intelligence algorithms to address broad theoretical and practical business research problems.
Integration of sophisticated business research algorithms into Decision Support Systems (DSS).