G-SCOP - Laboratory
A multidisciplinary laboratory
G-SCOP synergizes multiple disciplines to address the scientific challenges posed by the transformations in the industrial world. The laboratory's scope ranges from product design to production systems management, leveraging strong optimization skills.
Scientific challenges
Uncertainty and instability
The demanding and volatile requirements of consumers and the unpredictability of competition are essential characteristics of the current industrial landscape. This imposes new scientific approaches to the optimization and management of production systems, as well as to product design problems.
Collaboration of distributed actors
More and more actors must collaborate to meet customer needs. These actors, often geographically distributed, may have different industrial backgrounds, professions, and cultures. This leads to new research questions in both product design and system management, questions arising from the complexity of the system due to the number, distance, and disparity of the actors.
Knowledge engineering
The outsourcing of a portion of the company's activities, the development of co-design, and increased employee turnover are leading companies to consider the implementation of true knowledge engineering.
Upstream research in optimization
When discussing the design and optimized management of production systems, the contribution of powerful mathematical tools seems obvious. All these techniques for modeling, optimizing, and evaluating the performance of new problems make upstream research essential to help create powerful optimization tools.
A stronger interdisciplinary approach
These challenges have led us to propose a new stage in research on the design and management of products and production systems. This new stage leads to deeper explorations at the core of the disciplines; however, the emergence of new topics at the interface of disciplines also requires even stronger collaborations between these disciplines.