Planning and designing competitive and environmentally friendly products and production processes presents a challenge for industrial production. Besides the usual business objectives, the scarcity of raw materials also makes increasing demands on resource efficiency. This entails special planning and logistics requirements.

The focus of our research activities is the cost-effective and ecology-oriented design of production and logistics systems. In addition, measures for the prevention, reduction and recycling of waste materials and waste products as well as waste disposal are researched on organisational as well as industry-wide levels.

We are an interdisciplinary team: Representatives from business administration, business informatics, industrial engineering, geo-ecology and forest science all research and teach these topics:

• Modelling and optimisation of production and logistical systems
  
• Sustainable use of biomass energy
  
• New business models for sustainable development (e.g., chemical leasing, life cycle costing)
  
• Industrial risk management

The Chair of Production and Logistics offers Bachelor's and Master's courses of the Faculty of Economic Sciences with a wide range of lectures and complementary courses.
Seminars, practice lectures, tutorials and excursions provide many opportunities to study current issues in depth. Bachelor's and Master's theses are undertaken and supervised in conjunction with current research projects and/or in co-operation with companies.
Detailld information on our study programmes can be found in column "Teaching".